| Career (Great Britain) |  |
|---|---|
| Owner: | Orient Steamship Co. See also Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (Breatainn Mhòr Prydain Fawr Breten Veur Graet Breetain is the larger of the two main islands , London |
| Builder: | R. Napier & Sons Ltd shipyard, Glasgow |
| Laid down: | 11 April 1891 |
| Launched: | November 1891 |
| Reclassified: | 1915-1918 Requisitioned by the Admiralty for conversion to Armed Merchant Cruiser |
| Homeport: | Glasgow |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1922, at Troon |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | cargo/passenger liner fitted with refrigeration equipment |
| Displacement: | 6814 L/T |
| Length: | 465 ft (142 m) |
| Beam: | 53 ft (16 m) |
| Draught: | 24 ft 6 in (7. Glasgow (ˈglæzgoʊ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom Glasgow (ˈglæzgoʊ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom An ocean liner is a ship designed to transport people from one Seaport to another along regular long-distance Maritime routes according to a schedule 5 m) |
| Propulsion: | 5 coal-fired boilers. A boiler is a closed vessel in which Water or other Fluid is heated Two four-cylinder triple-expansion engines driving twin propellers |
The SS Ophir was a British steel twin-screw ocean liner owned by the Orient Steamship Co. A steam engine is a Heat engine that performs Mechanical work using Steam as its Working fluid. An engine is a mechanical device that produces some form of output from a given input A steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a ship in which the primary method of propulsion is steam power, typically driving a Propeller An ocean liner is a ship designed to transport people from one Seaport to another along regular long-distance Maritime routes according to a schedule of London, which was employed on the company's London/Aden/Colombo/Australia service from the 1890s until 1915 when she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and saw three years' service as an amed merchant cruiser. She was returned to the owners in 1918 but was never refitted, being broken up in 1922.
One appreciative passenger was "the Welsh Swagman" Joseph Jenkins who embarked at Melbourne on 24 November, 1894, bound for Tilbury Docks in a second-class cabin at the fare of £26 15s 6d. Joseph Jenkins (1818-1898 was an educated tenant farmer from Tregaron, Ceredigion, mid- Wales who when aged over 50 suddenly deserted his home and When he first saw the vessel, it appeared so huge that he wrote "it is a wonder to me that it would move". [1]. Jenkins, a noted diarist, proceeded to record in detail the 103-day voyage passing through the new Suez Canal. The Suez Canal is a Canal in Egypt. Opened in 1869 it allows Water transportation between Europe and Asia without circumnavigation
In 1901, the Ophir conveyed the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (the future King George V, and Queen Mary) to Australia to open the Federal Parliament in Melbourne[2] A petty officer named Harry Price was with the tour from February to November 1901, and made a careful record, later published as The Royal Tour 1901, or the Cruise of H. Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953 was the queen-empress consort of George V of the United Kingdom A Petty Officer is a noncommissioned officer or equivalent in many navies. Harry Price (1877 &ndash June 1965 was an Ordinary seaman of the Royal Navy. M. S. Ophir; Being a Lower Deck Account of their Royal Highnesses, The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York's Voyage Around the British Empire.
References
- ^ Phillips B Pity the Swagman CLCG Aberystwyth p. 370
- ^ New York Times report, 9 Jun 1901
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