Victorian

Allan Line

Length:	520.0 ft.
Breadth:	60.4 ft.
Draft (or Depth):	38.0 ft. (depth)
Tonnage:	10,635 (gross); 8,459 (underdeck); 6,747 (net)
Engines:	3 steam turbines (15,000 shaft horsepower)
Speed:	18 knots
Builder:	Workman, Clark & Co., Ltd., Belfast. (Yard no. 206)
Launched:	August 25, 1904
Maiden Voyage:	March 23, 1905
Disposition:	April 17, 1929 - Sold to breakers.
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: H C F M Wireless call letters: M V N Details: Registration No.: 121216 Steel hull, 1 funnel, 4 masts; triple screw, turbine engines; schooner rig; 3 decks; refrigeration machinery; submarine signal; wireless; accommodation: First 345; second 344; third 3,000

Relationship to Titanic disaster / inquiries.

Westbound, Liverpool to St. John, New Brunswick. Victorian received news of the disaster through a transmission from Carpathia via Baltic on 15 April at 10:30 a.m. The captain feared the news would disturb the steerage passengers and kept the announcement of the disaster from all passengers until the ship reached Halifax, where she arrived on 20 April.

The captain calculated they had been about 300 miles behind Titanic at the time of the disaster, traveling in the same direction. Crossing the sinking site, they saw no other vessels or floating debris, but did see much ice. (Halifax Morning Chronicle, 22 April 1912)

Data:

August 25, 1904

Launched.

March 23, 1905

Maiden voyage, Liverpool - St. John, New Brunswick and return.

April 27, 1905

First voyage, Liverpool-Quebec-Montreal.

August 17, 1914

Taken over for service as armed merchant cruiser; attached to 10th Cruiser Squadron.

July 1, 1917

Acquired (with the Allan fleet) by Canadian-Pacific. No name change.

November 4, 1918

Arrived at River Mersey from London; reconditioned by Cammell Laird.

April 23, 1920

Resumed Liverpool-Quebec-Montreal service. Accommodation: cabin 418, third 566.

1922

Converted to oil fuel. New single-reduction geared turbines installed by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Ltd., Glasgow. New speed 14.5 knots. First voyage, GlasgowQuebec-Montreal. Renamed Marloch.

February 2, 1926

Collided off Antwerp with British steamship Whimbrel; towed to Southampton for repair

September 19, 1928

Laid up at Southend.

April 17, 1929

Sold to Thos. W. Ward. Broken up at Pembroke Dock, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire.

Courtesy: John P. Eaton. Used with permission.