SS Corcovado Archival Collection
Corcovado (1872) Pacific Steam Navigation Company
Built by Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, England. Tonnage: 3,805. Dimensions: 387' x 43'. Propulsion: Single-screw, 13 knots. Compound inverted D. A. engines. Masts and Funnels: Three masts and two funnels. Ownership Change: Vessel sold to Royal Mail Line in 1875. Renamed: Don (1875). Fate: Scrapped in 1901. Sister ship: Puno.
Corcovado (1907) Hamburg-American Line
Built by Frd. Krupp, Kiel, Germany. Tonnage: 8,374. Dimensions: 448' x 55'. Propulsion: Twin-screw, 12 knots. Quadruple expansion engines. Masts and Funnels: Two masts and one funnel. Renamed: (a) Such (1919), (b) Corcovado (1919) French, (c) Guglielmo Peirce (1920), (d) Maria Cristina (1926), (e) Mouzinho (1930). Fate: Scrapped in Italy, 1954. Sister ship: Ypiranga.
Sailing Schedule, Hamburg-New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer, Southampton, and Cherbourg, from 4 October 1912 to 20 February 1913 and Hamburg-Philadelphia from 7 October 1912 to 17 December 1912. Ships Included the Amerika, Cincinnati, Corcovado, Graf Waldersee, Hamburg, Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, Patricia, Pennsylvania, President Grant, President Lincoln, Pretoria, Prinz Adalbert, Prinz Oskar, and Victoria Luise. Assignment of Ship's Captains Included with Hamburg-New York Ships. SS Patricia Passenger List, 28 September 1912. GGA Image ID # 1ed91a7f1a
Leviathan: "The World's Greatest Ship" Volume 1
The first volume takes us from the construction of the VATERLAND to the end of World War One when the VATERLAND, now the U.S.S Leviathan, was used as a troop transport and packed with fabulous photographs and reproductions of newspaper articles.
Passenger Ships of the World - 1963
🎓 “A Global Voyage Through Steamship History for Historians, Genealogists, and Maritime Enthusiasts”
Eugene W. Smith’s Passenger Ships of the World – Past and Present (1963) is a masterfully curated encyclopedic reference that charts the rise, peak, and transformation of ocean-going passenger ships through nearly two centuries. Expanding upon his earlier Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific works, Smith offers a global maritime panorama that includes ships serving the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Oceania, as well as Canal routes and California-Hawaii shuttle lines.
🧭 This book is an essential resource for:
- Maritime historians seeking design evolution and fleet data
- Genealogists tracing voyages and shipping lines
- Educators and students studying transoceanic migration and tourism
- Ship modelers, naval architects, and enthusiasts interested in dimensions, tonnage, and speed
