Hildebrand 3

Booth Line's R.M.S. "Hildebrand" 3

Built:

Cammell Laird & Company Ltd., Birkenhead

Dimensions:

439 x 60.3 x 34.6 feet

Tonnage:

Gross: 7735 Net: 4368

Propulsion:

2 x Steam turbines, 2 x water tube boilers at 490 psi producing 1200 nhp. 14 Knots

Type:

Passenger/Cargo Liner

Launched:

20/07/1951 as Hildebrand for Both Line Limited

Completed:

12/1951 and sailed on maiden voyage 28/12/1951 from Liverpool-Lisbon-Para-Manaus

Represented:

Booth Line at Coronation Spithead Revue in 1953

Grounded:

25/9/1957 on Cascais Point outside Lisbon in thick fog. No causalities

Declared:

28/10/1957 a total constructive loss

Sister ship:

Hubert 4

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Booth Line Postcard ~ Clement 2

On the 25 September 1957, bound from Liverpool to Lisbon with 164 passengers onboard, she ran aground in thick fog, on Cascais Point outside Lisbon which she was entering to disembark 17 short cruise passengers. The tugs Herakles and Em.Z.Svitzer tried to save her, but she was declared a total constructive loss on 28/10/1957.

R.M.S. Hildebrand 3 on the Amazon early 1950's ~ Painting by Wallace Trickett 2007


Hildebrand 3 painted in Antwerp 1951 by the artist Adolf Croes ~ 1898-1979

The Booth Line ran passenger services from the United Kingdom right up to Manaus - 1,000 miles up the Amazon. Founded in the 1860s, they took over the Red Cross Line in 1901 and the Iquitos Steam Ship Company in 1911. In 1946 the Booth Line was sold to the Vestey Group of companies and in 1975 all the group's ships were pooled under Blue Star Ship Management Ltd and the Booth Line ceased to exist as a separate entity.

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