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Tunisian

 
Allan Line
 


Image of ss Tunisian (Allan Line)



Length: 500.6 ft.
Breadth: 59.2 ft.Breadth
Draft (or Depth):
Tonnage: 10,576 tons (gross), 6,802 (net)
Engines: 2 triple expansion, 6 cyl., (2) 27", (2) 46", (2) 76" x 54" stroke
Speed: 16 knots
Builder: A. Stephens & Sons, Ltd., Glasgow (Yard No. 384)
Launched: January 17, 1900
Maiden Voyage: April 5, 1900
Disposition: Fall 1928 (Scrapped at Genoa).
Particulars:








Port of Registry: Glasgow, Scotland
Flag of Registry: British
Funnel color: Red; white band below black top
Company flag: Blue-white-red vertical stripes, blue at hoist, red at fly; long red pennant above flag
Signal Letters: R N L C
Wireless call letters: M T N
Details: Steel hull, one funnel, two masts, twin screws, three decks, shelter deck, electric lights, wireless


 

Relationship to Titanic disaster / inquiries.

April 10, 1912

Eastbound, St. John, New Brunswick to Liverpool. Reported heavy ice in the vicinity of an area that was later the disaster site.


Data:

January 17, 1900

Launched.

March 31, 1900

Sea trials.

April 5, 1900

Maiden voyage Liverpool - Halifax - Portland, Maine.

May 10, 1900

First voyage Liverpool - Quebec - Montreal

1907-1913

Five charter voyages for Canadian Pacific, St. John, N.B. - Liverpool.

September 4, 1914

Last voyage regular route, eastbound return as Canadian troop transport.

November 1914 - February 1915

Accommodation ship for German POWs off Ryde, Isle of Wight.

1915

Trooping voyages to Bombay and Gallipoli.

April, 1917

Returned to Allan Line.

May 1920 - Mar 1921

New boilers, oil fuel conversion, Cabin, 310, Third. 736

November 16, 1922

Renamed Marburn, Liverpool - St. John run.

April 6, 1928

Last voyage Antwerp - Southampton - St. John.

May 9, 1928

Laid up at Southampton.

Fall 1928

Scrapped at Genoa.

 


Courtesy: John P. Eaton. Used with permission.