What was the typical speed of a tramp steamship?
score:8
Accepted answer
I'm not sure there was a 'typical' speed. Most that I've read about have a speed in the range 9 - 11 knots. Some examples include:
The tramp steamer SS Monarch was launched in 1885, and had a design speed of approximately 10 knots.
The SS Daleby was built in 1900, and had a speed of 9.5 knots.
The Sizergh Castle was launched in 1903, and had a speed of 9 knots.
The SS Sutherland was launched in 1918, and had a speed of 11 knots.
The MV Silver Fir was launched in 1924, and had a speed of 10 knots. The Silver Fir was sunk by the German raider Gneisenau.
The SS Hartismere was built in 1933, and had a speed of 11 knots.
It may be worth noting that the design for the Liberty Ships evolved from the design of
"... a simple ship originally produced in Sunderland by J.L. Thompson & Sons based on a 1939 design for a simple tramp steamer"
Liberty Ships had a speed of 11–11.5 knots.
More post
- 📝 Did Japan have secret films about going into the US in the 40s?
- 📝 Has any U.S. Vice President not been nominated as presidential candiate although he ran as candiate?
- 📝 What was the relationship between Angles, Saxons, and Jutes; and the Vikings?
- 📝 (How) Did criminals in the middle ages get treatment for injuries?
- 📝 Why are Mary I, Mary II and Anne not as famous as Elizabeth I, Victoria and Elizabeth II?
- 📝 Was there a social stigma for British born/living in India prior to WW2/Indian independence?
- 📝 Why did Italian artillery perform so badly during WWII?
- 📝 Is whig history generally considered to be 'bad' history?
- 📝 Historical documents of Mount Athos
- 📝 How was Canadian sovereignty in the arctic threatened in the 1950s?
- 📝 Was Laz near Pribram at any time situated in the Sudetenland?
- 📝 Monuments of Sesostris
- 📝 When the Chinese were driven out of modern Vietnam in AD 938, did an Vietnamese ethnic identity already exist?
- 📝 Divine Right of Kings: Why?
- 📝 Why was Japanese Unit 731 immune from War Crime trials?
- 📝 How much did a ship cost in Ancient Greece?
- 📝 Where was the Buenos Aires - Lima Spanish Royal Road?
- 📝 How old is the practice of a woman accompanying another woman to the ladies restroom?
- 📝 How could West Berlin had access West Germany/world while the wall was up?
- 📝 What did the French resistance call the oil used to destroy German tanks/trucks?
- 📝 What is the proper term for the "year 0"?
- 📝 Aside from the Pyramids, what is the tallest man-made structure still standing in Europe & the Near East from ancient times?
- 📝 Is the first visually recorded use of anti-cavalry defences on the Bayeux Tapestry?
- 📝 What options India had other than getting its independence from Britain?
- 📝 Was the Roman Empire based on a 'plunder economy'?
- 📝 How many times in history has a government completely "moulded to its own shape the physical character of the people"?
- 📝 Why did the USSR preserve the national republics?
- 📝 Why did Chamberlain act to appease Hitler leading up to the outbreak of World War 2?
- 📝 What was the tactical benefit of using flamethrowers as weapons?
- 📝 Why did the Swedish colonies in America and Africa fail?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 What was the typical speed of a tramp steamship?
- 📝 What was the typical peasant's diet like in Europe during the High Middle Ages?
- 📝 What was the typical range of travel of a Pennsylvanian resident for everyday life in the late 18th early 19th Century Pennsylvania?
- 📝 What was the typical error with dead reckoning navigation?
- 📝 In WW2 USN ships, what was the weight of a typical boiler?
- 📝 Did Adolf Hitler ever address the fact that his own appearance was almost an exact opposite of what he considered the ideal Aryan appearance?
- 📝 What was the historical context of the 2nd amendment to the US Constitution?
- 📝 During the breakup of the Soviet Union, on what basis was citizenship granted or withheld for each of the fifteen new republics?
- 📝 What led some people to (correctly) believe that there was no land under the ice cap at the North Pole?
- 📝 What was the status of Arab Christians during the crusades?
- 📝 What was the religion of the Arabic people before conversion to Islam?
- 📝 What was the purpose of Nazi extermination camps?
- 📝 What was the internal Soviet reaction to the moon landing?
- 📝 What was the function of the walls of Jericho?
- 📝 What was the pound (unit of weight) initially equal to?
- 📝 At what point was the Byzantine Empire's decline irreversible?
- 📝 What was the reason for Soviet troops to withdraw from Yugoslavia in World War II?
- 📝 What was the point of horse armour?
- 📝 What would have been the typical drinks for a US farmer in the late 18th/early 19th century?
- 📝 What was the first solar eclipse that was demonstrably predicted in advance?
- 📝 What was the role of the Soviet Navy during WWII?
- 📝 What was the plan for an abort of the Enola Gay's mission to drop the atomic bomb?
- 📝 What was the economic basis for West Berlin?
- 📝 What is the evidence to claim that political order in ancient Rome was sufficiently different under "kingdom", "republic" and "empire"?
- 📝 What was the average height of Roman men and women?
- 📝 What was the longest a World War II submarine stayed at sea without being resupplied at a port?
- 📝 What was the cleanest war ever fought?
- 📝 What was the Seven Years War called at first?
- 📝 What was the first battle in history fought by vast-majority-% "distance-shooting" non-mechanized force?
- 📝 What / When was the first use of concentration camps in history?