Scotia (cable ship)
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:29 am
Featured on the 40 cents is the cable ship Scotia, built by R. Napier and Company, Glasgow, for Samuel Cunard in 1861. She held the Atlantic Blue Riband for five years. Length 379 ft., b.p., 400 ft. o.a., beam 76 ft. 6 in. over paddle-boxes; 30 ft. 6 in. depth of hold; 20 ft. draft.
As a passenger ship she carried 300 at full capacity, and 1,400 tons of cargo, but she could not compete with the screw ships after 13 years of service and she was sold to the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, who converted her to a twinscrew cable ship, in 1879. The contract for the conversion was awarded to Laird Brothers, Birkenhead. In 1903 she was resold to the Commercial Pacific Cable Company. The Scotia laid cable between the Cocos Island and Cottesloe, near Perth, in the early 1900s. She was finally lost at Guam in the Ladrone Islands when she broke her back on a reef at Catalan Island in 1904.
CABLE WORK 1879 Penang - Malacca - Singapore - Banjoewangie 1880 Aden - Zanzibar Renewed major part of 1866 Trans Atlantic cable 1882 Greetsiel - Borkum - Valentia 1883 Vladivostock - Nagasaki - Shanghai Hong Kong - Foochow - Shanghai 1884 England - Spain Madeira - Cape St Vincent Cape St Vincent - Pernambuco 1885 Bathurst - Freetown - Accra - Lagos - Brass - Bonny 1887 Porthcurno - Carcavelos - Gibraltar - Malta - Zante 1889 Cape Town - Mossamedes 1890 Sydney - Wellington Aden - Suez 1896 Greetsiel - Borkum (Germany) - Vigo (Spain) 1891 Fano - Oye 1893 Zanzibar - Seychelles - Mauritius 1894 UK - Newfoundland Singapore - Labuan - Hong Kong 1898 Porthcurno - Gibraltar Jamaica - Turks Island - Bermuda 1899 Para - Pernambuco - Rio de Janeiro - Maldonado - Montevideo 1901 Cocos - Cottesloe - Glenelg North Sydney (Nova Scotia) - St Pierre et Miquelon - Bay Roberts
"Bill Glover/Atlantic-Cable.com Website"
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Cocos SG29, SG129 Sierra Leone SG829b 967 Mauritius SG895 Seychelles SG840
As a passenger ship she carried 300 at full capacity, and 1,400 tons of cargo, but she could not compete with the screw ships after 13 years of service and she was sold to the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, who converted her to a twinscrew cable ship, in 1879. The contract for the conversion was awarded to Laird Brothers, Birkenhead. In 1903 she was resold to the Commercial Pacific Cable Company. The Scotia laid cable between the Cocos Island and Cottesloe, near Perth, in the early 1900s. She was finally lost at Guam in the Ladrone Islands when she broke her back on a reef at Catalan Island in 1904.
CABLE WORK 1879 Penang - Malacca - Singapore - Banjoewangie 1880 Aden - Zanzibar Renewed major part of 1866 Trans Atlantic cable 1882 Greetsiel - Borkum - Valentia 1883 Vladivostock - Nagasaki - Shanghai Hong Kong - Foochow - Shanghai 1884 England - Spain Madeira - Cape St Vincent Cape St Vincent - Pernambuco 1885 Bathurst - Freetown - Accra - Lagos - Brass - Bonny 1887 Porthcurno - Carcavelos - Gibraltar - Malta - Zante 1889 Cape Town - Mossamedes 1890 Sydney - Wellington Aden - Suez 1896 Greetsiel - Borkum (Germany) - Vigo (Spain) 1891 Fano - Oye 1893 Zanzibar - Seychelles - Mauritius 1894 UK - Newfoundland Singapore - Labuan - Hong Kong 1898 Porthcurno - Gibraltar Jamaica - Turks Island - Bermuda 1899 Para - Pernambuco - Rio de Janeiro - Maldonado - Montevideo 1901 Cocos - Cottesloe - Glenelg North Sydney (Nova Scotia) - St Pierre et Miquelon - Bay Roberts
"Bill Glover/Atlantic-Cable.com Website"
http://atlantic-cable.com/stamps/index.htm
and other websites.
Cocos SG29, SG129 Sierra Leone SG829b 967 Mauritius SG895 Seychelles SG840