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Canada was launched in June 1848 by Robert Steele & Co. in
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and 90% more powerful. Coal consumption was 60 tons per day, an increase of 50% from the earlier class. The engines and related machinery cost £50,000 of the total price of £90,000 per ship. Fitted for 140 saloon passengers, accommodations were still sparse.
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minutes, an average of 12.38 knots (22.93 km/h; 14.25 mph). During the
Crimean War, she remained on the Halifax route and was sold for conversion to a sailing ship in 1866. She was ultimately scrapped in 1883.
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was the fastest of the initial quartette and won the Blue Riband with a voyage in
October 1848 between Liverpool and Halifax of 8 days 23 hours, averaging 11.79 knots (21.84 km/h; 13.57 mph). The next year,
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struck
Copeland Rock (Ireland) and was seriously damaged. She remained on the Halifax route during the Crimean War and her January 1856 departure to New York reopened that service.
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enacted a subsidy of $ 400,000 to establish a new
American steamship line for the Atlantic passenger trade. At that time, Cunard was receiving a mail subsidy from the
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was also chartered as a troopship during the
Crimean War and continued in Cunard service until 1867, when she was sold and converted to a sailing ship. In 1858,
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Asia Took the Blue Riband in May 1850 with a
Liverpool–Halifax run of 8 days 14 hours 50 minutes, an average of 12.25 knots (22.69 km/h; 14.10 mph).
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remained in the fleet until 1866 when she was sold for conversion to a sailing ship. On June 6, 1875, she was wrecked near South Stack, Anglesey.
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The final two units were commissioned in 1850 and were another 20% larger with 40% more power. Fitted for 10 additional passengers,
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Western Ocean: A Record of Atlantic Steam and Motor Passenger Vessels from 1838 to the Present Day
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By 1845, steamships carried half of the transatlantic saloon passengers and Cunard dominated this business. While the
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on her second outward voyage in 1848 with a run from
Liverpool–Halifax of 9 days 16 minutes, averaging 11.7
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also remained on the Halifax route during the Crimean War. Gibbs reports that she may have grounded near
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Niagara was launched in August 1847 and departed on her maiden voyage in May 1848. She was chartered as a
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quartette proved to be steady performers. In 1849, they averaged 13 days 1 hour to New York via
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Napier two-cylinder side-lever steam engine, 1,400 ihp (1,000 kW), paddle wheels
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maintained Cunard's Halifax route when most of the rest of the fleet trooped during the
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had long careers with Cunard. The initial units completed about 100 round trips and
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of 1848 at Boston. This is one of the earliest known photos of an Atlantic steamship
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was sold in 1868 and converted to sail. She was finally broken up in 1883.
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after the normally ice-free port was paralyzed by a sudden freeze. She was
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of £85,000 per year to operate five steamers on a fortnightly service from
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RMS Europa this is one of the earliest photos of an Atlantic Steamship.
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in 1863 before being sold for conversion to a sailing ship. The former
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Record breakers of the North Atlantic, Blue Riband Liners 1838-1953
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lasted in the fleet for nineteen years. The final two ships,
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A painting of RMS America in Halifax, Valentines Day, 1859.
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Victorian-era passenger ships of the United Kingdom
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33:America-class amphibious assault ship
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287:Larger and more powerful than the
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479:(21.7 km/h; 13.5 mph).
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380:The first four units of the new
314:class in both luxury and speed.
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343:Great Western Steamship Company
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1253:Ships built on the River Clyde
926:"Cunard Steamship Fleet, 1849"
29:America-class ship of the line
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291:s they replaced, the initial
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27:Not to be confused with
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351:United States Congress
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485:Crimean War
473:Blue Riband
270:Cunard Line
213:2,226
154:1,850
79:Preceded by
73:Cunard Line
1222:Categories
1008:Shipwrecks
935:19 October
808:References
699:1849–1851
649:1848–1850
501:Allan Line
237:Propulsion
178:Propulsion
104:Subclasses
1181:HMS
1121:Peterhoff
1099:HMS
1088:USS
1077:HMS
959:655205099
930:nshdpi.ca
736:Cape Race
511:in 1875.
509:broken up
497:chartered
439:replaced
433:Caledonia
431:replaced
410:Britannia
408:replaced
387:Britannia
375:Britannia
359:Liverpool
355:Admiralty
289:Britannia
278:Liverpool
264:Britannia
123:Completed
118:1848–1850
84:Britannia
69:Operators
1183:Terrible
1151:Adelaide
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752:Records
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686:Hibernia
677:Records
628:Records
608:Bartlett
517:Records
471:won the
441:Hibernia
371:New York
319:Americas
317:All six
312:Atlantic
282:New York
61:Builders
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1131:America
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1079:Plumper
780:Pacific
706:Pacific
636:America
567:Niagara
556:Niagara
526:Cambria
505:America
499:to the
489:America
481:America
469:America
455:America
398:Niagara
394:America
382:America
363:Halifax
309:Collins
297:Halifax
293:America
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210:Tonnage
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133:America
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665:Canada
620:Arabia
616:Europa
612:Europa
610:died.
604:Europa
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437:Africa
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406:Canada
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367:Boston
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305:Africa
268:, the
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477:knots
266:class
259:class
245:Speed
191:knots
186:Speed
115:Built
110:class
86:class
1209:1851
1196:1849
955:OCLC
937:2023
744:Asia
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