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From: "martin navarro" <>
Subject: Re: [TSL] SS Sierra
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 18:52:43 +0800
References: <200404300141.i3U1fVxR005185@mail.rootsweb.com>


Hi.
I have a reasonably good photo of Sierra . If you are interested I can send
you a jpeg copy off list.

Martin Navarro, Perth.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis & Mellany" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 9:41 AM
Subject: RE: [TSL] SS Sierra


> Thank you!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Finch [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 2:28 AM
> To: Dennis & Mellany
> Cc: Sue Swiggum;
> Subject: Re: [TSL] SS Sierra
>
> Hi Mellany,
>
> The SIERRA was an American ship. Details -
>
> SIERRA / GDANSK 1900
> 5,989 gross tons, length 400.0ft x beam 50.2ft, two funnels, two masts,
twin
> screw, speed 17 knots.
> Built 1900 by W. Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia for Oceanic SS Co, San
Francisco
> (Spreckels Line), she made her maiden voyage in Sep.1900 between San
> Francisco, Honolulu, Auckland and Sydney. 1907 laid up. 1910 transferred
to
> San Francisco - Honolulu service. 1915 San Francisco - Sydney service.
> Jul.1918 - Sep.1919 became US Navy troopship and then returned to lay up.
> 1920 sold to Green Star SS Co, New York. 1921 sold to Polish American
> Navigation Corp, New York, one funnel removed, speed now 14 knots, renamed
> GDANSK. Used on the NY - Danzig service until 1922 when she reverted to
the
> name SIERRA, owned by Walter A. Rush, NY. 1923 repurchased by Oceanic SS
Co,
> refitted and 1924 resumed service San Francisco - Honolulu - Sydney. In
1934
> control of the Oceanic SS Co passed to the Matson Line and the SIERRA
sailed
> for Japan under the name SIERRA MARU and was scrapped. [North Star to
> Southern Cross by J. Maber] [Register of Merchant Ships Completed 1900 by
> Starke / Schell]
>
> regards
> Ted
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis & Mellany" <>
> To: "'Ted Finch'" <>
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 2:19 AM
> Subject: RE: [TSL] SS Schiller
>
>
> > Hi Ted,
> >
> > Do you have any information on a ship named the SS Sierra that sailed
out
> of
> > Australia? My cousin forwarded me some information about my
ggrandmother
> > that she departed Sydney in 1904 bound for US or Canada with an arrival
> date
> > of July 12th, 1904 (port unknown).
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Mellany
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ted Finch [mailto:]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 2:26 PM
> > To:
> > Subject: Re: [TSL] SS Schiller
> >
> > Russ,
> >
> > Details of the SCHILLER at
> > http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/ShipsS.html
> >
> > regards
> > Ted
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Russell Wood" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:00 PM
> > Subject: [TSL] SS Schiller
> >
> >
> > > I am researching my CAVERLEY ancestors. I have found two relevant
> > newspaper articles regarding the Steamship Schiller, leaving New York
> (bound
> > for Hamburg). Both articles were published in the NY Times in 1875.
The
> > first article is titled: "Passengers Sailed". It appeared in the April
> 28th
> > issue. Miss. and Mrs. Caverley are both listed as passengers. On May
9,
> > 1875 another article concerning the Schiller appeared, it was titled:
> > "Scenes At The Company Office". It gave an account of the "terrible
> > disaster which befell the Schiller". Among the missing were,"a Mrs.
> > Caverley, who went to Europe with her daughter on a pleasure excursion.
> Mrs
> > Caverley is well known in New York and Washington society as a very
> > brilliant and accomplished lady. She is a daughter of Judge Crosby, of
> > Lowell, Mass and widow of the late R.B. Caverley, formerly Secretary of
> the
> > Legation to Peru." Can anyone provide further information on this
vessel,
> > her fate and that of the passengers? Thank !
> > > you. Russ Wood
> > >
> > >
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