Length (feet) : | 281.0 |
Breadth (feet) : | 40.0 |
Depth (feet): | 18.2 |
Gross Registered Tonnage (g.r.t.) : | 1,825 |
Net Registered Tonnage (n.r.t.) : | 1,156 |
Engine Type : | 167nhp T.3 cyl 20, 31 ½ & 53 -36 160lb 80lb |
Engine Builder : | Central Marine Engine Works |
Additional Particulars : | Steel screw; speed 10 1/2 knots;
long bridge, poop and topgallant forecastle; hull built with deep frames cellular double bottom and aft peak ballast tank, five stem winches, steam steering gear amidships, hand screw gear aft, patent direct steam windlass, large patent vertical multitubular donkey boiler, telescopic masts with fore and aft rig. Trial trip 18 October 1906; Official No. 124318: Code Letters HJKQ |
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Steamship Veraston.
Laurie Bartle has sent us information from the New York Times May 18th 1909 regarding the Veraston. The article relates to a horrific 1700 mile journey that the vessel made with most of the crew stricken with malaria.
The Veraston set sail in the middle of February from Para up the Madeira river, which is a branch of the amazon, where they had been dropping off supplies for the railroad. On March 5th they moored up on the banks of Porto Velho where they were attacked by swarms of white mosquitos. By the time they left on March 26th most of the crew had come down with malaria and one had died, only the skipper Frederick Weeks of West Hartlepool and three others were fit enough to steer the steamer.
On April 16th the Veraston docked at Kingston Jamaica. By this time two more of the crew had died and fifteen needed to be taken to hospital. It was not until the 17th May 1909 that the Veraston finally docked at its destination at Brooklyn with only three of the original crew on board.
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