SS Frederica (1890)

History
Name:	1890-1912:SS Frederica 1912-1914:SS Nilufer
Operator:	1885-1911:London and South Western Railway 1911-1912:Idarei Massouseih, Constantinople 1912-1914:Administration de Navigation a Vapeur Ottomane, Constantinople
Port of registry:
Builder:	J and G Thomson, Clydebank
Yard number:	250
Launched:	5 June 1890
Out of service:	22 November 1914
Fate:	Sunk by a mine
General characteristics
Tonnage:	1,059 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	253 feet (77 m)
Beam:	35.1 feet (10.7 m)
Draught:	14.8 feet (4.5 m)

SS Frederica was a passenger vessel built for the London and South Western Railway in 1890.

History

The ship was built by J and G Thomson of Clydebank and launched on 5 June 1890 for the fast mail and passenger service between Southampton and the Channel Islands. She was one of an order of three ships, the others being Lydia and Stella. She was in Southampton and dressed for the opening of the new deep-water dock by Queen Victoria on 26 July 1860. Her arrival in Guernsey on 31 July 1860 at 6.23 am was witnessed by many observers, and she then departed at 7.00am and travelled to Jersey, arriving at 8.33am to be witnessed by a thousand people on the pier at Jersey. On 4 September 1890 she broke the record for the fastest passage from Guernsey to Southampton, departing at 10.15 am and arriving in Southampton Docks at 3.30pm, a journey time of 5 hours 15 minutes In October the same year, the journey was achieved in 5 hours 8 minutes.

In 1911 she was sold to Idarei Massousieh in Constantinople, and in the following year she was sold to the Administration de Navigation a Vapeur Ottomane, Constantinople and renamed Nilufer. She was deployed as a mine layer in 1914 and was sunk by a Bulgarian mine in the Black Sea near Rila on 22 November 1914.