Twin Screw Line Fleet List
Fleet List of the Twin Screw Line Showing Ownership, Nationality, Name of Ship, Year Placed in Service, and Gross Tonnage. Gross tonnage equals cubic feet of all enclosed space divided by 100. Notations Regarding the Ship (if any), Such as Previous Name or Renaming, are shown after the Gross Tonnage.
TWIN SCREW LINE
Rankin, Gilmour and Company, Liverpool
(British)
In trans-Atlantic passenger service between 1883-1887.
- Bitterne (1883) 5,085
- Ludgate Hill (1882) 4,162
- Notting Hill (1881) 3,920
- Richmond Hill (1883) 4,225
- Saint Ronans (1881) 4,457 for Furness, Withy & Co. Ltd. (1894)
- Tower Hill (1881) 4,021
In 1885-6, Lloyds listed T R Oswald as the owner of the Bitterne, giving her tonnage as 5,085 tons and dimensions as 382 x 44 ft, with nominal accommodation for 50 first class and 1,350 steerage passengers, the latter in the holds intended primarily for cargo. Oswald had chartered her to the recently established Liverpool company styled the 'Twin Screw Line' (although she was, of course, a single screw steamer, making 13 knots).
Smith, Eugene W., Passenger Ships of the World: Past and Present, Boston: George H. Dean Company, 1963.
