SS Irma (1905)
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| Name: | Irma |
| Owner: | Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab |
| Port of registry: | Bergen |
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| Cost: | 570,684 kr |
| Yard number: | 510 |
| Launched: | 5 January 1905 |
| Acquired: | April 1905 |
| Out of service: | 13 February 1944 |
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| Fate: | Sunk by Royal Norwegian Navy MTBs |
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| Tonnage: | 1,322 GT |
| Length: | 244 ft (74.37 m) |
| Beam: | 32.8 ft (10.00 m) |
| Draught: | 21.1 ft (6.43 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1,500 hp triple expansion steam engine |
| Speed: | 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h) |
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| Notes: | All the above listed information, unless otherwise noted, was acquired from |
SS Irma was a 1,322-ton steamship built by the British shipyard Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. Ltd. in Middlesbrough in the north-east of England. She was delivered to the Norwegian passenger ship company Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab of Bergen in 1905. Irma sailed for the company until she was attacked and sunk by two MTBs belonging to the Royal Norwegian Navy on 13 February 1944.
After delivery, Irma served on the Bergen–Newcastle route until she was transferred to Norway in the autumn of 1921 to carry out tourist voyages to the North Cape and Spitsbergen in the summer seasons. In 1927, she was put on the Norway–Hamburg route, replacing SS Neptun and SS Mira. A new heating system was installed in 1913 and wireless radio in 1914. Irma had a new streamlined rudder put in place in 1928. In 1931, she joined the Hurtigruten route in Norway, replacing SS Hera after the latter's shipwreck in March that year.Irma was rebuilt that year and once again the year after that. In a series of upgrades she received a refrigeration system in 1933, improved navigational equipment in 1938 and an echo sounding device in 1939. Irma was a very popular ship amongst her passengers, with her smoking salon receiving particular praise. She had only one serious accident in the pre-war years, which occurred when she hit a reef off Kabelvåg in the Lofoten islands in 1937. Although suffering leaks in her port side, Irma managed to make port in Kabelvåg and put ashore all of her 120 passengers. Repairs were carried out at a shipyard in Bergen.
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