Miami (SS)

Name: Miami (SS)
Address: IE

Steamship in Ireland, dating from 1917

The Miami was a 3,762-ton defensively armed, refrigerated steamship built in Glasgow by Barclay, Curle & Company Ltd. in 1904. The steamer measured 107m x 14m x 9m and was owned by Elders & Fyffes Ltd. it plied the Atlantic transporting bananas and other fruits to the UK. On 22 June 1917, returning from New York to Manchester with 3,700 tons of cargo, the steamship was torpedoed by German submarine UC-51 11km off Fastnet. The steamer quickly sank (within seven minutes) but there was enough time

Type:: Steamship
Period:: 1917
Coordinates:: 51.40°N, 9.26°W

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