SS Valdivia (1886)
Valdivia in 1898 | |
| History | |
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| Namesake | |
| Owner |
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| Port of registry | |
| Builder | Armstrong, Mitchell & Co, Low Walker |
| Yard number | 496 |
| Launched | 28 August 1886 |
| Completed | October 1886 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | scrapped, 1927 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | passenger ship |
| Tonnage | 2,179 GRT, 1,372 NRT |
| Length | 309.1 ft (94.2 m) |
| Beam | 36.8 ft (11.2 m) |
| Depth | 24.0 ft (7.3 m) |
| Decks | 2 |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | 1 × screw |
| Capacity |
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| Crew | 47 |
SS Valdivia was a passenger ship that was built in England and launched in 1886 as Tijuca. She was renamed Valdivia in 1896, Tom G. Corpi in 1908 and Flandre in 1909. She had a succession of German owners until 1909, when she was bought by a French shipping company. She was scrapped in 1927.
Valdivia is the ship in which the German marine biologist Carl Chun undertook the Valdivia Expedition in 1898–99.
This was the first of three Hamburg Süd ships to be named after Tijuca, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro. The second was a passenger and cargo steamship that was built for Hamburg Süd in 1899; seized by Brazil in 1917; and renamed Baependy. A U-boat sank her in 1942, with great loss of life. The third was a cargo steamship that was built in 1923 as Ludwigshafen for Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL). Hamburg Süd chartered her from 1935, and bought and renamed her in 1938. She was surrendered to the United Kingdom in 1945; sold to Danish owners in 1946; renamed Marie Skou; and after a further change of owners and name; she was scrapped in 1959.