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USMS Portland and Southport (1874 - 1876)

(Currently working on an update after refinding her files.)

You must have INFINITE ELECTRICITY on to run this vessel!
Infinite fuel is optional, leave on to turn off smoke.
An incredible thank you to both Alex and Liam (Listed as contributors) for making this possible. Alex allowed me to rebuild his model of the S.S 'Germanic' and turn her into this fantastic liner - and to Liam, for making the thumbnail.

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Houseflag of the Oriental Steam Packet Navigation Company, drawn by me.

The helm of both liners is located in the wheelhouse just fore of their 2nd masts, respectively.
All controls of the ships are located within the wheelhouse, including some lights, navigation lights, navigation, and smoke (Both ships can run without boilers activated, however slower.)

NOTE: This ship is fictional, built for a fictional shipping line of mine, the "Oriental Steam Packet Navigation Company".
The fine, lavishly decorated ocean-going steamship 'Portland' was built in 1874 for the Oriental SPNC, in an effort to compete with the planned White Star steamships S.S 'Britannic' and 'Germanic', certain to dominate the North Atlantic trade if left unchecked. Being near identical in size, the 'Portland' was just over 470 feet in length, and was able to make 15 knots with ease ; the speed of both her rivals from the White Star, however propelled by 2 powerful reciprocating compound steam engines - being one of the first twin screw liners - Portland absolutely annihilated this speed, routinely serving at 17 knots, and easily being able to sail over 19 if her sails were unfolded in favorable conditions. She proved to be a smashing success, never being late - she could always simply speed up to arrive on time if there were any delays - and was a delightful hit with the passengers of the North Atlantic, propelling the Oriental SPNC into the spotlight of the Transatlantic trade.
Immediately after the 'Portland's' maiden voyage no less, the Oriental SPNC ordered a second vessel, the U.S.M.S 'Southport'. Designed to be identical to the Portland but building atop all of her successes and fixing many of her flaws, she too would prove to be an even more outstanding triumph in the climate of the 1880s. They were proven to be incredibly safe vessels, easing passenger worries of earlier disasters, notably 'Atlantic' tragedy of 1873, still fresh in mind just a year later. However, the 'Southport', was far less renown than her older sister. Her launch was failed, with her sliding out of slipway and ramming a pier on the opposite side of the river, severely damaging her propellers and rudder. On her maiden voyage out of Liverpool, she ran down the tramp steamer S.S 'Olonne-sur-Mer', dividing her aft of her funnel and sinking her instantly. 12 of her 60 crew would survive the tragedy, being ferried back to shore by the 'Southport'. She would be found to have substantial damage, and her compliment of 1,575 passengers were disembarked, of which they were transferred to the steamer 'Glasgow' of the Montrose Line which was in Liverpool that same day. Her maiden voyage was postponed to two weeks later. For the most part it continued normally, until she approached the Nova Scotian coast, where she was battered horribly by a winter gale, heavy hail tearing her sails and crashing down upon her decks with icy spray solidifying as she struggled through the heavy seas, weighing her down. She limped into port with some 70 tonnes of ice crushing her decks, however survived to live the rest of her life, which in spite of these incidents she throughout her life was extremely reliable, and served a successful, if considerably uneventful life.
The Oriental SPNC's services were not severely interrupted by the Great war until October of 1916 when, the U.S.M.S. 'Portland' on her 2100th voyage carrying some 1693 passengers, was, at approximately 6:57 AM, struck once by a torpedo fired from the German submarine S.M 'U-27' and suffered a massive boiler explosion (this is simulated in the scuttle option, found on her helm), sinking in just 8 minutes. Her demise was too rapid for nearly any to survive her foundering, with the steerage passengers being smothered as their quarters filled in only some 3 minutes after the detonation. By 7:05 AM, the 'Portland' was gone. Leaving behind her a field of splintered wood, deck chairs, panelings, and overturned lifeboats - none could be lowered fast enough to escape her wreckage on an even keel. Of 1693 sailing aboard the 'Portland' that morning, 1672 would perish, the remaining 21 survivors would drift for hours clinging onto wreckage and capsized boats before rescue would arrive.
The second of the trio, the U.S.M.S. 'Southport', would be coaling in Halifax on the morning of 6 December 1917, when the S.S 'Imo' and S.S 'Mont Blanc' collided, triggering the largest pre-nuclear man-man made explosion in the world, levelling Halifax and utterly destroying the 'Southport'. Her back was shattered, her masts, funnels, and upper superstructure decks, all scattered across the shoreline with the roughly 400 passengers and crew aboard her wounded or killed outright in the detonation.