 Arizona when she held Atlantic Record.
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Arizona |
| Owner |  Guion Line |
| Port of registry | Liverpool |
| Builder | John Elder & Co, Govan |
| Yard number | 222 |
| Laid down | 1879 |
| Launched | 10 March 1879 |
| Identification | UK official number 81271 |
| Fate | Broken up May 1926 |
| Notes | Renamed Hancock in 1898 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ocean liner |
| Tonnage | 5,146 GRT, 2,928 NRT |
| Length | 450.2 ft (137.2 m) |
| Beam | 45.4 ft (13.8 m) |
| Depth | 35.7 ft (10.9 m) |
| Installed power | 1,200 NHP |
| Propulsion |
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| Sail plan | Four masts |
| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Arizona was a record breaking British passenger liner that was the first of the Guion Line's Atlantic Greyhounds on the Liverpool-Queenstown-New York route.[1] One nautical historian called Arizona "a souped up transatlantic hot rod."[2] Entering service in 1879, she was the prototype for Atlantic express liners until the Inman Line introduced its twin screw City of New York in 1889. The Arizona type liner is generally considered as unsuccessful because too much was sacrificed for speed.[3] Laid up in 1894 when Guion stopped sailings, Arizona was sold four years later and briefly employed in the Pacific until she was acquired by the US Government for service in the Spanish–American War. As the US Navy's Hancock she continued trooping through World War I, and was scrapped in 1926.[3]
- ^ Fletcher, R. A. (1910). Steam-Ships, the Story of their Development to the Present Day. Sidgwick & Jackson.
- ^ Fox, Stephen. Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel and the Great Atlantic Streamships.
- ^ a b Gibbs, Charles Robert Vernon (1957). Passenger Liners of the Western Ocean: A Record of Atlantic Steam and Motor Passenger Vessels from 1838 to the Present Day. John De Graff. pp. 52–92.