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CARONIA 1905

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue May 03, 2016 7:53 pm

Built as a passenger-cargo vessel under yard no 362 by John Brown & Co., Clydebank, Scotland for the Cunard SS Co. Ltd., Liverpool.
13 July 1904 launched as the CARONIA one sister the CARMANIA.
Tonnage 19,687 grt, 10,306 nrt, dim.198.12 (bpp.) x 22.01 x 12.25m.
Powered by twin quadruple expansion Q4cyl steam engines, manufactured by shipsbuilder, 1501 nhp., twin shafts, speed 16 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 300 first, 350 second and 900 third class passengers.
February 1905 completed.

RMS CARONIA was a British ocean liner, launched on 13 July 1904. She was built for Cunard by John Brown & Co. of Glasgow. She was the only ship in the Cunard fleet to be named after an American, being named after Caro Brown, granddaughter of Cunard's New York agent. She left Liverpool on her maiden voyage to New York on 25 February 1905. A successful 1906 cruise from New York to the Mediterranean led to CARONIA's being used for cruising frequently in the coming years.
On 14 April 1912 CARONIA sent first ice warning at 09:00 to RMS TITANIC reporting "bergs, growlers and field ice".
CARONIA was briefly placed on Cunard's Boston service in 1914, but the start of World War I caused her to be requisitioned as an armed merchant cruiser. She was hired as an AMC on 02 August 1914 and fitted out at Liverpool with 8 – 4.7 inch guns. 08 August 1914 commissioned as HMS CARONINA. 10 October 1914 she sailed from Liverpool for the North Atlantic patrol duties attached to the North American and West Indian Station. March 1915 refitted and rearmed with 8 – 6 inch guns. 22 September 1916 decommissioned, and converted for trooping duties in the Indian Ocean between India and South and East Africa, returning in 1918 to the Liverpool-New York run after the War.
11 January 1919 sailed from Liverpool for the first post-war commercial voyage
In March 1924 CARONIA was converted to burn oil instead of coal.
After returning to service, she sailed on a number of different routes, including:
New York/Boston from Liverpool
New York from London
New York from Hamburg (1922)
Quebec from Liverpool (1924)
New York from Havana
Her last voyage, from London to New York was on 12 September 1932, after which she was sold to be disassembled. Initially sold to Hughes Bolckow for demolition at Blyth, she was resold December 1932 to Kobe Kaiun K.K. registered at Osaka, renamed, TAISEIYO MARU and sailed to Osaka, where she was scrapped in 1933.
Turbine Experiment
CARONIA was fitted with the older quadruple-expansion engine technology; whilst the CARMANIA had turbines and proved to be the more economical of the two liners

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_CARONIA_(1904) http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?of ... el=CARONIA Armed Merchant Cruisers 1878-1945 by Osborne, Spong & Grover.
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