SS Russian (1895)

History
United Kingdom
Name	1895: Victorian 1914: Russian
Owner	F Leyland & Co
Operator	1903: White Star Line
Port of registry	Liverpool
Route	1895: Liverpool – Boston 1903: Liverpool – New York 1909: Liverpool – Gulf of Mexico
Builder	Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Yard number	291
Launched	6 July 1895
Completed	31 August 1895
Maiden voyage	7 September 1895
Identification	UK official number 105334 code letters PBGC by 1914: call sign MYY
Fate	Sunk by torpedo, 14th December 1916
General characteristics
Type	cargo liner
Tonnage	8,825 GRT, 5,753 NRT, 10,500 DWT
Length	512.5 ft (156.2 m)
Beam	59.2 ft (18.0 m)
Depth	35.0 ft (10.7 m)
Decks	3
Installed power	718 NHP
Propulsion	1 × triple-expansion engine 1 × screw
Sail plan	four-masted schooner
Notes	sister ships: Armenian, Cestrian

SS Russian was a British cargo liner that was launched in Ireland in 1895 as Victorian. In her first few years she carried cattle from Boston to Liverpool. From 1903 she carried cattle from New York to Liverpool. From 1908 she traded between the Gulf Coast of the United States and Liverpool. Leyland Line owned her throughout her career, but White Star Line managed her from 1903. She was renamed Russian in 1914.

In the Second Boer War she took troops and horses to and from South Africa. In the First World War she took mules from Virginia to Egypt. A U-boat sank her in the Mediterranean in 1916.