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From: "Ted Finch" <>
Subject: Re: [TSL] Re: TheShipsList-D Digest V00 #532
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 07:25:29 +0100


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From: Randy Braunreiter <>
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Subject: [TSL] Re: TheShipsList-D Digest V00 #532


> looking for info on SS FRIESLAND SAILED TO AMERICA JULY 1900


Here is info on the FRIESLAND.

7,116 gross tons, length 437ft x beam 51.2ft, clipper stem, one funnel,
four masts (rigged for sail), steel hull, single screw and a speed of 15
knots. Accommodation for 226-1st, 102-2nd and 600-3rd class passengers.
Built by J & G.Thomson, Glasgow and launched for the Red Star Line on 15th
Aug.1889. Her maiden voyage from Antwerp to New York started on 7th
Dec.1889 and her last voyage on this service started on 10th Jan.1903.
Chartered to the American Line and refitted to carry 300-2nd and 600-3rd
class passengers, she started Liverpool - Philadelphia sailings on 26th
Mar.1903 and made her last voyage on this route in May 1911. Sold to
Italian owners, and renamed LA PLATA, she had two of her masts removed and
was scrapped the following year.[North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor,
vol.2,p.853]

There is a photo of the ship in North Atlantic Seaway, vol.2 ISBN
0-905824-01-6

For photographs, try -

Steamship Historical Society of America, Langsdale Library, University of
Baltimore, 1420 Maryland Avenue, Baltimore MD, 21201.

regards
Ted

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