100 Years of Emigrant Ships from Norway  Solem, Swiggum & Austheim |
S/S Heimdal |
100 Years of Emigrant Ships from Norway Solem, Swiggum & Austheim |
S/S Heimdal |
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The S/S Heimdal was built by Dobie & Co, Glasgow
(engines by Walker, Henderson & Co, Glasgow) in 1882 for Dampskibs Selskabet
Freja. Tonnage was 2,024 tons gross, 1,318 under deck and 1,323 net.
Her details were - 286 feet long, 35.1 foot beam and holds 25 feet deep
(length 87,17m x beam 10,73m) Bridge deck 18 feet long and forecastle 28 feet long.
Iron construction, straight stem, one funnel, three masts (Brigantine rigging), 2 decks
(1 of iron & 1 partly of iron), 3 tiers of beams, 5 cemented bulkheads, double bottom aft,
64 feet long, 84 tons. Midship Deep Tank 22 feet, 244 tons. Forward Peak Tank 106 tons.
Aft Peak Tank 22 tons. Propulsion: compound engine with 2 inverted cylinders of 35 & 68 inches
diameter respectively; stroke 42 inches; operating at 90 p.s.i.; 200 horsepower.
The engine was built by Walker, Henderson & Co. in Glasgow. She had a single screw and a service
speed of 10 knots.
Launched on 3rd April 1882, she was chartered to the Thingvalla Line the following year and commenced sailings from Copenhagen to Christiania (Oslo), Christiansand, and New York on 18th April 1883. She started the last of 7 voyages on this service on 25th March 1884 and in 1886 was sold to French owners and renamed "Conseil". On 13th February 1902 she was sunk in collision with the Portuguese steamer "Peninsular" at Lisbon.
[North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.3,p.1051, Lloyd's register of shipping, Information submitted by Gilbert Provost and Ted Finch]
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