Name: | ST OLAF or SAINT OLAF or ST OLAV |
Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
Launched | 06/04/1871 |
Completed: | 30/06/1871 |
Builder: | J Wigham Richardson & Co |
Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 70 |
Dimensions: | 2002grt, 1259nrt, 293.9 x 35.2 x 25.2ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (37 & 70 x 36ins), 245nhp, 900ihp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland - No 66 |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.0knots (trials) |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
07/1871 | Peter Jebsen, Bergen |
30/06/1871 | Norwegian American Steamship Co, Bergen |
1880 | A/S St Olaf (Harloff & Boe), Bergen |
1899 | HM Wrangell, Haugesund |
07/1903 | Broken up |
Comments: | Accommodation for 30 x 1st Class and 500 x emigrant passengers |
Contract Price £34,300; Profit £1070-14s-6d | |
N-E Marine records show this engine was intended for a vessel named SUCCESS | |
06/07/1871: Sailed from Bergen on her maiden voyage and arrived 15 days later at New York with 256 passengers | |
Her normal route would be Christiania (Oslo) – Bergen - Newcastle - London - New York | |
17/05/1875: Last trans-Atlantic voyage, then transferred to the North Sea routes | |
07/1903: Broken up at Genoa |
Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 08/04/1871