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 SS Carolina
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| History | |
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| Name | SS Carolina |
| Owner | Plant Investment Co. |
| Builder | The Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |
| Cost | US$500,000 |
| Yard number | 15 |
| Christened | 30 January 1896 as La Grande Duchesse |
| Acquired | 9 April 1899 |
| Maiden voyage | 7 September 1907 |
| In service | 1896-1918 |
| Out of service | N/A |
| Fate | Sunk by gunfire from German U-boat SM U-151 on Sunday June 2, 1918. Wreck lies in approximately 240 ft (73 m) of water, roughly 65 miles east of Atlantic City, New Jersey. |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 5017 |
| Length | 380 feet |
| Beam | 47 feet |
| Draft | 33 feet |
The SS Carolina was a 380-foot-long (120 m) passenger liner; it was one of six vessels sunk on a single day during World War I by the German submarine U-151 on "Black Sunday". The wreck was rediscovered in 1995 by wreck divers John Chatterton and John Yurga.