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| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Sirius |
| Operator | Saint George Steam Packet Co, Cork, Ireland |
| Builder | Robert Menzies & Sons, Leith, Scotland |
| In service | 1837 |
| Fate | Wrecked and sunk off Ballycotton, Ireland, 16 January 1847 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Paddle steamer |
| Tonnage | 703 GRT |
| Displacement | 1,995 tons |
| Length | 178 ft 4 in (54.4 m) |
| Beam | 25 ft 8 in (7.8 m) |
| Draught | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Depth | 18 ft 3 in (5.6 m) |
| Installed power | 500 ihp (370 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Range | 2,897 nmi (5,365 km; 3,334 mi) at 6.7 knots (12.4 km/h; 7.7 mph) |
| Capacity | 40 passengers |
| Crew | 36 |
SS Sirius was a wooden-hulled sidewheel steamship built in 1837 by Robert Menzies & Sons of Leith, Scotland for the London-Cork route operated by the Saint George Steam Packet Company.[1][2] The next year, she opened transatlantic steam passenger service when she was chartered for two voyages by the British and American Steam Navigation Company.[3] By arriving in New York a day ahead of the Great Western, she is usually listed as the first holder of the Blue Riband, although the term was not used until decades later.[4]
- ^ 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. 38–39.
- ^ Greenwood, Richard; Hawks, Fred (1995). The Saint George Steam Packet Company. Kendal: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-762.
- ^ American Heritage (1991). The Annihilation of Time and Space.
- ^ Bonsor, Noel (1980). North Atlantic Seaway: An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New. Vol. 5. Cambridge: Brookside Publications. p. 1868. ISBN 0-905824-04-0.