 A postcard depicting Sirio
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | SS Sirio |
| Owner |
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| Builder | Robert Napier and Sons, Glasgow |
| Launched | 24 March 1884[1] |
| Christened | 24 March 1884, by Lizzie Hamilton[1] |
| Fate | Foundered after colliding with a rock, 4 August 1906 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 4,141 |
| Length | 380 feet (120 m)[2] |
| Beam | 42 feet (13 m)[2] |
| Draft | 33 feet 6 inches (10.21 m)[2] |
| Installed power | Four double-ended steel boilers, one three-cylinder compound engine[2] |
| Speed | 14.87 knots (27.54 km/h) maximum[2] |
| Capacity | 120 first class, 120 second class, 1,200 steerage |
SS Sirio was an Italian passenger steamer that was wrecked off the eastern Spanish coast on 4 August 1906, causing the deaths of at least two hundred Italian and Spanish emigrants bound for Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. The wreck had a profound effect on communities in northern Italy and was remembered in popular songs of the era. It was the second worst peacetime maritime disaster in Italian history, only surpassed by the sinking of the Principessa Mafalda nineteen years later.
- ^ a b "Launches–Scotch," Marine Engineer 5 (1883–84): 48.
- ^ a b c d e "Launches and Trial Trips," Engineering 35 (1883): 582.