Yard number 343 Tonnage 8,242 GRT Draught 38 ft (12 m) Length 152 m | Type Steamship Beam 57 ft (17 m) Launched 9 February 1890 Draft 12 m | |
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Owner Hamburg America Line (1890–1898)
Spanish Navy (1898–1899)
Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (1899–) Builder Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company | ||
SS Normannia was a steamship. It was built in Glasgow, Scotland by Fairfield Govan. It was completed in 1890 and launched 9 February of that year. It was owned by the Hamburg America Line. Normannia was 152.40 metres (500.0 ft) long and 17.53 metres (57.5 ft) wide. It was hit by a tidal wave in January 1894 en route from New York, New York to Algiers, Algeria. In 1898, it was purchased by the Spanish Navy for use in the Spanish–American War. It was acquired in the following year by the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique for debt payment. Normannia was scrapped beginning in September 1906.
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