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Zeeland

 
Red Star Line
 


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Length: 561.6 ft
Breadth: 60.2 ft.
Draft (or Depth):
Tonnage: 12,760 (gross)
Engines: 2 quadruple-expansion steam engines
Speed: 15 knots
Builder: John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland
Launched: November 24, 1900
Maiden Voyage: April 13, 1901
Disposition: 1930 - Scrapped at Inverkeithing, Scotland.
Particulars:








Port of Registry: Antwerp, Belgium
Flag of Registry: Belgian
Funnel color: Black; white band
Company flag: White swallow-tail pennant with a red star
Signal Letters:
Wireless call letters: M Z D
Details: Steel; two funnels, four masts; ; twin screw; accommodations- 342 first class, 194 second class, 626 third class, 121 crew.


 

Relationship to Titanic disaster / inquiries.

Mentioned during testimony of Gerhard Apfeld - Marine Superintendent of the Red Star Line.

Data:

November 24, 1900

Launched by John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland, for the Red Star Line.

April 13, 1901

Maiden voyage: Antwerp - New York,

1930

Scrapped at Inverkeithing, Scotland.

 


Courtesy: John P. Eaton. Used with permission.
Image Courtesy: Jeff Newman and greatships.net.