R.M.S. Franconia
1915
(Rhenania GLR 19a)
- Type: Passenger / general cargo
- Displacement: 18,150 tons
- Dimensions: 625 x 71 x 30 ft.
- Machinery: Steam quadruple expansion engines, twin screws = 17 knots
- Passengers: 2850 (300 first class, 350 second class, 2200 third class)
- Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Ltd, Newcastle, England, 1911
- Service: Built for the Cunard Line's Liverpool-Queenstown-Boston service. Maiden voyage 25 Feb 1911. New York-Mediterranean route in winter. Requisitioned as troopship 15 Feb 1915. Sunk by German submarine UB-47 200 miles off Malta, 4 Oct 1916; 12 lost.
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