Name: | CAMPANIA |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 18/02/1901 |
Completed: | 03/1901 |
Builder: | John Readhead & Sons |
Yard: | West Yard, South Shields |
Yard Number: | 352 |
Dimensions: | 3551grt, 2267nrt, 341.2 x 46.7 x 26.0ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (24, 40 & 65 x 45ins), 295nhp |
Engines by: | John Readhead & Sons, South Shields |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | |
History: | |
03/1901 | Campania SS Co Ltd (L Kossovich & D Tripcovich), Trieste |
1917 | Kerr Navigation Corporation, New York; renamed KEROWLEE |
1921 | American Ship & Commerce Navigation Corporation, New York |
1921 | Renamed MOUNT STERLING |
1921 | Oceana Sea Navigation Co Inc, Budapest; renamed BALATON |
1927 | NG Livanos, Chios; renamed NICOLAOS A |
1931 | Renamed EVI |
1933 | Broken up |
Comments: | 01/12/1917: Taken control by the United States Army at Le Havre |
17/10/1918: Commissioned with the US Navy as USS KEROWLEE | |
Armed with 1 x 4.0ins gun | |
01/06/1919: Transferred to the US Food Administration to take food to Danzig | |
25/07/1919: Returned to owners | |
1933: Broken up in Italy in Q3. |
Above photo as KEROWLEE copyright of the US Navy