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SS ''Waesland'' was a
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liner built by J & G Thomson of Glasgow as ''Russia''. She was launched 20 March 1867 and made her maiden voyage in June of the same year. The writer
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returned to
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on the ''Russia'' after his second tour of the
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and was fulsome in his praise of the ship. On 25 May 1869, ''Russia'' ran into the ship ''Figlia Maggiore'' of
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off Bedloes Island,
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, which sank without loss of life. She was sold to the
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in 1880 and renamed ''Waesland''. Red Star replaced her engine with a
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which, in 1889, was replaced in turn with a
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. In 1895 she was chartered to the
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for use on their services to
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. In 1902 she was in collision with the ''Harmonides'', formerly the ''Woolloomooloo'' of Lund's Blue Anchor Line, off the coast of
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and sank with the loss of two lives. For many years a painting of the ''Russia'' hung in the
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offices of Cunard.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Waesland, SS Victorian-era passenger ships of the United Kingdom Passenger ships of the United States Ships of the Cunard Line Ships of the Red Star Line Ships built on the River Clyde 1867 ships Maritime incidents in 1902 Shipwrecks in the Irish Sea Ships sunk in collisions