SS TACOMA pre 1900

[Dierk Bauer]

Dear members, maybe you can help, am posting on behalf of our new member Warwick...

Hi all.
Researching ships that my Great Uncle sailed in the late 1890's to the 1930's. Have quite a lot of information on some ships but have found it difficult to find information on the SS TACOMA pre 1900. She sailed out of Seattle. Have found one article in the magazine Seattle and the Orient which gives one hazy distant picture. Can anyone give any advice on where to look for further information. Obtained these ship details this year from his sailing papers that are held by a family in America. Prior to this he had been a lost cause in family research for the past 15 years.
Thank you in anticipation.
Warwick

[Seadog Pete R.I.P.]

Batavia (1870) Tacoma (1892)Shikotan Maru (1905)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_%281870%29

[Dierk Bauer]

Hi Warwick,

the same link, translated by Google Translator, well not perfect, but better than only the german version

http://translate.google.com/translat...%25281870%2529

[Seadog Pete R.I.P.]

Batavia
1870 - 1891
• Gross Tonnage - 2,553
• Dimensions - 99.79m x 11.98m (327.4ft x 39.3ft)
• Number of funnels - 1
• Number of masts - 2
• Construction - Iron
• Propulsion - Single screw
• Engines - 2 compound - the first Cunarder to have compound engines
• Service speed - 12 knots
• Builder - William Denny & Bros, Dumbarton
• Launch date - 1 February 1870
• Passenger accommodation - 150 1st class and 800 3rd class

The Batavia made her maiden voyage between Liverpool, Queenstown and New York on 10 May 1870 and continued on this route for most of her career with Cunard. In 1880 she made a trial run from Liverpool to Bombay; although this was a success the experiment was never repeated and Cunard restricted itself to the Atlantic and Mediterranean. In 1882 she served as a troop-transport for the Egyptian Expedition.

In 1884 she was sold to the shipbuilders John Elder & Co in part payment for the Umbria and Etruria and they added triple-expansion engines to her. She was sold by them to the Canadian Pacific Line in 1887 and ran between Vancouver, Japan and China for the rest of her life. In 1892 she was sold to Northern Pacific and renamed the Tacoma, she ran for the North American Mail Steamship Co between 1898-1901 but then returned to Northern Pacific. In 1904 she came under the control of the North Western Commercial Line.

In March 1905 she was seized by the Japanese conveying contraband during the Russo-Japanese War and renamed the Shikotan Maru. On 3 October 1924 she became stranded near Shaiweishan; after jettisoning 1,700 tons of coal she was refloated and towed to Shanghai, but was subsequently scrapped.
Source:http://www.cunard.co.uk/About-Cunard...Fleet/Batavia/

Regards
Peter

[Jan Hendrik]

Could this be her?
She is listed as the ss Tacoma in the State library of Victoria.
Jan