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HMT Saxonia
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History
Name HMT Saxonia
Owner Cunard Steam Ship Co. Ltd., Liverpool
Builder John Brown & Co. Ltd., Clydebank
Yard number 339
Launched 16 Dec 1899
Completed April 1900
In service 22 May 1900
Out of service 1925
Fate broken up
General characteristics
Type Passenger liner / cargo ship
Tonnage 14,281 tons
Length 580.0 ft (176.78m)
Beam 64.2 ft (19.56m)
Depth 30.4 ft (9.25m)
Propulsion twin screw
Speed 15 knots (27.78 km/h)



Remarks

Built for the Cunard Line to ply the Liverpool to Boston and Liverpool to New York routes. When the United Kingdom entered World War I in August 1914, Saxonia was requisitioned for government service and taken off her then Trieste-Boston route.


She made a single voyage as a troopship, then was tied up in England on the River Thames as an accommodation ship for German prisoners of war. In March 1915, she resumed service as a troopship, receivig a major refit in 1920. Initially she could carry 164 first class, 200 second class, and 1,600 third class passengers, but this was reduced to 1,449 total after her 1920 refit. In 1925, the aging and outdated Saxonia was sold to the Hendrik Ido Ambacht company in the Netherlands for scrapping.

Soldiers carried

Alexandria to Marseilles 28 March - 3 April 1916