Cross Channel and Short Sea Ferries by Ambrose Greenway
Author:Ambrose Greenway
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / History
ISBN: 9781473845060
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books
Published: 2013-11-29T16:00:00+00:00
Thomas Wilson, Sons & Co of Hull was the largest privately-owned shipping company in the world in the early years of the twentieth century and ran numerous services to northern Europe and Scandinavia, among which were regular passenger services to Trondheim, Bergen, Oslo (via Kristiansand), Gothenburg and Copenhagen. With its ships making no more than 13–15 knots, voyages lasted more than twenty-four hours, but this changed in May 1910 when the company received the 3,326-grt twin-funnelled Eskimo for its Oslo service from the local yard of Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. The largest ship yet built for North Sea service, she measured 331 x 45 ft and was driven by a pair of quadruple-expansion engines supplied with steam by four boilers. Total power output was 5,000 shp and she averaged 17.3 knots on an eight-hour trial; 16 knots being sufficient to complete the open sea part of her voyage to Kristiansand in around twenty-two hours. Her design incorporated a raised forecastle and long raised bridge deck and she could carry 150 first- and fifty second-class passengers with a further 500 emigrants in third class, each class having its dining saloon. In June 1911, she was requisitioned by the Admiralty to carry official guests at the Coronation Naval Review and was taken up again in November 1914 and converted to an armed merchant cruiser in Liverpool. Her armament consisted of four 6-in and two 2-pounder guns and she was commissioned into the 10th Cruiser Squadron as HMS Eskimo. Her comparatively small size proved insufficient for patrolling North Atlantic waters in all weathers and she was returned to her owners in July 1915. On 26 July 1916 she was captured off Risør, some fifteen miles south-east of Arendal, by the German auxiliary cruiser Möwe, which had followed her down the Oslofjord posing as the neutral steamer Vineta. She was taken to Swinemünde and converted to a naval netlayer, which involved stripping her to the weather deck abaft her second funnel. Returned to her owners in 1919, she was sold in 1921 to Marseilles owner Compagnie de Navigation Paquet and employed as a cargo ship in the North Africa trade until broken up in Germany in 1923.
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