Stefan Feranc
1852-1924
Born: Sosnycia, Radymno, Yaroslav, Galicia (now Poland)
Died: Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada
1852-1924
Born: Sosnycia, Radymno, Yaroslav, Galicia (now Poland)
Died: Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt">The steamship <em>ARCADIA</em> was built for the Hamburg-America Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, and launched on 8 October 1896. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt">5,442 tons; 121,4 x 14,9 meters (length x beam); straight stem, 1 funnel, 2 masts; steel construction, screw propulsion, service speed 12 knots; accommodation for 20 passengers in 1st class, and 1,136 in steerage.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt">April 1897, maiden voyage, Hamburg-Montreal, arriving 2 May. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt">16 May 1897, stranded near Cape Ray, Newfoundland, on homeward voyage; </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt">30 May 1897, arrived Quebec for temporary repairs; proceeded to builders for reconditioning. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt">3 November 1897, first voyage, Belfast-New York-Hamburg. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt">15 December 1897, first voyage, Hamburg - Portland - Boston. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt">4 September 1900, troop transport to China (Boxer Rebellion). </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt">20 June 1908, 3 men killed when a box containing detonators exploded in storeroom IV. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt">29 December 1913, rescued the crew of the British steamship <em>TEMPLEMORE</em>, on fire in the North Atlantic. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt">25 July 1914, last voyage, Hamburg-Baltimore. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt">18 August 1914, laid up in Newport News. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt">6 April 1917, seized by the U.S. Shipping Board. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt">1920, chartered to the Acme Operation Co., Seattle. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt">1922, chartered to the California Steam Ship Co., Panama. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt">1926, scrapped.</span></p> <p><strong>Sources: Arnold Kludas and Herbert Bischoff, <em>Die Schiffe der Hamburg-Amerika Linie</em>, Bd. 1: 1847-1906 (Herford: Koehler, 1979), p. 66 (photograph); Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, <em>North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New</em> (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 1 (1975), vol. 1 (1975), p. 403.</strong></p>
<p>The record of the death of Stefan Ferenc was found in Manitoba's Vital Statistics database. </p><p>The URL is http://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/ListView.php and the record is <span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial; font-size: 11px; background-color: #bdd6d6"><strong style="font: normal normal 700 11px/normal verdana, helvetica, arial; margin-: 0px">REGISTRATION NUMBER:</strong> 1924,024270 </span></p>