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SS Silesia
The SS ''Silesia'' was a late 19th-century Hamburg America Line passenger and cargo ship that ran between the European ports of Hamburg, Germany and Le Havre, France to Ellis Island, New York transporting European immigrants, primarily Russian, Prussian, Hungarian, German, Austrian, Italian, and Danish individuals and families. Most passengers on this route were manual laborers, including stonecutters, locksmiths, farmers, millers, upholsterers, confectioners, and tailors, though physicians and other professionals also bought passage on her.〔National Archives and Records Administration Film M237, Reel 462〕
==Building==
Built by Caird & Company of Greenock, Scotland, the ''Silesia'', along with the SS ''Germania'' (I) (1863), SS ''Germania'' (II) (1870), SS ''Frisia'' (1872), SS ''Pomerania'' (1873), SS ''Hammonia'' (I) (1855), and SS ''Hammonia'' (II) (1866), was a ''Hammonia'' class ship. Some sources report her as being in length and from side to side〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ss Silesia built by Caird & Company Greenock Clydebuilt Ships Database )〕 though other contemporary sources report her as somewhat larger.
With both a steam engine and a set of traditional masts, she was one of a brief but large category of "transitional" (wind-to-steam) vessels. Like many of these ships, the ''Silesia'' had a steel hull, two masts, and one steam funnel. Her two engines drove a single screw with 2,200 horsepower making 54 revolutions per minute. Twelve men shoveling coal continuously from her four coal bunkers kept her engines running around the clock, consuming 75 of her 1,100-ton capacity of coal per day. All of the steam generated in her boilers was recovered and reused during any given length of her journey. The smoke from the burning of coal quickly blackened many of her sails, which were as follows: on her foremast she had two staysails (a fore staysail and a fore topmast staysail), a course, topsail, and topgallant sail; and on her mainmast, the equivalent five sails (a staysail, topmast staysail, course, topsail, and topgallant sail) plus a spanker for a combined total of eleven sails.〔
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