Andes Ship The Royal Mail Steam Packet Co¹

• (Child) Birth*: Andes Ship The Royal Mail Steam Packet Co was born in 1913 at Belfast, Ireland, ; Ship Name     Andes
  Years in service     1913-1930
  Funnels     1
  Masts     2
  Shipping Line     (a) Pacific Steam Navigation Co, (b) Royal Mail
  Aliases     Atlantis (1930)
  Line     2
  Ship description     
  Built by Harland & Wolff, Ltd., Belfast, Ireland. Tonnage: 15,620. Dimensions: 570' x 67' (589' o.l.) Triple-screw, 17 knots. Triple expansion engines and steam turbine. Two masts and one funnel.²
• (Deceased) Death*: Andes Ship The Royal Mail Steam Packet Co died in 1930 at Belfast, Ireland, , History     
  Reconditioned at Belfast in 1930 for cruising. Renamed: Atlantis (1930). Scrapped in Great Britain, 1952. Sister ships: Alcantara, Almanzora and Arlanza.²

• (Ship) Passenger List*: Andes Ship The Royal Mail Steam Packet Co passenger list included Andrew Adamson railway engine driver when she sailed on 3 September 1928 at Buenos Aires, Argentina, . First name(s) ANDREW
  Last name ADAMSON
  Gender Male
  Age 54
  Birth year 1874
  Occupation R?
  Departure year 1928
  Departure day 3
  Departure month 9
  Departure port SOUTHAMPTON
  Destination port BUENOS AIRES
  Destination BUENOS AIRES
  Country ARGENTINA
  Destination country ARGENTINA
  Ship name ANDES
  Ship official number 135497
  Ship master's first name W E
  Ship master's last name SMITH
  Shipping line THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY
  City SOUTHAMPTON
  Ship destination port BUENOS AIRES
  Ship destination country ARGENTINA
  Ship registered tonnage 9480.76
  Number of passengers 143
  Record set Passenger Lists leaving UK 1890-1960
  Category Travel & migration
  Subcategory Passenger lists
  Collections from Australasia, Great Britain, Ireland, United States.¹

Notes

• Note for Web*: Andes Ship The Royal Mail Steam Packet Co ANDES / ATLANTIS 1913
  The ANDES was a 15,620 gross ton ship, length 590ft x beam 65.3ft, (179.83m x 19.91m), one funnel, two masts, triple screw, speed 17 knots. Accommodation for 380-1st, 250-2nd and 700-3rd class passengers. Built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, she was launched for Royal Mail Steam Packet Co on 8th May 1913. She strted her maiden voyage for Pacific Steam Navigation Co on 26th Sep.1913 when she left Liverpool for Valparaiso, and subsequently sailed between Southampton and Buenos Aires with calls at Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. Used as an Armed Merchant Cruiser in WWI, she was engaged in a battle with the German raider GREIF, which was sunk. Used on convoy escort work and then used to repatriate British submarine crews trapped at Murmansk. Reconditioned in 1919, she resumed River Plate services until 1929 when she was refitted as a cruising liner for 450-1st class passengers and renamed ATLANTIS. Converted to a hospital ship in 1939, she was initially based at Alexandria, used in the Norwegian evacuation in 1940 and then sent to the Indian Ocean for the next two years. She took part in the Madagascar campaign in 1942 and in 1943 repatriated Italian prisoners of war to Lisbon and Germans to Gothenburg. She continued hospital and repatriation duties until 1946, was reconditioned to carry 900-3rd class passengers and used to carry emigrants from the UK to Australia and New Zealand. Laid up in 1952, she was scrapped the same year. [Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.5, Royal Mail Line] in 1913.³