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GULCEMAL

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Built as an iron passenger vessel under yard No 85 by Harland & Wolf, Belfast for the White Star Line.
15 July 1874 launched under the name GERMANIC, one sister the BRITANNIC, she were designed by Sir E.J.Harland.
Tonnage 5.008 gross, 3.150 net, dim. 138.68 x 13.77 x 10.26m.
Twin funnels, four masts rigged for sails.
Powered by compound steam engines 4.900 ihp., manufactured by Maudsley, Son & Field, Lambeth, one screw, speed 16 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 220 first, 1.500 third class, crew 135.
24 April 1875 completed, building cost £200.000.

20 May 1875 (other source gives 30 May) she sailed for her maiden voyage from Liverpool via Queenstown (Cobh) to New York.
In July 1875 and April 1877 she made record passages between Queenstown and New York, and in February 1876 between New York and Queenstown.
1895 Triple expansion engine fitted by Harland & Wolff, an extra deck fitted, funnels lengthened, and she was modernized, rigging on the mast were removed. Tonnage increased to 5.066 tons.
13 February 1899, she capsized at her berth in New York due to the weight of the snow and ice which had accumulated on her upperworks during a bad blizzard.

She was salvaged and resumed Liverpool- Queenstown – New York sailings on 07 June 1899.
23 September 1903 she made her last voyage for the White Star Line.

23 April 1904 she was chartered by the American Line and sailed for her first voyage from Southampton via Cherbourg to New York, on that date.
Her sixth and last voyage on this service commenced on 02 October 1904.

05 January 1905 sold to the Dominion Line and renamed OTTAWA.
Refitted to carry 250 second class and 1.500 third class passengers.
27 April 1905 she commenced Liverpool – Quebec – Montreal service.
02 September 1909 she made her last voyage on this service, after her return laid up.
15 March 1911 she sailed from Liverpool for Constantinople, renamed GUL DJEMAL bought by the Turkish Government as a transport, managed by Administration de Nav. A Vapeur Ottoman, Istanbul.

Later that year she carried Turkish troops to the war in Yemen.

10 May 1915 torpedoed by the British submarine HMS E-14, under command of Lieut. Cdr. Boyle in the Sea of Marmora near the island of Kalolimni. She was hit by two torpedoes in the bow but did not sink. At that time the GUL DJEMAL carried about 2500 Turkish troops from Istanbul to the Gallipoli Peninsula, she sank down to the superstructure. Most of her troops drowned.

She was refloated and towed by two Bosporus ferries the No. 26 and 46 to Istanbul, where she was repaired.
1918 She carried 1.500 German soldiers to Dover, what did give much confusion, all military personnel was disarmed and send to Germany.

06 October 1920 made her first voyage from Constantinople to New York; she was the first passenger steamer flying the Turkish flag to cross the North Atlantic. She was sailing for the Ottoman -America Line. She made a call at Gibraltar on 21 October and reached New York on 31 October with on board 46 first, 135 second and 775 steerage passengers.
She stayed in New York till 25 May 1921 before she returned to Constantinople, Varna, Bulgaria and Constanza, Romania.
09 November 1921 she arrived for the last time in New York, leaving a fortnight later.
1928 Her name revised to GULCEMAL and transferred to Turkiye Seyrisefain Idaresi.
1949 In use as a store hulk at Istanbul.
She was finally scrapped in 1950 at Messina.

On Turkey 2000 150.000L sg?, scott?

Source: North Atlantic Seaways by Bonsor. http://www.fortunecity.com/littleitaly/ ... shipgh.htm
http://www.greatoceanliners.net/germanic.html

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