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Steamship RMS Canada

Steamship RMS Canada 0

Classification

Ship class:
​America-class steamship

Basic information

Country of build:
Builder:
Upper Clyde Shipbuilders
Status:
Decommissioned

Ship measurements

Displacement:
1,850 t
Length:
77 m
Beam:
12 m

Machine

Propulsion:
  • Napier two-cylinder side-lever steam engine, 1,400 ihp (1,000 kW), paddle wheels
Speed:
10 knots

Canada was launched in June 1848 by Robert Steele & Co. in Scotland. She was 1,831 GRT and had a cargo capacity of 450 tons. On 25 November 1848, she departed Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Halifax. She won the eastbound record in 1849 with a Halifax–Liverpool voyage of 8 days 12 hours 44 minutes, an average of 12.38 knots (22.93 km/h; 14.25 mph). During the Crimean War, she remained on the Halifax route and was sold for conversion to a sailing ship in 1866. She was ultimately scrapped in 1883.

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