History | |
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Italy | |
Name | Verona |
Namesake | Verona |
Owner |
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Port of registry | Genoa |
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Builder | Workman, Clark & Co, Belfast |
Yard number | 271 |
Launched | 31 March 1908 |
Completed | May 1908 |
Maiden voyage | 19 June 1908 |
Identification |
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Fate | Sunk, 11 May 1918 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ocean liner |
Tonnage | 8,261 GRT, 5,068 NRT |
Length | 482.3 ft (147.0 m) |
Beam | 58.3 ft (17.8 m) |
Depth | 26.2 ft (8.0 m) |
Installed power | 1,221 NHP |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
Capacity | 1908: 60 first class, 2,500 third class |
Troops | 3,000 |
Notes | sister ships: Taormina, Ancona |
SS Verona was a transatlantic ocean liner that was built in Ireland in 1908 for an Italian shipping line. She was a troop ship in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12 and in the First World War in 1917–18. In 1918 a German submarine sank her in the Mediterranean with great loss of life.