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Builder: Cammell, Laird& Co Ltd, Birkenhead, England.
Completed : September 1913.
Gross tonnage: 11015.
Dimensions: 530ft x 61 ft. Depth 33ft.
Engines:Twofour-cylinder, quadruple-expansion engines and two lowpressure
turbines. double-reduction geared.
Screws: Twin.
Watertight bulkheads,Eight.
Decks: Three.
Normal speed: 15 knots.
Passenger accommodation : 32 first and 969 tourist class.
Maiden voyage: Genoa–Rio de Janeiro–Buenos Aires on January 13, 1947.
Built for the Norwegian -America Line and christened Bergensfjord. Sold to the Home
Lines in November 1946 and renamed ARGENTINA. Engaged in the South American trade
until September 1949 when her route was limited to the Genoa–Central American trade.
Reallocated once again in the spring of 1952 to the Genoa-Naples–New York. service. Sold to
the Zim Lines in the spring of 1953 and renamed JERUSALEM: ALIYA in 1957. Laid up in May
1958 and sold to the Terrestse Marittima for scrapping at Spezia , Italy in October 1959.

Norway SG223-225, 349-351,442,464,443,465,444,466.

North Atlentic Passenger Liners since 1900 by Nicholas T Cairis.

Built as a passenger-cargo vessel under yard 787 by Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd., Birkenhead for the A/S Den Norske Amerikalinje (HAL), Bergen, Norway.
08 April 1913 launched as the BERGENSFJORD (I).
Tonnage 10.666 gross, 6.475 net, dim. 512.4 x 61.2 x 29.4ft.
Powered by two 4-cyl. quadruple-expansion steam engines, manufactured by the shipbuilder, 1.469 nhp. twin shafts, speed 15 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 105 first class, 216 2nd class and 760 3rd class.
September 1913 delivered to owners.

25 September 1913 she sailed for her maiden voyage from Christianis (Oslo) via Christiansand, Stavanger, Bergen to New York.
1921 Her tonnage given as 10.709 gross, 6.448 net.
July 1924 after leaving Bergen she got an engine room explosion and was beached, the passengers were transferred to other ships.
26 September 1924 after repair resumed her service between Christiana to New York.
November 1925 her passenger accommodation given as cabin 367, 3rd class 572.
1926 Tonnage given as 11.013 gross, 6.406 net.
September 1927 passenger accommodation given as cabin 90, tourist 155, 3rd 500.
1930 Tonnage given as 11.015 gross, 6.550 net.
1932 Fitted out with two low-pressure steam turbines by AG Weser.
January 1939 passenger accommodation given as cabin and 3rd class.
07 April 1940 sailed from Bergen for New York and after arrival in New York on 15 April 1940 laid up after Norway was invaded by German troops.
November 1940 requisitioned by the Ministry of War Transport (UK)
Thereafter converted in Halifax, Canada to a troop ship.
Her wartime career you can find on http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/bergensfjord.html
By the end of the war she had carried a total of 165.000 troops, and sailed 300.000 miles, and had been at sea for 919 days.
February 1946 chartered for one voyage to carry GI brides from Europe to the USA, thereafter handed back to the HAL.

August 1946 sold to Panamanian Lines Inc., managed by Fratelli Cosulich, Trieste, renamed ARGENTINA.
Fitted out for the emigrant trade between Italy to South America, passenger accommodation given as 126 first, cabin 250, tourist 574.
September 1949 first voyage from Genoa to central America, her passenger accommodation is then given as 32 first and 969 tourist class.
1949 Owners restyled in Mediterranean Lines Inc., Panama with the same managers.
13 July 1951 first voyage from New York to Naples and Genoa.
August 1951 first voyage from Genoa via Naples to Halifax.
September 1951 the service was extended to New York.
November 1952 last voyage from Naples via Genoa, Lisbon, Halifax to New York.
1952 Sold to Home Lines Inc., Panama.
In 1952 she made a round voyage from New York to Hamburg.
20 December 1952 she left for the last time New York for the Home Lines bound for the Mediterranean.
1953 Sold to Zim Israel Navigation Co. Ltd., Israel and renamed JERUSALEM.
Passenger accommodation given as 38 first and 741 tourists.
29 April 1953 first voyage from Haifa, Limasol, Malta, Cannes, Halifax to New York.
August 1955 made her last voyage from Haifa, made for the ZIM 11 round voyages in this service.
1957 Renamed by owners in ALIYA, used in the Israel to Marseilles service.

13 August 1959 arrived at La Spezia for breaking up by Terrestre Marittima.

The ship is showed on the stamp off the North Cape of North Norway.

Source: North Atlantic Seaway by Bonsor. Norwegian America Line 1910-1995 by Pedersen and Hawks.
Lloyds Register. Log Book.