For other ships with the same name, see SS Regina.
Regina in Dominion Line livery
History
Name
1917: Regina
1929: Westernland
Owner
1918: British & N Atlantic SN Co
1920: F Leyland & Co
1935: Red Star Line
1939: Holland America Line
1942: Admiralty
1945: Ministry of War Transport
1946: South Georgia Company
Operator
1918: British & N Atlantic SN Co
1920: F Leyland & Co
1925: White Star Line
1930: Red Star Line
1939: Holland America Line
1942: Royal Navy
1945: Cunard-White Star Line
1946: Christian Salvesen
Port of registry
1918 Liverpool
1935 Hamburg
1939 Rotterdam
1942
1945 London
Route
1918–20: Liverpool – Boston
1922–25: Liverpool – Quebec – Montreal
1930–34: Antwerp – Le Havre – Southampton – New York
1935–40: Antwerp – Southampton – New York
Builder
Harland & Wolff, Govan
Yard number
454
Laid down
13 November 1913
Launched
19 April 1917
Completed
September 1918
Maiden voyage
March 1922
In service
1922
Out of service
1946
Reclassified
1940: troop ship
1942: naval repair ship
1943: destroyer depot ship
Refit
1920, 1926
Identification
UK official number 140596
code letters JVMC (1918–1933)
call sign DJNW (1934–1938)
call sign PINV (from 1939–1942)
pennant number F 87 (1942–1945)
call sign BRVM (from 1945)
Fate
Scrapped 1947
General characteristics
Type
Ocean liner
Tonnage
1919: 16,314 GRT, 10,130 NRT
1923: 16,500 GRT, 9,874 NRT
1934: 16,231 GRT, 9,646 NRT
1939: 16,479 GRT, 9,595 NRT
1945: 16,289 GRT, 10,913 NRT
Length
575.3 ft (175.4 m)
Beam
67.8 ft (20.7 m)
Depth
41.2 ft (12.6 m)
Decks
4
Propulsion
3 × screws
2 × triple-expansion engines
1 × exhaust steam turbine
Speed
16 knots (30 km/h)
Capacity
1920: 600 cabin class, 1,700 third class
1935: 486 tourist class
50,480 cubic feet (1,429 m3) refrigerated cargo
Sensors and processing systems
by 1930:
submarine signalling
wireless direction finding
by 1934: gyrocompass
Notes
sister ships: Pennland, Doric
SS Westernland was a transatlantic ocean liner that was launched as Regina in Scotland in 1917, renamed Westernland in 1929 and was scrapped in 1947. She began her career as a troop ship repatriating US troops after the Armistice of 11 November 1918. In the Second World War, Westernland served as a troop ship, repair ship and destroyer depot ship.
In her career of almost three decades she was registered in the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands and passed through the hands of at least eight different owners and operators, including several notable transatlantic shipping lines and the Royal Navy.
SSWesternland was a transatlantic ocean liner that was launched as Regina in Scotland in 1917, renamed Westernland in 1929 and was scrapped in 1947....
renamed Ressel. SS Pennland, 1939 — launched in 1920 as Pittsburgh. Troopship from 1940. Sunk by air raid in 1941. Sister of Westernland. SS Potsdam, 1900–15...
acquitted. Three Vichy leaders were executed. Joseph Darnand, who became an SS officer and led the Milice paramilitaries who hunted down members of the Resistance...
"Kosta Stefano" a 20 year old native of "Bulgary" who arrived on the SSWesternland from Antwerp, on August 15, 1893. Nikola was recorded "Nikola Stefanoff"...
1930. Retrieved 4 April 2019. Port of New York, passenger list of the S.S. Westernland, 24 December 1936, sheet 165. Miles, S. A. (Fall 2000). "Lady Invincible"...
to Brenmen, Germany, taking a boat to England, then another, the S.S. Westernlands, to America. He arrived in Philadelphia in 1904 with $5.00 and training...
Veendam to the route to work alongside the Red Star liners Pennland and Westernland. All four ships on the route would call at Boulogne and Southampton in...
scrapped in 1912. Westernland (1917). Launched for White Star Line as Regina. Transferred to Red Star Line in 1929 and renamed Westernland. Transferred to...
the service of the Red Star Line under the name SS Belgenland (1914), or the Regina became the Westernland. This allowed the IMM to schedule a ship each...
Kelantan (F166) SS Ranpura HMS San Giorgio (formerly Italian cruiser San Giorgio) HMS Vindictive HMS Wayland (F137) HMS Westernland (F87) These Xanthus-class...
York via Southampton and Cherbourg. Her sister ship Regina, now renamed Westernland, joined her on the route. In 1934 IMM sold Red Star Line to Arnold Bernstein...
Merchant ships: four Free French and one British Transports: Pennland and Westernland (Dutch ocean liners), Sobieski (Polish ocean liner) and three more 101...
clashed with the Foreign Office and the Admiralty – was that a French ship, SS Providence, was allowed to sail unchallenged between Beirut and Marseille...
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