This article is about transatlantic ocean liner. For Stockholm-area passenger ferry, see SS Drottningholm (1909).
"SS Virginian" redirects here. For other uses, see Virginian (ship).
Drottningholm in Boston in the 1920s or early 1930s
History
Name
1904: Virginian
1920: Drottningholm
1948: Brasil
1951: Homeland
Namesake
1920: Drottningholm
1948: Brazil
Owner
1905: Allan Line
1917: Canadian Pacific
1920: Swedish American Line
1948: South Atlantic Lines or
Panamanian Navigation Co
1951: Mediterranean Lines
1953: Home Lines
Operator
1905: Allan Line
1909: Allan Bros & Co (UK) Ltd
1914: Royal Navy
1920: A Jonsson Jr & VR Olburs
1931: A Jonsson
1948: Home Lines
1951: Hamburg America Line
Port of registry
1905: Glasgow
1919: Montreal
1920: Gothenburg
1948: Panama City
Route
Liverpool – Montreal (1905–14)
Gothenburg – New York
(1920–34, 1945–48)
Genoa – Rio de Janeiro (1948–50)
Genoa – New York (1950–51)
Ordered
October 1903
Builder
Alexander Stephen and Sons
Yard number
405
Launched
22 December 1904
Completed
April 1905
Commissioned
10 December 1914
Decommissioned
December 1918
Maiden voyage
6 April 1905
Refit
1920, 1951, re-engined 1922
Identification
Code letters HCJG (1905–19)
Wireless call sign: MGN (1905–19)
Pennant number (as AMC):
M 72 (August 1914 – January 1918)
MI 95 (January – April 1918)
MI 52 (April – November 1918)
Code letters KCMH (1920–33)
Call sign SJMA (1934–48)
Nickname(s)
1920: "Rollingholm", "Rollinghome"
1940s: "Trotting Home"
Fate
Scrapped 1955
General characteristics
Type
Ocean liner
Tonnage
as built: 10,754 GRT, 6,844 NRT
1922 onward: 11,055 GRT, 6,485 NRT
Length
517.0 ft (157.6 m) p/p
538.0 ft (164.0 m) o/a
Beam
60.0 ft (18.3 m)
Depth
38.0 ft (11.6 m)
Decks
3
Installed power
12,000 IHP
Propulsion
steam turbines,
three screws
Speed
18 knots (33 km/h) (1904–22)
17 knots (31 km/h) (1922–55)
Capacity
as built: 1,912 passengers
426 1st class
286 2nd class
1,000 3rd class
12,440 cu ft (352 m3) refrigerated cargo
1920–51: 1,280 passengers
280 cabin class
300 2nd class
700 3rd class
Armament
as armed merchant cruiser:
primary armament:
December 1914 – July 1916:
8 × QF 4.7-inch guns
July 1916 – November 1918:
6 × BL 6-inch & QF 6-inch guns
secondary armament:
by October 1915: 2 × 6-pdr guns
by October 1916: depth charges
Notes
sister ship: RMS Victorian
SS Drottningholm was one of the earliest steam turbine ocean liners. She was designed as a transatlantic liner and mail ship for Allan Line, built in Scotland, and launched in 1904 as RMS Virginian.
In the First World War Virginian spent a few months as a troopship and was then converted into an armed merchant cruiser (AMC). In August 1917 a U-boat damaged her with a torpedo.
In 1920 she was sold to the Swedish American Line and renamed Drottningholm. As a neutral passenger ship during the Second World War she performed notable service repatriating thousands of civilians of various countries on both sides of the war.
In 1948 Drottningholm was then sold to a company in the Italian Home Lines group, who renamed her Brasil.
In 1951 Home Lines chartered her to Hamburg America Line, and the line her name changed again, this time to Homeland.
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