100 Years of Emigrant Ships from Norway  Solem, Swiggum & Austheim |
S/S Montebello |
100 Years of Emigrant Ships from Norway Solem, Swiggum & Austheim |
S/S Montebello |
| The Montebello (I) was built 1890 by Richardson, Duck & Co. in Stockton. Her tonnage was: 1 735 tons gross, 1 634 under deck and 1 116 net. Dimensions: 276 feet long, 35 feet beam
and holds 15.6 feet deep. Rigging: steel construction, single screw steam Schooner, 2 decks,
iron upper deck sheathed in wood, awning deck and 5 cemented bulkheads. She was fitted with
electric light. Flat keel, cellular double bottom 188 feet long, 236 tons. Forward Peak tank 18
tons and aft peak tank 27 tons. Propulsion: triple expansion engine with 3 cylinders of 24, 38
and 62 inches diameter respectively, stroke 42 inches delivering 276 nominal horsepower. 2
single ended boilers, 6 corrugated furnaces, grate surface 112 sq. ft., heating surface 4,552 sq.
ft. The engine was built by Amos & Smith in Hull. Master: Captain G. Pepper, appointed to the
ship in 1890. Call sign: LSFR. Official registration #: 95834
In June 1910 she was sold to a Spanish company, and renamed "Barcelo".
Scrapped in 1929.
[The Wilson Line of Hull, 1831-1981 by A.G.Credland & M.Thompson][Lloyd's register of ships] (Information submitted by Ted Finch and Gilbert Provost)
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