The
Manxman was built at the yards of Vickers Sons and Maxim at Barrow-in-Furness; her keel was laid in 1903. She was a steel; triple-screw turbine vessel, which had an original
tonnage of 2030
GRT; length 330 feet (101 metres); beam 43 feet (13 metres); depth 18 feet. Her engines produced a boiler pressure of 200
psi and generated 10,000
indicated horsepower. This gave
Manxman a service speed of 22 knots. She was certificated to carry 2,020 passengers and had a crew complement of 80.
Apart from Isle of Man service, the ship survived use in the two World Wars.
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