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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| CAMPANIA |
102086 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1893 |
08/09/1892 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger Liner
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Govan |
Fairfield |
364 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 12884 grt / 4974 nrt / |
601.0 ft |
65.2 ft |
28.1 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Govan |
| Engine detail |
| 2 x T5cyl (37, 37, 79, 98, 98 x 69in), 3191nhp, 2- Screws |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Cunard Steam Ship Co. Ltd., Liverpool |
Liverpool |
10/04/1893 |
| Other names |
| 1915 HMS CAMPANIA |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
10/1914 Thos.W.Ward Ltd, Sheffield (for intended breaking)
11/1914 The Admiralty, London |
| Vessel history |
| 1915 converted at Cammell Laird, Birkenhead into a seaplane carrier |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1918 |
Collision 05/11/1918 |
| Disposal Detail |
Dragged anchor in a squall in the Firth of Forth, collided with HMS GLORIOUS and HMS ROYAL OAK and sank.
1947 wreck demolished with explosives. |
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SS Campania
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HMS Campania 1st Conversion
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HMS Campania April 1916
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Campania sinking
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