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Steamship RMS Africa

Steamship RMS Africa 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

In October 1851, Africa struck Copeland Rock (Ireland) and was seriously damaged. She remained on the Halifax route during the Crimean War and her January 1856 departure to New York reopened that service. Africa was sold for refit as a sailing ship in 1868.

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