S.S. C. F. Tietgen, Scandinavian America Line

This ship was named after the Danish merchant and first chairman of the DFDS board, Carl Frederik Tietgen. The steamship C. F. Tietgen had a tonnage of 8 173 gross tons, 7 385 under deck and 5 147 net. Dimensions: 469,5 feet long, 53,1 feet beam and holds 22.7 feet deep (length 143,34m x beam 16,21m). Promenade deck 189 feet long. She was constructed in steel, had twin screws, 3 decks, steel upper deck sheathed in wood and partly steel awning deck sheathed in wood. She had 8 cemented bulkheads and was fitted with electric light. Cellular double bottom, aft 116 feet long, under engine and boilers 116 feet and forward 139 feet, 1,058 tons; Midship Deep Tank 48 feet, 1 050 tons; Forward Peak Tank 96 tons; Aft Peak Tank 73 tons; flat keel. She had one funnel and two masts. Propulsion: triple expansion engines with 6 cylinders of 26 ½, 43 ½ and 72 inches diameter each pair; stroke 51 inches. The engine could deliver 954 nominal horsepower, 5250 indicated horsepower giving her a speed of 14 knots. She had 3 double ended and 2 single ended boilers, 24 corrugated furnaces, grate surface 426 sq. ft.; heating surface 16 750 sq. ft. The engine was built by the same company as the hull. When built there was passenger accommodation for 200-1st, 150-2nd 2 000-3rd class, refitted later to 191 1st-class, 90 2nd-class and 610-3rd class passengers. During her DFDS career she crossed the Atlantic 110 times. Call sign: NPRK

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[North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.3,p.1051, subm. by Ted Finch][Lloyd's register of shipping, subm. by Gilbert Provost][DFDS 1866-1991 by Søren Thorsøe a.o., p. 264]