Arcturus (steamship)
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|+ {{Infobox ship image |Ship image=SS Arcturus model.jpg |Ship caption=A scale model by Tomi Isopahkala in Maritime Museum of Finland }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=Finland |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Finland|civil}} |Ship name=Arcturus |Ship owner=Finland Steamship Company |Ship operator= |Ship registry=Helsinki, {{flag|Finland}} |Ship route=Finland-Copenhagen-Hull, England |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=Gourlay Brothers, Dundee, Scotland |Ship original cost=FIM 1,317,000 |Ship yard number=183 |Ship way number= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched=1 October 1898{{cite news |title=Dundonians who attended the launch of the steamer Arcturus… |url= http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000453/18981003/024/0002 |newspaper=Evening Telegraph |place=Dundee |date=3 October 1898 |access-date=19 November 2015 |via= British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}} |Ship completed=December 1898 |Ship christened= |Ship acquired= |Ship maiden voyage= |Ship in service=1898–1957 |Ship out of service= |Ship identification=*code letters SQMJ (until 1933)
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SS Arcturus was a passenger ship of the Finland Steamship Company operating primarily on the route between Hanko, Finland and Hull, England via Copenhagen, Denmark. Gourlay Brothers of Dundee, Scotland built Arcturus, launching her on 1 October 1898 and completing her that December.
In its earlier years Arcturus was one of the primary ships that Finnish emigrants sailed on when heading to North America. After disembarking at Hull, emigrants would typically take a train to Liverpool to board a transatlantic liner.{{cite web |url= http://www.genealogia.fi/emi/emi32e.htm |title=The Journey from Finland to America |work=Suomalaisten siirtolaisuus - lyhyt katsaus |accessdate=5 February 2008}}
On 12 December 1930 in fog in the Kattegat Arcturus collided with another Finnish Steamship Company ship, Oberon. Oberon sank{{cite book |url= https://plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk/shipdata/pdfs/30/30b0876.pdf |year=1931 |title=Lloyd's Register of Shipping |location=London |publisher=Lloyd's Register |accessdate=11 October 2020}} in only three minutes, with the loss of 41 of her passengers and crew.{{cite book |last=Wilson |first=RM |year=1956 |title=The Big Ships |place=London |publisher=Cassell & Co |pages=220, 221}}
Arcturus remained in service until 1956.{{cite web |url= http://sydaby.eget.net/swe/arcturus.htm |title=Arcturus |work=Ostrobothnian Odysseys |accessdate=5 February 2008}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.genealogia.fi/emi/emi321ce.htm Finland Steamship Company's Emigrant Ships: S/S Arcturus], history from The Genealogical Society of Finland
- [http://www.genealogia.fi/emi/emi327ce.htm Finland Steamship Company's Emigrant Ships: S/S Arcturus], pictures from The Genealogical Society of Finland
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070823135128/http://sfhs.eget.net/P_articles/Q_artiklar/Q_Hango.html The Emigrant Route: Hangö-Copenhagen-Hull], from The Swedish-Finn Historical Society
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Category:Passenger ships of Finland
Category:Steamships of Finland
Category:Ships built in Dundee
Category:Maritime incidents in 1930
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