SS Pennland

Pennland in Red Star Line service
History
Name	1920: Pittsburgh 1926: Pennland
Namesake	1920: Pittsburgh 1926: Pennsylvania
Owner	1922: International Nav Co 1928: F Leyland & Co 1934: Red Star Line 1939: Holland America Line
Operator	1922: White Star Line 1928: Red Star Line 1939: Holland America Line
Port of registry	1922: Liverpool 1935: Hamburg 1939: Rotterdam
Route	1922: Liverpool – Boston – Philadelphia 1922–23: Bremen – Southampton – Halifax – New York 1923: Hamburg – Southampton – Halifax – New York 1928: Antwerp – Southampton – Cherbourg – New York 1935: Antwerp – Le Havre – Southampton – Halifax – New York
Yard number	457
Laid down	November 1913
Launched	11 November 1920
Completed	25 May 1922
Maiden voyage	6 June 1922
Reclassified	1940: troop ship
Refit	1935
Identification	UK official number 145933 code letters KMDT (1922–33) call sign GFJS (1934) call sign DJNX (1935–39) call sign PGRX (1939–41)
Fate	Sunk 25 April 1941
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner
Tonnage	1923: 16,322 GRT, 9,856 NRT 1934: 16,082 GRT, 9,513 NRT
Length	575.4 ft (175.4 m)
Beam	67.8 ft (20.7 m)
Depth	41.2 ft (12.6 m)
Decks	4
Propulsion	3 × screws 2 × triple-expansion engines 1 × exhaust steam turbine
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h)
Capacity	1922: 600 cabin class, 1,500 third class 1935: 486 or 550 tourist class 19,920 cubic feet (564 m3) refrigerated cargo
Crew	as troop ship: about 300
Sensors and processing systems	by 1930: submarine signalling wireless direction finding
Notes	sister ships: Westernland, Doric

SS Pennland was a transatlantic ocean liner that was launched as Pittsburgh in Ireland in 1920 and renamed Pennland in 1926. She had a succession of UK, German and Dutch owners and operators. In 1940 she was converted into a troopship.

In 1941 a Luftwaffe air attack crippled her in the Mediterranean, so her Royal Navy escort sank her by gunfire. She is now a shipwreck in the Saronic Gulf.