SS Antilles (1906)

Postcard of Antilles
History
United States
Name	Antilles
Operator	Southern Pacific SS Co US Army Chartered Transport 1917
Builder	William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
Launched	3 December 1906[1]
Identification	US official number 204018 code letters KWBN by 1913: call sign KKA
Fate	Sunk by U-62, 17 October 1917
General characteristics
Type	Passenger-cargo ship
Tonnage	6,878 GRT 4,326 NRT
Displacement	10,500 tons (normal coal supply)
Length	421 ft 11.5 in (128.6 m) on load line 410.0 ft (125.0 m) registered
Beam	53.2 ft (16.2 m)
Draft	mean: 26 ft (7.9 m)
Depth	25.6 ft (7.8 m)
Decks	3
Installed power	860 NHP
Propulsion	1 × triple-expansion engine 1 × screw

SS Antilles was a US passenger-cargo ship launched in 1906. Chartered by the US Army in 1917 for use as a troop transport, Antilles was sunk by a German U-boat on 17 October 1917, resulting in the loss of 67 lives. At the time of its sinking the Antilles was the largest single largest loss of US lives to that point in World War I.