Cameronia, 1920

Item

Identifier: imm-0052

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Immigration and Steamships database contains descriptive information about 320 passenger and immigrant vessels built from 1833 to 1929. Records may identify the vessel, year built, shipping line, builder and place of construction, tonnage and dimensions, machinery and speed, masts and funnels, passenger capacities, routes, and vessel history. Most records are associated with one or more images from Mystic Seaport Museum collections.

Dates

Creation: 1920

Extent

From the Collection: 320 record(s)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

General

Vessel Details

Line: Anchor Line

Builder and location: Wm. Beardmore & Co., Glasgow, Scotland

Tonnage and dimensions: 16,297 tons; 552' x 70'

Machinery and speed: Twin-screw, 15.5 knots

Masts and funnels: 2 masts, 1 funnel

Passengers: 1st class: 265; 2nd class: 370; 3rd class: 1,100

Routes: Glasgow-Liverpool-NY

History: Carried 186,770 passengers from maiden voyage to August 1939. Troopship in WWII. Torpedoed Dec. 1942, but made port and resumed war service in 1943. Reconditioned for Australian immigrant service in 1948. Renamed EMPIRE CLYDE (1953). Scrapped 1958.

Legacy record identifier: Cameronia1920