Portia 1884

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Name:	PORTIA
Type:	Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched:	24/06/1884
Completed:	06/09/1884
Builder:	J Wigham Richardson & Co
Yard:	Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number:	175
Dimensions:	1156grt, 732nrt, 1100dwt, 220.5 x 31.2 x 16.0ft
Engines:	C2cyl (30 & 56 x 36ins), 180nhp
Engines by:	J Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker
Propulsion:	1 x Screw
Construction:	Iron
Reg Number:	91149
History:
06/09/1884	CT Bowring & Co, Liverpool
1893	New York, Newfoundland & Halifax SS Co Ltd (CT Bowring, managers), Liverpool
11/07/1899	Wrecked

Comments:	Accommodation for 60 x 1st Class passengers
	Contract price £20250, Loss £1386-2s-0d
	New York, Newfoundland & Halifax SS Co Ltd was known as the Red Cross Line
	During the summer months she was used to take Americans on cruises to the Artic
	1892: When on passage from Pilley's Island to New York, coming across an iceberg, the passengers asked if they could go closer.
	On doing so a large slab broke off, and re-surfaced under the ship. Luckily the wash from the ice fall swept the ship off the mini-berg.
	04/1899: When discharging in New York, fire broke out, when she was carrying several hundred barrels of keroscene. The fire was extinguished and the ship spent 6 weeks in a Brooklyn shipyard, being repaired.
	11/07/1899: Wrecked on Flint Island, when in dense fog when on passage from New York to St Johns via Halifax with general cargo.