Description: SEE DESCRIPTION LINE STORAGGE MIL A2 SS Demerara (The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company) WW1 EPHEMERA RMSP DEMERARA SONEWHERE ON THE OCEAN 13 FEB 1915 PROGRAM Demerara, a British steamship built by Harland and Wolff at Belfast, Northern Ireland was launched on December 21, 1911. She was owned by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, London, England was 500 feet long, of 11,484 tons with a speed of 13.5 knots. She was a refrigerated meat carrier with accomodation for 933 passengers. She was equipped with wireless.Demerara was named for the river in British Guiana. Georgetown, the capital, is on the Demerara river.Demerara, under Captain G. S. Gillard, was armed with a 4.7-inch gun. She survived the war despite being torpedoed by a German submarine off La Rochelle, France on July 1, 1917. The passenger ship was torpedoed and damaged in the Bay of Biscay 6 nautical miles (11 km) west of Sables d'Olonne by SM U-84 ( Kaiserliche Marine) with the loss of a crew member. She was beached on the Île de Ré but was later refloated.[8]Her end came in 1933 when she was scrapped.
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