Amazon (SS)

Steamship in Ireland, dating from 1918

10,037-ton 12-year-old steel steamship of Belfast, owned by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. Built in 1906 by Harland & Woolf Ltd, Belfast. Measured L.156.41 x B.18.38 x D.9.34. Powered by 8-cylinder quadruple 827 Hp six-boiler screw engine. En route from Liverpool to Buenos Aires under captain H.D. Doughty with passengers. Torpedoed by the German submarine U-110. The Amazon quickly began to sink, but miraculously the crew and all 870 passengers were rescued within 15 minutes by two nearby Royal

Type:

Steamship

Period:

1918

Coordinates:

55.77°N, 9.19°W

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