SS Waesland

SS Waesland was a Cunard liner built by J & G Thomson of Glasgow as Russia.

The writer Charles Dickens returned to England on the Russia after his second tour of the United States and was fulsome in his praise of the ship.

[1] On 25 May 1869, Russia ran into the ship Figlia Maggiore of Trieste off Bedloes Island, New York City, which sank without loss of life.

In 1902 she was in collision with the Harmonides, formerly the Woolloomooloo of Lund's Blue Anchor Line, off the coast of Anglesey and sank with the loss of two lives.

[3] For many years a painting of the Russia hung in the London offices of Cunard.

The British and North American Royal Steam-ship 'Russia', of the Cunard Line. Illustrated London News 1867
Collision between the Waesland and a whale - The Picture Magazine 1894
The boats getting away from the side of the sinking Waesland . The Sphere 1902, by Charles de Lacy