SS Reina Victoria-Eugenia

1914 postcard of Reina Victoria-Eugenia
History
Spain
Name	1912: Reina Victoria-Eugenia 1931: Argentina
Namesake	1912: Queen Victoria Eugenie 1931: Argentina
Owner	Compañía Transatlántica Española
Operator	Cía Transatlántica Española
Port of registry	Barcelona
Route	Barcelona – Buenos Aires
Builder	Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Low Walker
Yard number	884
Launched	26 September 1912
Completed	February 1913
Maiden voyage	12 March 1913
Identification	1913: code letters JFGW by 1914: call sign EDU by 1934: call sign EAIE
Fate	Sunk by air attack, raised, scrapped
General characteristics
Type	ocean liner
Tonnage	10,137 GRT, 5,564 NRT
Length	480.0 ft (146.3 m)
Beam	61.3 ft (18.7 m)
Draught	25.0 ft (7.6 m)
Depth	32.7 ft (10.0 m)
Decks	3
Installed power	1,484 NHP
Propulsion	2 × triple-expansion steam engines 2 × low-pressure steam turbines 4 × screws
Speed	maximum: 18.6 knots (34.4 km/h) cruising: 16 knots (30 km/h)
Capacity	200 × 1st class 46 × "interchangeable" class 100 × 2nd class 80 × 3rd class 1,640 × 3rd & emigrant classes
Crew	250
Sensors and processing systems	by 1914: submarine signalling by 1926: wireless direction finding
Armament	passive provision for four naval guns
Notes	sister ship: Infanta Isabel de Borbon

SS Reina Victoria-Eugenia was a steam ocean liner and mail ship launched in 1912 in England and operated by the Compañía Transatlántica Española (CTE). She and her sister ship Infanta Isabel de Borbon represented a significant modernisation of CTE's fleet of ageing and obsolescent ships.

After the Second Spanish Republic was declared in 1931 Reina Victoria-Eugenia was renamed Argentina. She was laid up from 1932.

In 1939 a Nationalist air attack on the Port of Barcelona sank Argentina at her moorings. Her wreck had been raised by 1940 and was scrapped in 1945.