Ships Passenger List (page 29)
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Built by Harlan & Wolff
Limited, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1905. 22,225
gross tons; 700 (bp) feet long; 74 feet wide.
Steam quadruple expansion engines, twin
screw. Service speed 17 1/2
knots. 897 passengers (420 first class,
254 second class, 223 third class). Built for Hamburg-American Line, German flag, in 1905 and named Amerika. Hamburg-New York service. Laid up at Boston in 1914. Seized by United States Army Transports, American flag, in 1914 and renamed USS America. Troopship service. Transferred to United States Lines, in 1921 and renamed America. trans-Atlantic service. Laid up 1931-40. Transferred to United States Army Transports, American flag, in 1940 and renamed USS Edmund B. Alexander. Troopship service. Laid up 1949-57. Scrapped at Baltimore in 1958. Photo: Richard Faber Collection |