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Hi Threebs and Shaunt6,
Yes, I should have closer photos as well! Without a chance... this definitely is IVERNIA! Found that Shaun's incredible photo on Wiki and there is just not to missed!
Between 1900 and 1907 IVERNIA made just 55 calls at Boston.... and of course she on other ports was also trooping in 1914 and sank in 1917.
The photo of that SN posted are probably when the ship was quite new. The appearance of the superstructure... cables and other parts all look just too clean and new so she was probably about 1900. The two jibs ... rigged from bow to foremast.... and probably never rigged
in a real passage... unless the Chief was trying to save coal on the eastbound passage home!
Close up of the steam windlass!!!!! That 'pawl and ratchet' is incredible for the cable windlass... if that is the right call of it!!!!!
One other item... IVERNIA in Boston on 23rd April 1900 on her maiden voyage. She was just 14,058 g.r.t..... just a small plodding liner... and she arrived with the largest number of passengers had ever arrived on a transatlantic crossing... 2,190 passengers!!!!
Hmmm... IVERNIA is roughly 10 times the size of QUEEN MARY 2..... so by that number of QM2 could be about 21,900 PASSENGERS.
Stephen
Yes, I should have closer photos as well! Without a chance... this definitely is IVERNIA! Found that Shaun's incredible photo on Wiki and there is just not to missed!
Between 1900 and 1907 IVERNIA made just 55 calls at Boston.... and of course she on other ports was also trooping in 1914 and sank in 1917.
The photo of that SN posted are probably when the ship was quite new. The appearance of the superstructure... cables and other parts all look just too clean and new so she was probably about 1900. The two jibs ... rigged from bow to foremast.... and probably never rigged
in a real passage... unless the Chief was trying to save coal on the eastbound passage home!
Close up of the steam windlass!!!!! That 'pawl and ratchet' is incredible for the cable windlass... if that is the right call of it!!!!!
One other item... IVERNIA in Boston on 23rd April 1900 on her maiden voyage. She was just 14,058 g.r.t..... just a small plodding liner... and she arrived with the largest number of passengers had ever arrived on a transatlantic crossing... 2,190 passengers!!!!
Hmmm... IVERNIA is roughly 10 times the size of QUEEN MARY 2..... so by that number of QM2 could be about 21,900 PASSENGERS.
Stephen
Great catch, Clyde. Upon further study, I'm going to say that the vents must have been changed... I had to find more visual giveaways, and I think I found them... SAXONIA had two tall vents between the first and second masts, and the deckhouse under the second mast stretched almost across the entire beam of the ship, so the lifeboats were stowed above it, rather than next to it. Said deckhouse on SAXONIA had four forward facing portholes instead of three.
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