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POLONIA passenger ship 1910

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu Jul 29, 2021 9:03 pm

Built as a passenger-cargo vessel under yard No 482 by Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd of Glasgow for the Danish East Asiatic Company Co, Libau.
07 July 1910 launched as the KURSK.
Tonnage 7,858 grt, 4,617 nrt, dim. 127.2 x 17.1 x 9.54m, draught 10.26m.
Powered by two four-cylinder quadruple-expansion engines manufactured by the ship builder, 1,020 nhp, twin screws, speed 16 knots.
Passenger accommodation: 120 first class, 178 second class and 1,288 third and fourth class.
September 1910 completed. Homeport Libau.

POLONIA was a passenger steamship that was built in Scotland in 1910, originally named KURSK and was registered in the Russian Empire. She was an Allied troopship in the First World War, when she was briefly operated by Cunard Line. After the war she returned to civilian passenger service, in Latvian service until 1930 and then for Poland.

02 October 1910 sailed for her maiden voyage from Libau in the service between Libau to New York.
07 July 1914 made her last voyage in this service.
05 November 1914 in the service between Glasgow and New York.
20 November 1914 first voyage from New York to Archangel

Building
The Danish East Asiatic Company ordered the ship from Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd of Glasgow. She was built as yard number 482, launched on 7 July 1910 and completed that September. She was launched as KURSK, named after the city of Kursk in western Russia.
KURSK was 450.0 ft (137.2 m) long, her beam was 56.2 ft (17.1 m) and her draught was 34 ft 0 in (10.36 m). Her tonnages were 7,500 GRT and 4,519 NRT
The ship had twin four-cylinder quadruple-expansion engines driving twin screws. Each engine had a 48-inch (120 cm) stroke and cylinders of 23+1⁄4-inch (59 cm), 33-inch (84 cm), 47-inch (120 cm) and 68-inch (170 cm) bore. Between them the engines developed 1,020 NHP. The engines were fed by six 215 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a total heating surface of 15,114 square feet (1,404 m2). Her boilers were heated by 18 corrugated furnaces with a grate surface of 363 square feet (34 m2).
Service
The East Asiatic Company registered KURSK in Liepāja (Libau) in the Russian Empire, where it had a subsidiary.
After the October Revolution the UK Shipping Controller chartered her and placed her under Cunard Line management. In 1920 she was returned to the East Asiatic Company.
By then Poland and the Baltic states had seceded from Russia and the city of Liepāja was in newly independent Latvia. The East Asiatic Company's Liepāja-registered ships all had Russian names, so the company renamed them with the names of the newly independent states. KURSK was renamed POLONIA, the Latin name for Poland.
Till 1933 she stayed in a service between the Baltic and Canada and New York,
In 1930 the East Asiatic Company sold its Latvian subsidiary to Polish owners who renamed the company Polskiego Transatlantyckiego Towarzystwa Okrętowego ("Polish Transatlantic Shipping Company Limited" or PTTO). The ships were operated by Gdynia America Line, which was restructured in 1934 to absorb PTTO.
Gdynia America Line rapidly modernised, taking delivery of the new motor ships PILSUDSKI in 1935 and BATORY in 1936 for its premier transatlantic service.
1933 The POLONIA was transferred to the Constanta, Romania to Haifa service.
The company sold POLONIA to Francesco Pittalugain Savona, Italy for scrap on 5 March 1939, a few months before two more new motor ships, SOBIESKI and CHROBRY, joined the company fleet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_POLONIA_(1910)
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