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SS Lusitania

Twin screw steel steamship wrecked near Cape Point in 1911

Summary

Twin screw steel steamship wrecked near Cape Point in 1911

Field	Value
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	Lusitania 2a.jpg
section2	{{Infobox ship/career
name	SS Lusitania
owner	Empresa Nacional de Navegação
builder	Sir Raylton Dixon & Company, Middlesbrough
yard_number	519
launched	12 February 1906
fate	Wrecked on 18 April 1911
section3	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
tonnage
length	421 ft
beam	51 ft
draught	20 ft
power	754 nominal horsepower
propulsion	* Triple-expansion steam engines
speed	14 kn

SS Lusitania, a Portuguese liner

Twin shafts
Four scotch boilers

'*SS *Lusitania''''' was a Portuguese twin-screw ocean liner of 5,557 tons, built in 1906 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co, and owned by Empresa Nacional de Navegação, of Lisbon.

The ship was wrecked on Bellows Rock off Cape Point, South Africa at 24h00 on 18 April 1911 in fog while en route from Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique, with 25 first-class, 57 second-class and 121 third-class passengers, and 475 African labourers. Out of the 774 people on board, eight died when a life boat capsized. On 20 April the ship slipped off the rock into 37 m of water to the east of the rock. The wreck has become a fairly well known recreational dive site, but at 33 to 40 metres, it is deeper than recommended for the average recreational diver, and the currents and breakers over the reef make it a moderately challenging dive.

Map of the wreck site of SS ''Lusitania''

The sinking of Lusitania spurred the local authorities to construct a new lighthouse on the Cape Point.

References

(2024). "Wood, Iron and Steel: Shipwrecks mapped off the Western Cape". Wreckless Marine.
"ThinkQuest". thinkquest.org.
(2006). "Table Mountain to Cape Point". Struik.

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