SS Storstad was a steam cargo ship built in 1910 by Armstrong Whitworth at its Low Walker yard on the Tyne for the Norwegian shipping firm A. F. Klaveness of Sandefjord. She was a coal and iron ore carrier built on the Isherwood longitudinal framing system, and at her launch on 4 October 1910 she was the largest vessel built that way. She had very large hatches and ten winches for quick discharge. On 29 May 1914 she collided with the liner Empress of Ireland in fog on the St Lawrence, and her crew pulled 485 people from the water after more than 1,000 died. The Canadian Pacific Railway claimed her in damages. A German U-boat sank her in the First World War.
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built in 1910 by Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd of Newcastle
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launched on 4 October 1910
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Storstad was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-62
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Storstad was a steam cargo ship
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a single 447 nominal horsepower triple-expansion steam engine
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built in 1910 by Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd of Newcastle
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