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SS Alaska (1881)

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Won Atlantic Blue Ribbon in April 1882 for a record Atlantic crossing of 7 days, 6 hours, 43 minutes. Laid up 1894. In 1897 renamed MAGALLANES, sailed as charter for Cia Trasatlatica. Sold for scrap 1899, but resold as a hulk. Broken up
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Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897. Microfilm Publication M237, 675 rolls. Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36. National Archives at Washington, D.C.
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already high 135 tons. Built by John Elder & Company of Glasgow, she carried 350 first class passengers and 1,000 steerage. Her passengers included Hugh Simpson Rodham: future grandfather of
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completed 100 voyages when Guion suspended sailings in 1894. She proved difficult to sell and was finally chartered in 1897 by Cia. Transatlanticia Espanola as a troop transport. In 1899,
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was sold for scrap, but was resold to the Barrow shipyard where she was used as an accommodation hulk until broken up in 1902.
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as the fastest liner on the Atlantic in 1882. She was a slightly larger and faster edition of Guion's
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and in 1883 became the first liner to make the crossing to New York in under a week. However,
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Record breakers of the North Atlantic, Blue Riband Liners 1838-1953
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On her maiden voyage she arrived to New York in December 1881.
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was a record breaking British passenger liner that won the
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Approximately 350 saloon and 1000 steerage passengers
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Victorian-era passenger ships of the United Kingdom
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Index

USS Alaska


United Kingdom

Govan
Scotland
ocean liner
gross register tons
Blue Riband
Guion Line
Arizona
Hillary Clinton



"Immigration Vessels"


Germanic
Blue Riband
Oregon
Arizona
Blue Riband
Oregon
Categories
Victorian-era passenger ships of the United Kingdom
Victorian-era merchant ships of the United Kingdom
1881 ships

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