Name: | MIRANDA |
Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 24/05/1884 |
Completed: | 22/07/1884 |
Builder: | J Wigham Richardson & Co |
Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 174 |
Dimensions: | 1158grt, 734nrt, 1100dwt, 220.0 x 31.2 x 16.0ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (30 & 56 x 36ins), 180nhp |
Engines by: | J Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.8knots (trials) |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 87995 |
History: | |
22/07/1884 | New York, Newfoundland & Halifax SS Co Ltd (CT Bowring, managers), Liverpool |
09/08/1894 | Sank |
Comments: | Accommodation for 60 x 1st Class passengers |
Contract price £20250, Loss £1935-10s-9d | |
New York, Newfoundland & Halifax SS Co Ltd.- The Red Cross Line | |
1885: She made the round trip in a record time of 10 days 8 hours | |
1885: During the summer months was used to take Americans on cruises to the Artic | |
1885: Chartered to transport 60,000 rifles for the Turkish Army from the USA | |
20/06/1886: Stranded by Point Judith Light, Rhode Island | |
07/07/1894: Sailed from New York on an Artic cruise, during which time she suffered some damage when touching an iceberg | |
Later in the month when leaving Sukkertoppen, to cruise up the west coast of Greenland, she hit a reef and had to be abandoned | |
Passengers were transferred and the ship was patched up and taken in tow for New York | |
09/08/1894: Foundered under tow |