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} in ). | Ship yard number = | Ship way number =118604 | Ship laid down = 1905 | Ship launched =Thursday March 9, 1905 | Ship completed = | Ship christened = | Ship acquired = | Ship maiden voyage = | Ship in service = 1905 | Ship out of service = 1954 | Ship identification = *Official Number 118604 *Code Letters *H R C S * *Code Letters *G P M D * | Ship fate = Scrapped at Barrow in Furness 1954 | Ship status =Srapped | Ship notes = }} |} SS (RMS) ''Viking'' was a steel, triple-screw turbine driven passenger steamer operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company between 1905 and 1954. ==Construction & dimensions== ''Viking'' was built at Armstrong Whitworth's Walker Shipyard on the River Tyne and was launched by Miss Woodhead on Thursday March 9, 1905. ''Viking'' was the first turbine driven vessel in the Company's history.〔''Island Lifeline''. Connery Chapell (p37), T. Stephenson & Sons, 1980〕 A contemporary report at the time described her as: ''"The finest steamer that has ever bourne the shield of the company".''〔''Mona's Herald.'' Wednesday March 8th, 1905.〕 Length 350'; beam 42'; depth 17'3". ''Viking'' had accommodation for a crew of 80, and was certificated to carry 2,000 passengers,〔''Mona's Herald''. Wednesday March 8th, 1905〕saloon accommodation was aft and steerage passengers were carried forward. Her engines developed 10,000 i.h.p. which gave her a service speed of 22 knots. ''Viking'' underwent her Sea Trials in late May 1905.〔 ''Viking's'' three propellers were driven by three sets of Parsons direct-acting turbines, the higher pressure in the centre and the lower pressure in each wing. She had a boiler steam pressure of 160 pounds p.s.i. The astern turbines which operated on the wing propellers were incorporated in the low pressure casings. She was in service until 1954, and became the last coal burning passenger ship in Steam Packet service. Her furnesses would consume 60 tons of coal on a round trip between Douglas and Fleetwood.〔〔''Ships of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company (Fred Henry) Revised Edition (1977) p21〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Viking (1905)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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