Gemiler - SS Byzantin

SS Byzantin=

İmalatçı=La Seyna-Sur-Mer Ağırlık=906 groston Boy=53.9 m En=10.7 m S.Ç=6.4 m M.G=140 n.h.p Hız=10 knot

Sahibi:Cie.Marseillaise De Navigation A Vapeur-Fraissinet & Cie,Marseille

SS Byzantin,Fransız yapımı ve demir gövdeli bir yolcu gemisidir.The French passenger steamship Byzantin was bound from Marseilles to Constantinople with some 260 persons on board.When approaching Gallipoli she ran into a storm which had been raging for several days. At about one o´clock on the afternoon of December 18th, 1878, when off Lampsaki, the Byzantin endeavoured to come to anchor near the British steamship Rinaldo, 1,660 tons, which was lying with two anchors down awaiting her bill of health from shore.The violence of the gale swept the French ship across the bows of the Rinaldo, with which she collided. Meanwhile a large number of passengers had assembled on deck, many of them rendered helpless by fear.The captain of the Rinaldo called upon these people to jump on to his ship, and this a number of them did. The vessels then separated and within five minutes the Byzantin foundered, taking with her about 150 persons.The Rinaldo lowered her boats, but they were blown out to sea without being able to render any aid to the drowning. The number saved by the Rinaldo was 94. Later H.M.S. Flamingo went in search of the missing boats, which she recovered.Olayı haber alan Vindomara buharlısı toplam 19 kişiyi kurtardı.Rinaldo ise İstanbul'a varabilmiş ve kurtulanları gemiden indirdikten sonra onarıma alınmıştır.