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| 1897 | Feb. 18, launched as the Rotterdam for the Holland America Line, sailed on the Rotterdam - New York service | | 1906 | Apr. 5, purchased by the Scandinavian American Line (DFDS), renamed C.F.Tietgen | | 1906 | Captain was A.G. Thomsen, appointed to the shipping line in 1898 and to the ship in 1906. | | 1906 | Kristiania - New York | | 1906 | June 28, collided with and sank the schooner E. G. Hay, no lives lost | | 1907 | Kristiania - New York | | 1908 | Kristiania - New York | | 1909 | Kristiania - New York | | 1910 | Kristiania - New York | | 1910 | July 7, departed for cruising from Copenhagen up the Norwegian coast to the North Cape, calling at Bergen and Trondhjem | | 1911 | Kristiania - New York | | 1912 | Kristiania - New York | | 1913 | Kristiania - New York | | 1913 | July 29, chartered to "Nordisk Film A/S" for the production of the film "Atlantis" | | 1913 | Sold to the Russian American Line and renamed Dwinsk, sailed between Libau and Archangel to New York | | 1917 | Came under British (Cunard) management | | 1918 | June 18, torpedoed on way France - Newport News without warning by German sub. U-151, 400 miles NE of Bermuda. The crew from six of the lifeboats arrived safely after up to ten days at sea. The seventh boat disappeared with 22 men | | The information listed above is not the complete record of the ship. The information was collected from a multitude of sources, and new information will be added as it emerges |
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 C. F. Tietgen, Scandinavian America Line steamship
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 C. F. Tietgen, at Vippetangen, Kristiania (Oslo)
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This ship was named after the Danish merchant and first chairman of the DFDS board, Carl Frederik Tietgen. The steamship C. F. Tietgen had a tonnage of 8 173 gross tons, 7 385 under deck and 5 147 net. Dimensions: 469,5 feet long, 53,1 feet beam and holds 22.7 feet deep (length 143,34m x beam 16,21m). Promenade deck 189 feet long. She was constructed in steel, had twin screws, 3 decks, steel upper deck sheathed in wood and partly steel awning deck sheathed in wood. She
had 8 cemented bulkheads and was fitted with electric light. Cellular double bottom, aft 116
feet long, under engine and boilers 116 feet and forward 139 feet, 1,058 tons; Midship Deep Tank
48 feet, 1 050 tons; Forward Peak Tank 96 tons; Aft Peak Tank 73 tons; flat keel. She had one
funnel and two masts. Propulsion: triple expansion engines with 6 cylinders of 26 ½, 43 ½ and 72 inches diameter each pair; stroke 51 inches. The engine could deliver 954 nominal horsepower, 5250 indicated horsepower giving her a speed of 14 knots. She had 3 double ended and 2
single ended boilers, 24 corrugated furnaces, grate surface 426 sq. ft.; heating
surface 16 750 sq. ft. The engine was built by the same company as the hull. When built there was passenger accommodation for 200-1st, 150-2nd 2 000-3rd class, refitted later to 191 1st-class, 90 2nd-class and 610-3rd class passengers.
During her DFDS career she crossed the Atlantic 110 times. Call sign: NPRK
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See the snapshots taken onboard the S/S Dwinsk, by Heinrich (Henry) Ioganowitsch Arnowitz, during 1917 on a convoy from Halifax to Great Britain
[North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.3,p.1051, subm. by Ted Finch][Lloyd's register of shipping, subm. by Gilbert Provost][DFDS 1866-1991 by Søren Thorsøe a.o., p. 264]
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