SS Drottningholm

Drottningholm in Boston in the 1920s or early 1930s
History
Name	1904: Virginian 1920: Drottningholm 1948: Brasil 1951: Homeland
Namesake	1920: Drottningholm 1948: Brazil
Owner	1905: Allan Line 1917: Canadian Pacific 1920: Swedish American Line 1948: South Atlantic Lines or Panamanian Navigation Co 1951: Mediterranean Lines 1953: Home Lines
Operator	1905: Allan Line 1909: Allan Bros & Co (UK) Ltd 1914: Royal Navy 1920: A Jonsson Jr & VR Olburs 1931: A Jonsson 1948: Home Lines 1951: Hamburg America Line
Port of registry	1905: Glasgow 1919: Montreal 1920: Gothenburg 1948: Panama City
Route	Liverpool – Montreal (1905–14) Gothenburg – New York (1920–34, 1945–48) Genoa – Rio de Janeiro (1948–50) Genoa – New York (1950–51)
Ordered	October 1903
Builder	Alexander Stephen and Sons
Yard number	405
Launched	22 December 1904
Completed	April 1905
Commissioned	10 December 1914
Decommissioned	December 1918
Maiden voyage	6 April 1905
Refit	1920, 1951, re-engined 1922
Identification	Code letters HCJG (1905–19) Wireless call sign: MGN (1905–19) Pennant number (as AMC): M 72 (August 1914 – January 1918) MI 95 (January – April 1918) MI 52 (April – November 1918) Code letters KCMH (1920–33) Call sign SJMA (1934–48)
Nickname(s)	1920: "Rollingholm", "Rollinghome" 1940s: "Trotting Home"
Fate	Scrapped 1955
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner
Tonnage	as built: 10,754 GRT, 6,844 NRT 1922 onward: 11,055 GRT, 6,485 NRT
Length	517.0 ft (157.6 m) p/p 538.0 ft (164.0 m) o/a
Beam	60.0 ft (18.3 m)
Depth	38.0 ft (11.6 m)
Decks	3
Installed power	12,000 IHP
Propulsion	steam turbines, three screws
Speed	18 knots (33 km/h) (1904–22) 17 knots (31 km/h) (1922–55)
Capacity	as built: 1,912 passengers 426 1st class 286 2nd class 1,000 3rd class 12,440 cu ft (352 m3) refrigerated cargo 1920–51: 1,280 passengers 280 cabin class 300 2nd class 700 3rd class
Armament	as armed merchant cruiser: primary armament: December 1914 – July 1916: 8 × QF 4.7-inch guns July 1916 – November 1918: 6 × BL 6-inch & QF 6-inch guns secondary armament: by October 1915: 2 × 6-pdr guns by October 1916: depth charges
Notes	sister ship: RMS Victorian

SS Drottningholm was one of the earliest steam turbine ocean liners. She was designed as a transatlantic liner and mail ship for Allan Line, built in Scotland, and launched in 1904 as RMS Virginian.

In the First World War Virginian spent a few months as a troopship and was then converted into an armed merchant cruiser (AMC). In August 1917 a U-boat damaged her with a torpedo.

In 1920 she was sold to the Swedish American Line and renamed Drottningholm. As a neutral passenger ship during the Second World War she performed notable service repatriating thousands of civilians of various countries on both sides of the war.

In 1948 Drottningholm was then sold to a company in the Italian Home Lines group, who renamed her Brasil.

In 1951 Home Lines chartered her to Hamburg America Line, and the line changed her name again, this time to Homeland.

Homeland was scrapped in Italy in 1955.