TSS Manxman (1955)
Manxman
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| Name: | TSS Manxman |
| Owner: | 1955-1982: Isle of Man Steam Packet Company |
| Operator: | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company |
| Port of registry: | Douglas, Isle of Man |
| Ordered: | 1953 |
| Builder: | Cammell Laird |
| Cost: | £847,000 |
| Way number: | Official Number 186349 |
| Laid down: | 1954 |
| Launched: | 1955 |
| Maiden voyage: | 21 May 1955 |
| In service: | 1955 |
| Out of service: | 1982 |
| Homeport: | Douglas |
| Identification: | IMO: 5219943 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 2011/12 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | King Orry-class Packet Steamer |
| Type: | Passenger Steamer. |
| Tonnage: | 2495 gross tons |
| Length: | 325 feet (99 m) |
| Beam: | 46 feet (14 m){ |
| Depth: | 18 feet (5.5 m) |
| Installed power: | 8,500 shp (6,300 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × Pametrada Turbines driven by superheated steam at 350 pounds per square inch (2,400 kPa) |
| Speed: | 22 knots (25 mph) |
| Capacity: | Passenger and crew: 2,393 |
Turbine Steam Ship (RMS) Manxman was a passenger ferry launched from the Cammell Laird shipyard, Birkenhead, on 8 February 1955. She was the final vessel in a class of six similar ships, the Six Sisters, ordered by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, and was the second of the Company's ships to carry this name. She was withdrawn from service in 1982. Following a failed preservation attempt, the ship was broken up at Sunderland in 2012.
Although outwardly similar to the five previous post-war ships built by Cammell Laird, Manxman had a very different engine room lay-out than that of her five older sisters.
Manxman was one of the first ships constructed to use the Pametrada design, in which the turbine rotor turned at 4,300 r.p.m. Double reduction gearing was used to drive the two propellers at 270 r.p.m.. Her two Pametrada turbines were driven by superheated steam at 350 pounds per square inch (2,400 kPa). This meant Manxman developed a normal shaft horsepower of 8,500 shp (6,300 kW).
Manxman’s maiden voyage took place on 21 May 1955, with a sailing from Douglas to Liverpool. From then on, she plied the routes from North West England and North Wales to the Isle of Man and Ireland.
The Manxman was cast in the role of RMS Carpathia for the 1979 dramatic film S.O.S. Titanic.
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