SS Patria (1913)

Patria photographed in 1918-1919, while transporting American troops
History
France
Name	SS Patria[1]
Namesake	patria, Latin for "fatherland"
Owner	Compagnie française de Navigation à vapeur Cyprien Fabre & Cie (Fabre Line);[1] Services Contractuels des Messageries Maritimes (1940)
Operator	Services Contractuels des Messageries Maritimes (1932–40); British-India Steam Navigation Company (1940)
Port of registry	Marseille[1]
Builder	Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée[1]
Launched	11 November 1913[2][3]
In service	15[2] or 16[3] April 1914
Out of service	25 November 1940
Identification	code letters OQDZ[1] (1914–33) call sign FOHH[4] (1934–40)
Fate	sunk by sabotage 25 November 1940 scrapped 1952
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner
Tonnage	11,885 GRT[1] tonnage under deck 9,189[1] 6,744 NRT[1]
Length	487.2 ft (148.5 m)[1]
Beam	59.2 ft (18.0 m)[1]
Draught	40.1 ft (12.2 m)[1]
Installed power	900 NHP[1]
Propulsion	twin screws powered by two triple expansion steam engines[1] fed by nine boilers[2]
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)[2] or 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)[5]
Capacity	675 passengers inc. 150 1st class & 300 2nd class[2] (liner service); 2,240 passengers of which 140 1st class, 250 2nd class & 1,850 3rd class (as an emigrant ship)[5] 1,800 troops (1940)
Crew	130[3]

SS Patria was an 11,885 GRT French ocean liner built in 1913 for Compagnie française de Navigation à vapeur Cyprien Fabre & Cie (Fabre Line), for whom she was first a transatlantic liner and then an emigrant ship. From 1932 Fabre Line leased her to Services Contractuels des Messageries Maritimes, who ran her between the south of France and the Levant. After the fall of France in June 1940 the British authorities in Mandatory Palestine seized her in the Port of Haifa and placed her under the management of the British-India Steam Navigation Company. In November 1940, the Zionist movement Haganah planted a bomb aboard which sank her with the loss of between 260 and 300 lives. Patria remained a wreck in Haifa port until she was scrapped in 1952.