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ss CALGARIAN
Yard No: 487
Shipbuilder: Fairfield Govan
Propulsion: steam - Quadruple screw - speed 18 knots
Launched: 19 April 1913
Built: 1914
Ship Type: Passenger Cargo Vessel
Ship's Role: Liverpool - Quebec then AMC
Tonnage: 17515 grt
Length: 570 feet
Breadth: 70.3 feet
Owner: Allan Line Steamers Ltd Glasgow
Status: Sunk - 01/03/1918
Web site: http://www.greatships.net/calgarian.html
Remarks: Civilian carrer cut short by the war when she was converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser. Used to blockade the port of Lisbon, later did thesameduty at New York. Torpedoed by U19 off Rathlin Island - Photo from above web page - Previous update by Stuart Cameron
Last updated: 19/04/2003 by Bruce Biddulph from the original records by Stuart Cameron
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