Cargo liners from 1925 to 1930

[Frank Burroughs]

Well, my novel needs a second ship. One that carries cargo and passengers. The Burntisland economy steamer just does not carry enough passengers. A ship that would carry ten to twenty passengers and cargo would be great. A deck plan would be a plus. Cargo-Liners-An-Illustrated-History by AMBROSE GREENWAY MOREBATH is my reference book. The book has no plans, sigh.

more books than hours,
Frank

[Doc Vernon]

Burntisland Shipbuilding Company - Wikipedia May give you some more ideas ???
Not sure
Cheers

[Frank Burroughs]

Excellent poster!

[Ivan Cloherty]

Frank you need to be looking at South American runs from UK,as there were a lot of 12 passenger vessels on that run, Royal Mail, Blue Star Line, Donaldson's for East C SA and PSNC (Pacific Steam Navigation Company) for WCSA, most of these companies had their vessels built in Harland & Wolff Belfast.

If you want vessels that carry more you need the Far Eastern runs, British India SS Co, Blue Funnel, Glen Line, Ben Line, Ellermans City Line, they normally carried 25/30 passengers, some vessels as much as 80

Short sea UK - Scandinavia, mostly Wilson Line out of Hull 12 -20 passengers

[j.sabourn]

Frank received your msg. About Trampships. Don’t forget when going through there may seem a lot, these are just the trampships the liners cargo and otherwise are another entity. So you are dealing with thousands of ships. JS
consider the liners the normal bus route for shipping and the trampships the private bus on a mystery tour.
A lot of trampships also carried passengers if necessary and the biggest restriction was the number 12 whereafter on British Shipping a doctor had to be carried.
It was similar on all types of British Shipping however when crew sizes were large that some type of medical assistance had to be available on board. Think it was over 60 and most seismic ships of today carry either a doctor or a medic. The same applies to oil rigs and the likes , the average person will not notice it as the job title does not emphasise it like Dr. But more than likely something like the safety officer will also encompass the medic side , or any of the other job titles around the control room areas. JS.

[Frank Burroughs]

boringia.jpg

Name Boringia
Type: Motor merchant
Tonnage 5,821 tons
Completed 1930 - Burmeister & Wain´s Maskin & Skibsbyggeri A/S, Copenhagen
Owner United Baltic Co, London
Homeport Glasgow

LBp: 425'
Beam: 57'
Draught:
Depth from shelterdeck: 36'
Diesel: Twin screw. Two 7-cyl. 4-stroke cross head B&W diesel engines with air injection type 7630-S nos:1637 & 1638. 6700 IHP / 5000 BHP.

Cargo/Passenger ship with 4 cargo holds of which no. 1 and 2 had tweendecks.
Crew: 58. Accommodation for 40 passengers with 18 double-cabins and 4 single-cabins

this looks like a good candidate for a cargo liner. I would like to have a second tramp steamer. The devil of it is I do not see in the plans where they carry passengers. I need a ship that delivers work crews to the island, discreetly.

[Frank Burroughs]

How fast would the engines above drive this ship?