Poster image of SS Bothnia
History
United Kingdom
Name	SS Bothnia
Namesake	Bothnia
Owner	Cunard Line
Port of registry	Liverpool
Builder	J. & G. Thomson & Co., Clydebank
Yard number	128
Launched	4 March 1874
Completed	June 1874
Maiden voyage	8 August 1874
Identification	Official number: 68094 Code letters: MVKQ
Fate	Scrapped, 1899
General characteristics
Type	Steamship
Tonnage	4,535 GRT 2,923 NRT
Length	422 ft 2 in (128.68 m)
Beam	42 ft 2 in (12.85 m)
Depth	18 ft 11 in (5.77 m)
Propulsion	1 × 600 hp (447 kW) steam compound steam engine
Sail plan	Barque-rigged
Speed	12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph)
Capacity	1,400 passengers: 300 × 1st class 1,100 × 3rd class

SS Bothnia was a British steam passenger ship that sailed on the trans-Atlantic route between Liverpool and New York City or Boston. The ship was built by J & G Thomson of Clydebank, and launched on 4 March 1874 for the British & North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, which became the Cunard Line in 1879.^[1]

Constructed with an iron hull ship, and 4,535 gross register tons, and with a length of 422 feet. She was powered by a 600 hp 2-cylinder compound steam engine, barque-rigged on three masts, and had a top speed of 121⁄2 knots. She could carry up to 1,400 passengers, 300 in first class and 1,100 in 3rd class.^[1]

Bothnia sailed on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York via Queenstown on 8 August 1874, and on 15 April 1885, made her first voyage from Liverpool to Boston. She was withdrawn from service in mid-1898 and then sold, and was scrapped in Marseille in 1899.^[2]

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