S.S. Pennsylvania built 1896 by Harland & Wolff, Ltd., Belfast, Ireland. Tonnage: 13,333. Dimensions: 559' x 62'. Twin-screw, 13 1/2 knots. Quadruple expansion engines. Four masts and one funnel. Passengers: 160 first, 180 second, 2,200 third. Service: Hamburg-New York. WWI Service: Renamed: Nansemond (1917) United States troopship. Fate: Scrapped in 1924. Sister ships: Graf Waldersee, Patricia and Pretoria. Note: Large passenger-cargo type steamships, which could carry more cargo on one voyage than the entire Hamburg-American Line sailing fleet of the 1850's in a whole year.
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