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.png) RMS Etruria with SS Skirmisher
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Etruria |
| Namesake | Etruria |
| Owner | Cunard SS Co |
| Operator | Cunard SS Co |
| Port of registry | Liverpool |
| Route | Liverpool – Queenstown – New York |
| Ordered | 19 July 1883 |
| Builder | John Elder & Co, Glasgow |
| Yard number | 286 |
| Launched | 20 September 1884 |
| Completed | 10 March 1885 |
| Maiden voyage | 25 April 1885 |
| Out of service | August 1908 |
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| Fate | Scrapped in Preston in 1910 |
| Notes | One of the last steamships to be fitted with auxiliary sails |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ocean liner |
| Tonnage | 1884: 7,129 GRT, 3,258 NRT |
| Length | 501.6 ft (152.9 m) |
| Beam | 57.2 ft (17.4 m) |
| Depth | 38.2 ft (11.6 m) |
| Decks | 5 |
| Installed power | 1,559 NHP |
| Propulsion | 3-cylinder compound engine |
| Sail plan | barquentine |
| Speed | 19.5 knots (36.1 km/h) |
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RMS Etruria was a transatlantic ocean liner built by John Elder & Co of Glasgow, Scotland in 1884 for Cunard Line. Etruria and her sister ship Umbria were the last two Cunarders that were fitted with auxiliary sails.[1] Both ships were among the fastest and largest liners then in service. Etruria was completed on 10 March 1885,[2] twelve weeks after Umbria, and entered service on the Liverpool – New York route.
Etruria had two large funnels that gave the outward impression of great power. She had three large steel masts that were barquentine-rigged. Another innovation was that she was equipped with refrigeration machinery, but it was the single-screw propulsion that would bring the most publicity later in her career.
The ship epitomized the luxuries of Victorian style. The public rooms in First Class were full of ornately carved furniture and heavy velvet curtains hung in all the rooms, and they were cluttered with bric-a-brac that period fashion dictated. These rooms, and the First Class cabins, were situated on the Promenade, Upper, Saloon and Main Decks. There was also a Music Room, Smoke Room for gentlemen, and separate dining rooms for First and Second Class passengers. By the standard of the day, Second Class accommodation was moderate, but spacious and comfortable. RMS Etruria's accommodation consisted of 550 First Class, and 800 Second Class passengers. However late in 1892 this changed to 500 First Class, 160 Second Class, and 800 Third Class (Steerage) passengers.
- ^ Frame, Chris. "Early Cunarders of Particular Interest". Chris' Cunard Page. Archived from the original on 30 January 2010. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
- ^ https://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=6266&vessel=ETRURIA [bare URL]