SS Volturno (1906)
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SS Volturno was an ocean liner that caught fire and was eventually scuttled in the North Atlantic in October 1913. She was a Royal Line ship under charter to the Uranium Line at the time of the fire.
Steamship Volturno
SS Volturno departing from Rotterdam (1913)
'The Burning of the S.S. Volturno'; undated painting by William Shackleton
The burning SS Volturno during rescue operation
RMS Carmania (1905)
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RMS Carmania was a Cunard Line transatlantic steam turbine ocean liner. She was launched in 1905 and scrapped in 1932. In World War I she was first an armed merchant cruiser and then a troop ship. Car
SS Volturno (1906)
…aboard were launched; all either capsized or were smashed by the ship's hull, leaving no one alive from the first boats. Captain James Clayton Barr of RMS Carmania, the first ship to arrive, at around noon, took command of the rescue effort. Barr had the other nine vessels form a "line of battle" and slowly circle…
Carmania in 1905
"Carmania sinking Cap Trafalgar off Trindade, September 14, 1914" by Charles Dixon