Servia
1881
(Classic Ship Collection CSC-031VR)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 7,391 tons
- Dimensions: 532 x 52 ft.
- Machinery: Compound steam engine, single screw, = 17 knots
- Passengers: 1,050 (450 first class, 600 second class)
- Crew: 200
- Built: J. & G. Thomson Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland
- Launched: 1 March 1881
- Service: First steel-hulled ship built for Cunard Line and the first to be lighted with electricity. Second largest ship in world at time of launching. Maiden voyage commenced 26 Nov 1881. Completed 171 round trips across the North Atlantic before being retired and sold for scrap in 1902.
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