SS Pennland
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| History | |
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| Name | SS Pennland |
| Builder/Built | 1920 Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
| Type | Passenger liner |
| Displacement | 16,322 tons |
| Speed | 15 knots |
Remarks
Built for the America Line, and while laid down in Nov 1913, she was not completed until after a lengthy delay due to the first world war. The SS Pittsburg was chartered by the Red Star Line under her original name during 1925 and 1926, after which the Red Star Line purchased her and renamed her the SS Pennland.
SS Pennland was taken over by the British Ministry of War Transport in early 1940 and used as a troop ship until she was sunk on 25 Apr 1941 by German aircraft during the evacuation of troops from Greece along with 3 other transports and two of their escorting destroyers in the Gulf of Athens.