SS Cameronia (1911)
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SS Cameronia was a twin propeller, triple-expansion, Script error: No such module "convert". passenger steamship owned by the Glasgow-based Anchor Line and built by D. and W. Henderson and Company at Glasgow in 1911.[1] The ship provided a transatlantic service from Glasgow to various destinations.
The Cameronia sailed on her maiden voyage for the Anchor Line company on 13 September 1911 on the Glasgow – Moville – New York City route.[1] In February 1915, the Cameronia was employed in a joint Anchor-Cunard company service on the Glasgow – Liverpool – New York route.[2]
On 21 June 1915 while inbound in the mouth of the Mersey the Cameronia was attacked by a U-boat. Captain Kinnaird turned to ram the U-boat which was forced to dive and then broke off her attack.[3]
The Cameronia was torpedoed on 15 April 1917 by the German U-boat Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". while en route from Marseille, France, to Alexandria, Egypt. She was serving as a British troopship at the time and contained approximately 2,650 soldiers on board. The ship sank in 40 minutes, 150 miles east of Malta; taking 210 lives.[1] Other sources report only 140 casualties.[4] Most of the crew and embarked soldiers were picked up by the escorting destroyers Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".. The remainder of the survivors had sufficient time to take to lifeboats.[5]
Scottish commodore and nautical writer David W. Bone wrote a firsthand account of the sinking of Cameronia.[6]
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- ↑ a b c SS Cameronia: The Lusitania Resource
- ↑ File:SS Cameronia Manifest – ship sunk in 1917 by German U-boat near Malta.jpg
- ↑ New York Times, 22 June 1915
- ↑ British Admiralty announcement reported in the New York Times, 19 May 1917
- ↑ Merchantman at Arms, David W Bone – 2nd Edition, 1936, Chatto and Windus, Chap XII
- ↑ Bone, David W., Merchantmen-at-Arms (London 1919) (retrieved 31 May 2022), Ch. XII of which ("The Man-o'-War's 'er 'Usband"), at p.134, tells the story of the sinking.
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