STEAMER AMERICA WRECKED OFF SPAIN COAST.

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THE STEAMER AMERICA WRECKED

Castellon, Spain, 10 February 1909 :

The Steamer America has been wrecked off the coast of Castellon Province,

sixty of her crew and passengers were saved.

The Steamer America was well known in Brooklyn until 1904 when she made her last voyage to Brooklyn from Marseilles as one of the Fabre Line Steamers. On this

voyage she had over 1000 Italian immigrant’s aboard, broke down and drifted a fornight

then pocked up and towed by the Italian Freight Steamer Dinnemora to the Bermudas,

hence, from the Bermudas to Brooklyn with the Italian immigrants by Luckenback Tugs.

In 1881 she was launched as the Britannia by the Royland shipbuilding yards at Liverpool. She was an iron, single screw , schooner rigged vessel, with three decks and lots of steerage with a small number of passenger cabins. 328 feet long, 40 foot wide, depth of hold of 23.4 feet . Her owner was Compagnie Francaise de Navagigation a Vapeurs and she ran the Marseilles to Brooklyn service of the Ferbe Line with a sister ship, Neustria, presumed lost at sea since she left Brooklyn last October and has not been heard of.

Since being retired by the Brooklyn run, America has traded with Spanish and

Portuguese ports with limited passengers and freight service.

Abstracts: Wednesday, 10 February, 1909, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New York.