Salier

Steamship SALIER, built in 1874 by Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Hull, England, for Norddeutscher Lloyd (North German Lloyd). 3,083 tons; 107,59 metres long x 11,91 metres broad; straight bow, 1 funnel, 2 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, service speed 12 knots; accommodation for 142 first- and 800 3rd-class passengers. 15 June 1874, launched; 14 July 1875, trials held. 8 September 1875, maiden voyage, Bremen-Southampton-New York (3 roundtrip voyages). 1 April 1876, first voyage, Bremen-South America service. 10 February 1880, last voyage, Bremen-South America Service; returned to Bremen-New York service. 1890-1891, triple-expansion engines by Vulkan. 10 December 1895, resumed Bremen-South America service. 7 December 1896, wrecked on the north coast of Spain with the loss of her entire complement of passengers and crew (279 people) [Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (Prescott, Lancashire: T. Stephenson & Sons., 1955), p 185; Bonsor, South Atlantic Seaway; An illustrated history of the passenger lines and liners from Europe to Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina (Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications, 1983), pp. 235 and 240]. Pictured in Michael J. Anuta, Ships of Our Ancestors (Menominee, MI: Ships of Our Ancestors, 1983; reprint Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., [1993]), p. 292, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, MA 01970

Citation: [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 19 July 1997]