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The Family Piechorowski - SS Donau

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SS Donau

from Ships of Our Ancestors, courtesy The Peabody Museum of Salem

The steamship DONAU was built by Caird & Co, Greenock (ship #147), for Norddeutscher Lloyd, and launched on 17 October 1868.

2,897 tons; 106,15 x 12,229 meters (length x breadth); clipper bow, 1 funnel, 2 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, service speed 12-13 knots; accommodation for 60 1st-class and 700 steerage-class passengers; crew of ca. 90-105.

16 January 1869, maiden voyage, Bremen-Southampton-New York.

1877, engines compounded by builders.

16 January 1887, last voyage, Bremen-New York.

25 September 1889, last voyage, Bremen- Baltimore.

21 October 1889, sold to H. Bischoff, Bremen; rebuilt as a freighter.

16 March 1895, bound from Hamburg to Philadelphia, destroyed by fire at ca. 31 N 20 W; all aboard were saved by the British steamship DELAWARE

The Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1887-88 gives the following details:

DONAU - Call sign: QBKH.
Master: Captain Pohle.
Rigging: iron single screw steam Brig.
Tonnage: 2,896 tons gross and 1,771 net.
Dimensions: 347.8 feet long, 40 foot beam and 33.5 feet deep.
Built: 1868 by Caird & Co. in Greenock.
Propulsion: compound engine with 2 cylinders of 60 and 100 in. diameter respectively; Stroke 54 inches; 600 horsepower; engine built by the same company as the hull.
Owners: Norddeutscher Lloyd. Port of registry: Bremen

[Edwin Drechsel, Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, 1857-1970; History, Fleet, Ship Mails, vol. 1 (Vancouver: Cordillera Pub. Co., c1994, p.. 50; ; Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 2 (1978), p. 546]. Pictured in Michael J. Anuta, Ships of Our Ancestors (Menominee, MI: Ships of Our Ancestors, 1983), p. 82, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, MA 01970 - [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 11 February 1998]