Built by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company,
Glasgow, Scotland, 1893. 12950 gross tons; 622 (bp) feet
long; 65 feet wide. Steam triple expansion engines, twin
screw. Service speed 21 knots. 2000 passengers ( 600 first
class, 400 second class, 1000 third class ).
Built for Cunard Line, British flag, in
1893 and named Campania. Liverpool-New York service. Sold
to British Admiralty, British flag, in 1914 and renamed
HMS Campania. Rebuilt as an aircraft carrier. Sunk following
a collision in the Firth of Forth in Scotland in 1918.
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