As the land transports were very bad the vessels in this line were picking up the passengers arriving in Marseilles by train from Paris, and were disembarking in Alicante to continue the trip to Madrid again by train, and opposite. In 1874 she was sold to Compañía de Vapores Correos Españoles de las Antillas y Seno Mejicano, based in La Habana and renamed Nuevo Moctezuma. She was scrapped in 1887. |
She was trading on the lines to the Antilles, being the vessel than on 03-July-1878 inaugurated the drydock on the company shipyard at Matagorda (Cádiz). In 1894 she was converted to coal pontoon due to her bad condition. |
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She was sunk on 30/October/1890 when leaving New York bound to Havana, with 61 persons dead including passangers and crew, surviving 24. The sinking was due to collision with a North-American sailing vessel. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Her dead weight was 4,545 MT; her length 99.1 meters; her breadth 11.6 and her depth 8.2. In 1913 was sold to F.G.Alegre, that a bit later sold her to Línea de Vapores Tintoré and renamed Telmo. Few years later, in 1916, she was hit by other vessel when leaving Liverpool and sunk. |
This second Antonio Lopez was bigger than the first. Her dead weight was 6,671 MT, whilst the first was 3,905. The length was 117.1 metros; the breadth 12.8 and the depth 8.4. The first was 85.3; 11.5 y 7.0 respectively. She was lost close to San Juan de Puerto Rico, after beached to save the cargo when under fire from Northamerican Navy vessels during the 1898 war.
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She was trading in the Caribe until the 1898 war, when was trasferred to the Spanish Guinea line. She was grounded and sunk in 1921, on a trip back to Spain, close to Palmas Cape (Ivory Coast). |
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On 23/June/1908 she hit bottom in the Meixides bank and sank very fast, killing 91 of the total 154 people on board between crew and passengers. Although the press clipping below indicates these shoals, it was possibly in Ximiela's, very close to the others. She was in a trip between Cádiz and Bilbao, with calls at different intermediate ports. She had left Ribeira that same day for Corunna. These shoals are located just to the north of the Ría de Muros, and to hit bottom there the ship had to deviate towards the coast from the direct track from the outlet of the Ría de Arosa to pass Finisterre. Possibly there would be fog, which prevented them from realizing the danger because the accident was in broad daylight.
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She grounded and sank on 13 February 1885 at Gando (Gran Canaria) just after leaving Las Palmas, carrying 280 persons including the crew. There was not casualties because as she was so close to shore the local fishermen helped in the evacuation from the fisrt moment. |
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She was 5,100 GRT, 3,869 DWT and 10,000 displacement, with 124.4 meters length, 14.4 beam and 9.8 depth. With her four masts was an original ship. In her transatlantic trips she used some times the sails when the tail shaft was broken. She had single screw with a triple expansion steam machine of 5,260 HP that gave her 17.6 knots in trials. Her accomodation had capacity for 164 passegers in First Class, 15 in Second, 42 in Third and 1,343 in Emigrant. The emigrants or troop travelled in the tweendecks, which when free were used for cargo. This distribution changed several times during the life of the vessel. Among other remarkable facts the crew of this ship took part in the Cabo Machichaco disaster, when this ship exploded at Santander on 3 November 1893 with more that 500 casualties. The Cabo Machichaco carried in her cargo around 50 tons of dynamite when started a fire due to the breaking of a sulphuric acid container. Thirty two crew from the Alfonso XIII were helping in the firefighting dying all them. Since 1896 to 1898 was attached to the Spanish Navy as auxiliary cruiser, being armed with four Hontoria cannons of 120 mm, two of 90 mm, two of 37 mm and two machine guns, carrying out several transport and patrol missions. On 12 May 1898 five shots hitted her when from the Northamerican Navy attacked San Juan de Puerto Rico. After the was helped to the evacuation of the Spanish Army from the Caribe and Philipines till 20 March 1899 when again started at Santander the line to Havana.
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She was scrapped in 1940, after several years laid up at Mahon due to her bad condition.
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The propulsion had twin screws, each one linked by a triple expansion steam machine of 1,440 HP. Each machine had a H.P. cylinder with 864 mm bore, a M.P. cylinder with 1,848 and one L.P. one with 2,337 mm, being the stroke 1,524 mm. The trial speed was 19.6 knots. In 1895 was lengthened, and her new dimensions were 7,859 GRT, 4,089 NRT and 160 meters length, with accomodation for 400 passengers in First class and 25 in Second. In 1900 was transferred to Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co. after the merging of the two shipping companies and in 1905 was sold to Hamburg America Line and renamed Oceana. She serviced the line Hamburg - New York until sold in 1910 to Bermuda North Atlantic Co. for cruises New York - Bermuda. She was arrested in 1912 and and laid up in the river Hudson.
She serviced the lines Spain - New York and Havana until 1925 when was laid up in Cadiz. She was scrapped in Italy in 1927. |
She had 10,551 GRT and the displacement was 14,400 MT, being the lenght 152.4 meters, the breadth 18.6 and the depth 10.9. Her speed in trials was 19.5 knots, with two steam turbines of 10,700 HP. The daily consumption was very high: 190 MT of good coal.
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