R.M.S. "SAXON" (2)

Builder:                Day, Summers & Co., Southampton.   

Yard No.               

Official No.          44905

Tonnage:             1.141 gross,  894 net.

Dimensions:       245.0 x 31.8 x 23.7 ft

Engine:                2 cylinder horizontal trunk direct-acting by builder.  220 h.p., = 9 kts.

Passengers:       60 1st. class, 50 fore cabin.    

Reefer space:    

Launched:          

Registered:         27th March 1863       

Refit:                     May 1870 poop deck fitted.  new tonnage 1,308 gross, 1,049 net.

Re-engined:        1872 with 2-cyl. compound engine by Maudslay, Sons & Field, London.

Sold:                     September 1873 to Bailey & Leetham, Hull for their Lisbon company.

Re-named           September 1873.  "BENGUELLA" for Lisbon - South Africa mail service.

Re-engined:        1876 with 2-cyl. compound engine by Bailey & Leetham, Hull.  speed 12 kts.

Sold:                     1885 September to Empresa Insulana de Navegacao, Lisbon for Lisbon - Azores - New York service.

Re-engined:        1889 145 h.p. triple expansion & Boilers by Earles S.B. & E. Co., Ltd., Hull.

Fate:                      24th June 1889 sprung a leak (poss. from damage caused by grounding whilst being towed out of New

                               York), engine room flooded.   Ship abandoned in Atlantic 40N  49W.   All crew & passengers saved by

                               Italian barque MARIANNA, later transferred to Spanish liner ALFONSON XIII &landed at La Coruna.

Information from Union-Castle, a fleet history by Peter Newall 

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