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Steamship RMS Asia

Steamship RMS Asia 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

Asia Took the Blue Riband in May 1850 with a Liverpool–Halifax run of 8 days 14 hours 50 minutes, an average of 12.25 knots (22.69 km/h; 14.10 mph). Asia also remained on the Halifax route during the Crimean War. Gibbs reports that she may have grounded near Cape Race and beached at St Johns in a sinking condition. Asia was sold in 1868 and converted to sail. She was finally broken up in 1883.

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