RMS Britannia
"The ship which sailed from Liverpool on Independence Day - Friday, July 4th- 1844, was the Britannia, one of four paddle steamers built on the Clyde.
The Britannia was built by Robert Duncan, and was fitted with side-lever engines by Robert Napier. She was 207ft long by 34ft. 4in. broad, with a moulded depth of 24ft. 4in., and her gross tonnage was about 1154 tons. A cargo capacity of 225 tons, with accommodation for 115 cabin passengers, was provided. Her engine were designed to develop 740 indicated horse-power, giving an average speed of 81/2 knots on a coal consumption of 38 tons per day, and the voyage to Boston lasted 14 days and 8 hours.
It is interesting to compare the 1154 gross tons of the Britannia with the 52,117 gross tons of the modern Berengaria, and her speed of 81 knots with the record 27-knot performance of the Mauretania of 4 days 10 hours and 41 minutes for the voyage from Queenstown to New York."[1]
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- ↑ The Engineer 1924/07/11