BIC Cristóbal Colón Cámarillo (1911)

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BIC Cristóbal Colón Cámarillo
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The BV Cristóbal Colón Cámarillo in 1911.
History
Creeperopolis
Name: BV Cristóbal Colón Cámarillo
Namesake: Cristóbal Colón Cámarillo
Owner: Gold Star Line
Ordered: 13 September 1907
Builder: Díaz–Mori Shipbuilding
Laid down: 16 December 1908
Launched: 20 October 1910
Completed: 31 May 1911
In service: 11 June 1911
Homeport: Salvador
Fate:
History
Creeperopolis
Name: BIC Cristóbal Colón Cámarillo
Owner: Creeperopolis Creeperian Navy
Acquired: 6 January 1933
Commissioned: 18 June 1933
Homeport: Salvador
Nickname(s): El Grande
Fate:
  • Scuttled
  • 28 December 1941
Status: Wreck
General characteristics
Class and type: Cristóbal Colón Cámarillo-class
Type: Ocean liner
Tonnage: 45,324
Length: 965 pi 4 pl (882 ft 6 in)
Beam: 101 pi 5 pl (92 ft 9 in)
Height: 191 pi 5 pl (175 ft)
Draught: 37 pi 10 pl (34 ft 7 in)
Decks: 9 decks
Installed power: 30 boilers
Propulsion:
  • Two bronze three-bladed wing propellers
  • One bronze four-bladed center propeller
Speed: 30.56 mch (26.46 mph)
Boats & landing
craft carried:
36 lifeboats
Capacity: 2,435 passengers (until 1933)
Troops: 3,000 (after 1933)
Crew: 950

BIC Cristóbal Colón Cámarillo, formerly called the BV Cristóbal Colón Cámarillo, was a Creeperian ocean liner turned troop ship built in 1911. It was owned and operated by the Gold Star Line from 1911 until 1933, when it was requisitioned by the Creeperian Navy for use as a troop transport ship during the Creeperian Civil War. The ship was scuttled on 28 December 1941 during an encounter with the BNC DA-4 submarine of the National Council for Peace and Order to prevent her capture.