SALAMIS
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date1899
Object NamePASSENGER AND CARGO VESSEL
MediumSTEEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 392' 7" x breadth 47' 2" x depth 21' 5"
Gross Tonnage: 4508 ton
Gross Tonnage: 4508 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001978
Keywords
Yard Number: 314
Official Number: 108666
Subsequent Name: KAMARIMA (08/1919)
Fate: Demolished by Cantieri Navale Triestino, Trieste in 1924.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Passenger and cargo vessel, screw, steel.
Owners:
11/07/1899: Registered at Aberdeen.
1900: Requisitioned as troop transport, H.M. TRANSPORT 105, for Boxer Rebellion.
1911: Owners Bank Line Ltd. (A. Weir & Co.), Glasgow, name retained.
08/1919: Owners Canada Steamship Lines, Montreal and renamed
General History:
11/04/1899: Launched. Named by Mrs George T. Henderson, London. As SALAMIS was Largest vessel built at Aberdeen up to this time Walker & Co., Bridge Street, took cinematograms of the launch, which were shown at an exhibition by the company in the Music Hall on the 17th. 12/07/1899: Vessel opened for public viewing in the afternoon, on donation of a silver coin to the Royal Infirmary.
13/07/1899: Trials in Aberdeen Bay and left for London.
08/08/1899: Sailed from London on its maiden voyage to Australia, via Tenerife and Cape Town.
18/09/1899: At Melbourne from Cape Town.
07/1900: S.S. SALAMIS was on the Admiralty’s list of ships suitable for use as troop transports and on arrival in Sydney she was requisitioned to carry the Australian Naval Brigade to China, to respond to the Boxer Rebellion there. SALAMIS became 'Her Majesty’s Transport 105'.
SALAMIS sailed for Melbourne to embark the Victorian Contingent, who were sworn in on Saturday 23 July 1900 at the Williamstown Barracks. SALAMIS arrived alongside the Breakwater Pier, Williamstown on Sunday 29 July, when the work of embarking the heavy stores, guns and limbers started at once and was completed that evening.
On 30 July 1900 the contingent embarked and at 4.15 p.m. the SALAMIS got under way for Sydney. The New South Wales Contingent was sworn in as late as Saturday 4th August, the day the SALAMIS arrived in Port Jackson.
After visits by local dignitaries, including the Governor, Lord Beauchamp and Sir William Lyne, Transport 105 left Cowper Wharf in the afternoon of the 7 August 1900 for an anchorage in Farm Cove and sailed the next day for China, where she arrived on 9 September.
Description of campaign: - http://www.worldcat.org/identities/nc-salamis%20steamship
07/08/1912: Grounded off Port Natal and refloated after 3 hours. Temporary repair to hole in No. 1 hold at Port Natal.
1918: At Dar-es-Salam as a troopship. Photograph in National Library of Scotland (see notes).
1920: Chartered to Compagnie Canadienne Transatlantique (joint Canada Steamships & French Line) for Le Havre – Quebec – Montreal service, but made only three voyages before the river iced up. Reverted to Canada Steamship’s Canada – West Indies route. 06/1924: Sold to Italian buyers for scap.
08/08/1924: Arrived at Savona for demolition. Later transferred to Trieste.
Notes:
Sister ship to MORAVIAN, built by Robert Napier at Glasgow, except SALAMIS had an enclosed bridge.
A half model of the Salamis is on display in the Aberdeen Maritime Museum, Acc. No. ABDMS003102.
Engine details: Steam by screw, inverted, surface condensing, triple expansion engine, 30” x 50” x 80½” cylinders with 54” stroke, 3924 i.h.p., 643 n.h.p., by H.R. 13 knots
Boiler: number 2 steel double-ended S. B.; Heating area (ft^2) 9018; Diameter 14' 6"; Length 19' 6"; Furnaces 12 Brown's 3' 6" dia. (Howden's F.D.); Pressure (p.s.i) 200
Propellor: Diameter 18' 0", cast iron boss with bronze blades.
£75,000 with £800 extra for additions and alterations.
Terms: - Payable in 4 instalments, when framed, plated, launched & finished, 5% kept off each instalment for 12 months after the steamer is accepted by owners.
H.R. Order Book (Aberdeen City Archives): - With a poop, topgallant foxle, hanging keel and clipper stem with figurehead. Class 100A1. Water ballast. Accommodation for 50 x 1st class and 650 x 3rd class passengers. Steam steering gear, steam windlass, 10 steam winches 7” x 12” with helical teeth and 18” barrels. Boiler mountings, donkey pump and outfit all according to specification. Order 03/12/1898 - 8” x 2½” teak rail round lower bridge deck in place of 7/8” iron rod as specified. £98.10/-,
See also:
History (CS) - http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=51673&vessel=SALAMIS
History (MF) - Merchant Fleets No. 17, David Savill & Duncan Haws. ISBN 0 946378 14 2
History (SL) - http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/bank.shtml
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/cantrans.shtml
1912 Grounding report: - https://plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk/SOTON_Documents/Plimsoll/20088.pdf
Family information and photographs: - http://morgan.shaunmcguire.co.uk/The%20Ship.html
Dar-es-Salam photograph: - Acc.12016/2 (reference number), International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960 (collection), National Library of Scotland (subcollection), NLS DOD ID: 97048024 (file)
