SS Vestris was a 1912 steam ocean liner operated by Lamport and Holt Line. On 12 November 1928 she began listing about 200 miles off Hampton Roads, Virginia, was abandoned, and sank, killing more than 100 people. Her wreck is thought to lie some 1. 2 miles beneath the North Atlantic.
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SS Vestris was a 1912 steam ocean liner operated by Lamport and Holt Line. On 12 November 1928 she began listing about 200 miles off Hampton Roads, Virginia, was abandoned, and sank, killing more than 100 people. Her wreck is thought to lie some 1. 2 miles beneath the North Atlantic. The sinking attracted much press coverage at the time and remains notable for the loss of life, particularly of women and children when the ship was being abandoned. It may also have shaped the second International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea in 1929. Vandyck, Vauban and Vestris were intended for Lamport. and Holt’s service between Liverpool and Buenos Aires via Vigo, Leixões and Lisbon. But soon after World War I began the German cruiser SMS Karlsruhe captured and sank Vandyk on 26 October 1914.
In September 1919, Vestris, carrying 550 people, suffered damage from a fire in her coal bunkers. The crew fought the fire for four days before either HMS Dartmouth or HMS Yarmouth escorted the ship to Saint Lucia in the West Indies. In 1922 the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company briefly chartered Vestris. On 10 November 1928, just before 16: 00, Vestris left New York bound for the River Plate with 128 passengers and 198 crew. She had five double-ended boilers to supply steam to a pair of quadruple-expansion engines. These drove twin screws and gave her a speed of 15 knots. In 1919 Vestris completed this circuit six times. By 1923 the three ships offered regular fortnightly sailings on the triangular route.
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