Ship Details

Amerika

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Registry #1 (Denmark Register)) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1930 Amerika Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1930 Place Copenhagen Area Country Denmark
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 465.4' x 62.2' x 28.5'
Builder Burmeister & Wain Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 10110 Type 1 Passenger/Freight Vessel
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 2-7000hp diesel engines (1930) Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Twin Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1930-1943 she was owned by The East Asiatic Co. (EAC Lines - Det Østasiatiske Kompagni - ØK), Copenhagen Denmark.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1943-04-22
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
In 1939 her route was Copenhagen, Southampton, St. Thomas, Kingston, Cristobal, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver. Return voyages: Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Panama Canal, Kingston, St. Thomas, London, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Gothenburg, Copenhagen. In 1943 this vessel was torpedoed and sunk in Atlantic by U306 off Greenland coast on April 22, 1943 with loss of 86 passengers including 37 Canadian pilots in transit to England.
 
References
http://www.timetableimages.com/maritime/images/eac.htm; http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/eac/eac1930-1939.htm; http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/eastasiatic.shtml;
Last update
2016-08-09 10:38:30
Record Creator
John M. MacFarlane (2016)
Record Updater
John M. MacFarlane (2016);

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