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SS Frederica (1890)

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Yard number
  
250

Length
  
77 m

Launched
  
5 June 1890

Draft
  
4.51 m

Name
  
1890-1912SS Frederica 1912-1914SS Nilufer

Operator
  
1885-1911London and South Western Railway 1911-1912Idarei Massouseih, Constantinople 1912-1914Administration de Navigation a Vapeur Ottomane, Constantinople

Builder
  
J and G Thomson, Clydebank

Fate
  
Sunk by a mine 22 November 1914

Tonnage
  
1,059 gross register tons (GRT)

SS Frederica was a passenger vessel built for the London and South Western Railway in 1890. She later served in the Ottoman Navy as the minelayer Nilufer and was sunk during World War I.

History

Frederica was built by J and G Thomson of Clydebank, Scotland, and launched on 5 June 1890 for the fast mail and passenger service between Southampton and the Channel Islands. She was one of an order of three ships, the others being Lydia and Stella. She was in Southampton and dressed for the opening of the new deep-water dock by Queen Victoria on 26 July 1890. Her arrival in Guernsey on 31 July 1860 at 6:23 a.m. was witnessed by many observers, and she then departed at 7:00 a.m. and travelled to Jersey, with her arrival there at 8.33 a.m. witnessed by a thousand people on the pier. On 4 September 1890 she broke the record for the fastest passage from Guernsey to Southampton, departing at 10.15 a.m. and arriving in Southampton Docks at 3.30 p.m., a time of 5 hours 15 minutes. In October 1890, she made the same voyage in 5 hours 8 minutes.

In 1911, she was sold to Idarei Massousieh in Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire, and in 1912 she was sold to the Administration de Navigation a Vapeur Ottomane, Constantinople, and renamed Nilufer. After World War I broke out in 1914, the Ottoman Navy deployed her as a minelayer, and she was sunk by a Bulgarian mine in the Black Sea near Rila, Bulgaria, on 22 November 1914.

References

SS Frederica (1890) Wikipedia


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