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SS Alma (1894)

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The ship was built by J and G Thomson of Clydebank and launched on 4 October 1894 by Evelyn Donaldson, Cochno House, Duntocher. She was provided with accommodation for 100 first-class passengers in two-berth rooms and 50 second-class passengers at the after end of the vessel in large cabins. The
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first-class cabins were located near the centre of the vessel where the pitching motion is least. Bilge keels were also fitted to dispense with rolling motion. She was one of an order for two ships, the other being
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of Bridgwater which had foundered off Lundy on 13 January 1899. With two others they had built a raft, and spent three hours in the stormy sea, but the two others were washed off.
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In she was sold to the Eastern Shipping Company, Penang. In 1916 she was purchased by P N Heath, Shanghai who sold her in 1917 to M Matsou and U Matsumoto, Japan who renamed her
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In 1899 she picked up Thomas Slattery and James Montague, seamen from the
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Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968).
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in 1922. She was wrecked on 17 June 1924 on the west coast of
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Index

London and South Western Railway
United Kingdom
gross register tons
London and South Western Railway
Columbia
Sakhalin
"Launches and Trial Trips"
British Newspaper Archive
"The Disaster off Lundy"
British Newspaper Archive
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London and South Western Railway
Ada
Alberta
Alice
Alliance
Alma
Ardena
Bertha
Brittany
Brittany
Caesarea
Cherbourg
Columbia
Courrier
Diana
Dora
Ella

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