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SS Winifredian

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Singleton & Cole cigarette card depicting the SS Winifredian
History
United Kingdom
NameSS Winifredian
BuilderHarland and Wolff, Belfast
Launched11 March 1899
FateBroken up in Italy, 1929
General characteristics
TypeOcean liner
Displacement10,405 long tons (10,572 t)
Length570 ft (170 m)
Beam59 ft (18 m)
PropulsionSingle screw, triple expansion engines
Speed14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)

SS Winifredian was a passenger liner launched in 1899 for Leyland Line service between Liverpool and Boston. She carried a number of British officers and troops during the Boer War including transporting 39 officers, 535 non-commissioned officers and men, and 457 horses of the Yorkshire and South Notts Yeomanry from Liverpool to Cape Town, and journeyed from Cape Town to Southampton in September 1902 at the end of the Second Boer War[1] and served as a troopship through World War I from 1914 to 1919. Her final voyages were between Antwerp and New York City for the Red Star Line in 1927.[2]

Citations

  1. ^ "Archive Page Viewer | September 19, 1902 | The Times". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  2. ^ Emmons, Frederick (1972). The Atlantic Liners. New York: Bonanza Books. p. 39.