SS Norge
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 Denmark
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| Name: | Pieter de Coninck |
| Owner: | Theodore C. Engels & Co |
| Port of registry: | Antwerp  Belgium
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| Builder: | Alex Stephen & Sons Ltd, Linthouse, Glasgow |
| Yard number: | 252 |
| Launched: | 11 June 1881 |
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| Name: | Norge |
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1889-1898 A/S Dampskibs-selskabet Thingvalla 1898-1904 Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab (DFDS) |
| Port of registry: | Copenhagen  Denmark
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| Fate: | Ran aground and sank on 28 June 1904 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 3,359 Gross Register Tons |
| Installed power: | 1,400 hp (1,000 kW) |
| Speed: | 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Capacity: | 800 passengers |
1889-1898 A/S Dampskibs-selskabet Thingvalla
SS Norge was a Danish passenger liner sailing from Copenhagen, Kristiania and Kristiansand to New York, mainly with emigrants, which sank off Rockall in 1904. It was the biggest civilian maritime disaster in the Atlantic Ocean until the sinking of the Titanic eight years later, and is still the largest loss of life from a Danish merchant ship.
She was built in 1881 by Alexander Stephen and Sons of Linthouse, Glasgow, for the Belgian company Theodore C. Engels & Co of Antwerp; her original name was Pieter de Coninck. The ship was 3,359 GRT and 3,700 tonnes deadweight (DWT), and the 1,400-horsepower (1.0 MW) engine gave a speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph). She could carry a maximum of 800 passengers.
In 1889, she was sold to a Danish company, A/S Dampskibs-selskabet Thingvalla, for its Stettin-Copenhagen-Kristiania-Kristiansand-New York service and renamed Norge. On 20 August 1898, Norge collided with the French fishing brigantine La Coquette in a fog. La Coquette broke in two and sank, and 16 of the 25 crew aboard drowned. Following financial difficulties, Thingvalla was purchased in 1898 by Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab (DFDS), Copenhagen, which served the route as "Scandinavia-America Line". By then, the capacity of Norge was 50 1st class, 150 2nd class and 900 3rd class passengers.
In June 1904, the Norge was heading for New York from Copenhagen, under the command of Captain Gundal. She was carrying a crew of 71, 9 second-class passengers, and 694 steerage passengers. Among the steerage passengers, there were 296 Norwegians, 236 Russians, 79 Danes, 68 Swedes, and 15 Finns. Half of the steerage passengers had prepaid tickets, paid for by relatives living in the United States.
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