Sea History 067 - Autumn 1993

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of Cyprus in the proceedings. Th e threat of war thus abated , Cimbria, together with the passengers of guttural speech and military mien, quietly slipped her cables in the dark of night and departed Southwest Harbor as furtivel y as she had appeared some weeks earlier. Once again she became a popular German transatlantic liner on the Hamburg-Southampton-New York run. But not for too many years . Cimbria tt left port on 18 January 1883 with 402 ~ passengers. Having approached Bork um ~ Island by the following evening, the Hull § & Hamburg Line steamer Sultan s ud- ~ denly loomed up out of a dense fog and :i: gashed Cimbria's iron hull abreast the ~ foremast. Sultan, with an immense hole E: forward, drifted off into the ni g ht. Southwest Harbor's mackerel fl eet about the furn of the century-the same wate1front seen Cimbria, li sting to starboard , rapidly by the Russians during th eir l 878 visit. Cimbria would dwmf any of these gaff-riggers. settled by the head and sank. Although seven lifeboats got away, there were m ys teriou s visitor four summers earlier. Michigan where she was finally abanonly 54 survivors and 437 fa talities. This Cimbria went into service between doned in 1922. !, The name Cimbria did not, however, Bangor and Bar Harbor and also ran disappear from Lloyd ' s Registerof Ships down the Penobscot to Be lfast and way Stephen A. Schoff, a retired PepsiCo forever. In 1882 the Barbour Steamship landings. She was both profitable and international vice-president, has writCompany launched a Penobscot River popular until railroad and highway com- ten non-fiction articles for Yankee, steamboat at Brewer, Maine, and chris- petition killed off marine traffic east of Downeast, and Naval Hi story, among tened her Cimbria in honor of Maine's Bangor. Cimbria mi grated to Lake other publications.

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