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| − | | data3 = 1915 Barclay, Curie & Co Ltd
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| − | | data5 = 6,852 tons
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| − | ==Remarks==
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| − | The ''SS Kościuszko'' was a Polish passenger ship, named after Tadeusz Kościuszko.
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| − | She was originally a liner named ''Tsarina'', and later ''Lituania'', before becoming the ''Kościuszko'' and afterwards ''Empire Helford''.
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| − | It was ordered by the Russian American Line prior to the outbreak of World War I and was to serve as an ocean liner under the name ''SS Czaritza'' or ''Tsarina'',
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| − | operating with up to 1000 passengers between New York and Arkhangelsk. When finally placed in peacetime service it carried 712 passengers.
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| − | Launched in 1915 by Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow, she served as a troop transport ship.
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| − | Evacuated from Russia during the Russian Civil War, she was bought by Cunard Line in 1917 and was used as a troop transport between USA and Europe and between Great Britain and Malta.
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| − | Sold in 1946, it was scrapped in 1950. (In 1940 it was armed with 4 x 20mm Oerliken anti-aircraft guns.)
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| − | ==Soldiers carried==
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| − | ==England to Alexandria 16 March - 7 May 1919==
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| − | *[[Arthur James Allen]]
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| − | *[[Jesse Thomas Manser]] Only as far as Alexandria
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