History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | SS New Borough |
Owner | C. Furness & Co. |
Builder | William Gray & Company, West Hartlepool |
Completed | 11 September 1888 |
In service | 19 September 1888 |
Out of service | 17 April 1895 |
Fate | Ran aground, sold and repaired |
History | |
United States | |
Name | SS Pensacola |
Owner | Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
Acquired | 1896 |
Out of service | 17 February 1906 |
Fate | Sold |
History | |
United States | |
Name | SS Wilhelmina |
Owner | A.H. Bull & Co. |
In service | 17 February 1906 |
Out of service | 1915 |
Fate | Sold |
History | |
United States | |
Name | SS Wilhelmina |
Owner | Southern Products Trading Co. |
In service | 1915 |
Out of service | 1916 |
Fate | Sunk due to accidental collision, 5 July 1916 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Schooner |
Tonnage | 1,696-1795 GRT, 1,169 NRT |
Length | 260.4 ft (79.4 m) |
Beam | 36.7 ft (11.2 m) |
Depth of hold | 18.2 ft (5.5 m) |
Installed power | 150 hp |
Propulsion | 3 cylinder triple expansion engine, single shaft, 1 screw |
Speed | ~7 knots (13 km/h; 8 mph) |
Crew | ~20 |
SS Wilhelmina (1888) was a cargo steamship. Owned by an US company during WWI, while sailing from New York City to Hamburg in early 1915 it was seized by the British for carrying contraband foodstuffs, triggering a diplomatic incident over how the British naval blockade of Germany impacted neutral trading rights.
The ship was built as SS New Borough at William Gray & Company, in West Hartlepool, England in 1888, commissioned by the trading company owned by Sir Christopher Furness.[1] In April 1895, the ship ran aground off Wash Wood Beach near the Virginia/North Carolina border, and though there was no loss of life the ship was written off as a total loss.[2] However, the ship was sold to and then repaired by the Gulf Transit Company, a subsidiary of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company. Renaming the ship the SS Pensacola, they operated the ship under the American flag until they sold it on 17 February 1906 to the A. H. Bull Steamship Company who renamed the ship the SS Wilhelmina, operating it as part of the Bull Line.[3]