26 Jakob Jebsen-Juliane - Handels- og Søfartsmuseet

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ss J. C. la Cour. NLJW. /OYLB. III -
Shipbuilding & Shipping Record 26/I0 1933:
The sale of the steamer "J. C. la Cour" by United
Steamship Company to the Hughes Bolckow Shipbreaking Co.
of Blyth, means the end of a very famous North Sea packet
rendered obsolete by the remarkable improvement in the materiel
of the Forenede Line on its very important Harwich-
Esbjerg service. She was built by the Elsinore yard at El-sinore
in 19ol, a steel singlescrew steamer of I.615 Tons .
gross, with triple-expansion englnes, designed for a speed
of 15 knots. She carried the mails, a quantity of dairy
produce and first class passengers, while her tween decks
were adapted for the carriage of Danish emigrants who generally
then crossed the North Sea to England and transshipped
here. Her most remarkable faature, however, was
her wonderful seaworthiness for although she was a quite
small vessel, she was one of the best sea boats ever built,
and long after her standard of luxury was far surpassed
by the more modern units, there were old travellers who
were always glad to see her taken out of the reserve. Du- •
ring the war, when Harwich was used for naval purposes, ;
she ran on various services across the North Sea, and af- '
ter the Armistice was on the Copenhagen - Christiania ser-;
vice for a spell, but the Harwich - Esbjerg route was her '.
real one and she was excellently suited for it. After the
new motor fleet was completed, the old "J. C. la Cour"
was kept in reserve, but she occationally had to be brought
out and, in spite of her age, was always very speedy, keeping
a Schedule time in bad weather that would have been
a credit to a far bigger ship with more powerfull and more
modern machinery.