Drottningholm
1940
(Albatros AL-71A)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 11,285 tons
- Dimensions: 538 x 60 x 32 ft.
- Machinery: Steam turbines, triple screw = 16.5 knots
- Passengers: 1386 (532 cabin class, 854 third class)
- Builder: Alexander Stephen & Sons Limited, Glasgow, Scotland, 1905
- Service: Built as Virginian for the Glasgow-based Allan Line service between Liverpool and eastern Canada. She and her sister ship Victorian were the first steam-turbine-driven liners on the North Atlantic and were considered very successful. Sold to the Swedish-American Line in 1920 and renamed Drottningholm. Served as a neutral repatriation ship during World War 2. Sold to the Home Lines of Panama in 1948 and renamed Brazil and then later Homeland. Scrapped in Italy in 1955.
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