S.S. Danmark, Thingvalla Line

The S/S Danmark had a tonnage was 3,414 tons gross, 2,587 under deck and 2,236 net. She had one funnel, three masts, barquentine rigged, iron construction, 3 iron decks and partly iron awning deck, 5 cemented bulkheads, double bottom aft 68 feet long, 147 tons. Midship Deep Tank 36 feet, 426 tons. She had a single screw and a speed of 11 knots. Propulsion: compound engine with 2 inverted cylinders of 44 and 84 inches diameter respectively; stroke 48 inches; 80 p.s.i.; 400 horsepower; engine built by T. Clark & Co. in Newcastle.

On April 6th 1889 the emigrant ship Danmark was abandoned in the Atlantic. The passengers and a crew were all saved by a small freighter, the S/S "Missouri" of the Atlantic Transport Line. The "Missouri" was not accommodated for more than 20 people. The passengers was brought to the Azores and put ashore. For more information, read: The sinking of the S/S Danmark - (newspaper account concerning the sinking of the S/S DANMARK, has been transcribed and submitted by Kristin Brue. Kristin's great-grandmother was among the passengers rescued from the sinking ship in 1889.)

The Rescue of the Passengers of the S/S Danmark - Article from The Press - Tuesday Morning, April 23, 1889 Transcribed by Mike Nelson, Aug. 2005 - This article from The Press about the sinking and rescue of the passenger on the S/S Danmark in 1889 is really a magnificent story. The steamer Missouri mastered by Captain Murrell rescued in mid-ocean the 735 (739) passengers and crew from the disabled and sinking steamship which was leaking heavely after her shaft had snapped