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Valbanera
Valbanera in a Barcelona dry dock
History
SS ValbaneraSpain
NameValbanera
OwnerPinillos, Izquierdo & Co.
RouteSpain to Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Gulf Coast
BuilderCharles Connell & Co., Scotstoun
Yard number309
Launched31 October 1906
HomeportCadiz
Identification
  • Call sign JTHC
FateSank, 9 September 1919
General characteristics
TypePassenger-cargo ship
Tonnage
  • 5,099 GRT
  • 3,291 NRT
  • 7,700 DWT
Length399.7 ft (121.8 m)
Beam48.0 ft (14.6 m)
Depth21.5 ft (6.6 m)
Installed power444 Nhp
PropulsionDunsmuir & Jackson 3-cylinder triple expansion
Speed12 knots (14 mph; 22 km/h)
Capacityc. 1,200 passengers
Crew88

Valbanera was a steamship operated by the Pinillos Line of Spain from 1905 until 1919, when she sank in a hurricane with the loss of all 488 crew and passengers aboard. Valbanera was a 400-foot-long (120 m) steamer capable of carrying close to 1,200 passengers.[1] She sailed a regular route between Spain and Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Gulf Coast of the United States. The ship sank with the loss of all 488 people on board during the Florida Keys Hurricane in September 1919.

  1. ^ Barnette 2008, p. 21.

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