SS Westernland

Regina in Dominion Line livery
History
Name	1917: Regina 1929: Westernland
Owner	1918: British & N Atlantic SN Co 1920: F Leyland & Co 1935: Red Star Line 1939: Holland America Line 1942: Admiralty 1945: Ministry of War Transport 1946: South Georgia Company
Operator	1918: British & N Atlantic SN Co 1920: F Leyland & Co 1925: White Star Line 1930: Red Star Line 1939: Holland America Line 1942: Royal Navy 1945: Cunard-White Star Line 1946: Christian Salvesen
Port of registry	1918 Liverpool 1935 Hamburg 1939 Rotterdam 1942 1945 London
Route	1918–20: Liverpool – Boston 1922–25: Liverpool – Quebec – Montreal 1930–34: Antwerp – Le Havre – Southampton – New York 1935–40: Antwerp – Southampton – New York
Builder	Harland & Wolff, Govan
Yard number	454
Laid down	13 November 1913
Launched	19 April 1917
Completed	September 1918
Maiden voyage	March 1922
In service	1922
Out of service	1946
Reclassified	1940: troop ship 1942: naval repair ship 1943: destroyer depot ship
Refit	1920, 1926
Identification	UK official number 140596 code letters JVMC (1918–1933) call sign DJNW (1934–1938) call sign PINV (from 1939–1942) pennant number F 87 (1942–1945) call sign BRVM (from 1945)
Fate	Scrapped 1947
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner
Tonnage	1919: 16,314 GRT, 10,130 NRT 1923: 16,500 GRT, 9,874 NRT 1934: 16,231 GRT, 9,646 NRT 1939: 16,479 GRT, 9,595 NRT 1945: 16,289 GRT, 10,913 NRT
Length	575.3 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	1920: 600 cabin class, 1,700 third class 1935: 486 tourist class 50,480 cubic feet (1,429 m3) refrigerated cargo
Sensors and processing systems	by 1930: submarine signalling wireless direction finding by 1934: gyrocompass
Notes	sister ships: Pennland, Doric

SS Westernland was a transatlantic ocean liner that was launched as Regina in Scotland in 1917, renamed Westernland in 1929 and was scrapped in 1947. She began her career as a troop ship repatriating US troops after the Armistice of 11 November 1918. In the Second World War, Westernland served as a troop ship, repair ship and destroyer depot ship.

In her career of almost three decades she was registered in the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands and passed through the hands of at least eight different owners and operators, including several notable transatlantic shipping lines and the Royal Navy.