SS Norge
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SS Norge was a Danish passenger liner sailing from Copenhagen, Oslo and Kristiansand to New York, mainly with emigrants, which sank off Rockall in 1904 in the biggest civilian maritime disaster in the Atlantic Ocean up to that time.
She was built in 1881 by Alex. Stephen & Sons Ltd. of Linthouse, Glasgow, for the Belgium company Theodore C. Engels & Co of Antwerp, the ship's original name was Pieter de Coninck. The ship was 3,359 GRT and 3,700 DWT. The 1,400 HP engine gave it a speed of 10 knots. She could carry a maximum of 800 passengers.
In 1889 she was sold to A/S Dampskibs-selskabet Thingvalla of Denmark (later to be the Skandinavien-Amerika Linien or Scandinavian-America Line) and renamed Norge.
On 28 June 1904 Norge ran aground close to Rockall, on St Helen's Reef. According to Sebak's comprehensive account, the final death toll was 635, among them 225 Norwegians. The 160 survivors spent up to 8 days in open lifeboats before rescue.
The wreck of Norge was located off Rockall in July 2003.
See also
References
- Per Kristian Sebak - Titanic's Predecessor: The S/S Norge Disaster of 1904 (2004) ISBN 8299677904
External links
- [Extensive site covering the catastrophe, in Norwegian]
- [The Orcadian - "Four years’ research unearths SS Norge’s final resting place"]
- [Journal of American Ethnic History]
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