SS Saale

SS Saale was an ocean liner for North German Lloyd in the late 19th century, which was severely damaged in the 1900 Hoboken Docks Fire. On 30 June 1900, Saale was moored at the North German Lloyd piers in Hoboken, New Jersey, preparing to depart on a transatlantic crossing when some cotton on a nearby pier caught on fire and spread to the ship. Saale and several other ships were soon engulfed in flames; 99 passengers and crew on Saale were killed in the fire and subsequent sinking.

Description

The ship was long, with a beam of . She was assessed as . She was powered by a steam engine driving a single propeller. This could propel her at . == North German Lloyd career ==

North German Lloyd career

Saale was a German passenger ship owned by the North German Lloyd company of Bremen, and was built by the Fairfield shipbuilding company in Glasgow in 1886. She was launched on 21 April 1886 and made her maiden voyage on 18 August 1886. She was capable of carrying 1,240 passengers: 150 in first class, 90 in second class, and up to a thousand in steerage. As a result of this disaster it was legislated that portholes had to be big enough for a person of reasonable size to escape. == Later career ==

Later career

The ship was sold to Luckenbach Transportation and Wrecking Co, New York, United States. On 19 October 1917, during World War I, J. L. Luckenbach was under fire from German submarine for three hours, and her cargo of cotton set on fire. The American destroyer arrived on the scene and drove off the attacking U-boat, helped to extinguish the fire, and make repairs to the boat. When the convoy Nicholson had been escorting caught up with the pair of vessels, ==Further reading==

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