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SS Albania
United Kingdom
Name	SS Albania
Owner	Cunard Line
Operator	Cunard Line
Port of registry	Liverpool
Route	Liverpool to New York (After 1922 Liverpool - Montreal Quebec)
Builder	Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd. Greenock
Yard number	479
Laid down	1914
Launched	17 April 1920
Completed	December 1920
Maiden voyage	18 January 1921
In service	1921
Out of service	1925
Fate	Sold 1930
History
Italy
Name	SS California
Owner	Liberia Triestina
In service	1930
Out of service	1941
Fate	Sunk 11 August 1941
General characteristics
Type	Cargo liner
Tonnage	12768
Length	539 ft
Beam	64 ft
Depth	47 ft
Decks	2
Installed power	Four steam turbines double reduction geared
Propulsion	Twin screw
Speed	15 knots
Capacity	80 Cabin class passengers

SS Albania was a cargo liner laid down in 1914 by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd. Greenock, Scotland for the Cunard Line. Owing to the First World War, she wasn't completed until 1920. Designed to maximize cargo capacity, passenger accommodations were limited to the shelter and "tween" decks. Originally intended for the Liverpool New York run, she was transferred in April of 1922 to the Canadian route. Ultimately the vessel proved a disappointment for Cunard, being too small to operate effectively as a passenger liner and too big for a freighter,^[1] and was laid up in 1925 until purchased in 1930 by the Italian company Liberia Triestina who renamed her SS California.^[2]^[3] She was converted for use as a hospital ship in 1935.^{[citation needed]}

Loss

On 11 August 1941, California was torpedoed and sunk off Syracuse by a Fairey Swordfish aircraft of 830 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, operating out of Malta.^[4]

References

^ Wills, Elspeth (2010). The Fleet1840-2010. London: The Open Agency. p. 67. ISBN 9780954245184.
^ Cairis, Nicholas T. (1979). Passenger Liners of the World Since 1893. Bonanza Books. pp. 10. ISBN 0517-28875-3.
^ "SS Albania II". Norway Heritage Emigrant Ship Database. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
^ "Naval Events, August 1941, Part 1 of 2, Friday 1st - Thursday 14th". Naval History. Retrieved 15 December 2011.

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in August 1941

Shipwrecks

3 Aug: U-401
8 Aug: Karl Marx
6 Aug: HMT Agate, Gallois
10 Aug: Tuman, U-144
11 Aug: California
12 Aug: HMS Picotee
13 Aug: Kephallina
14 Aug: USS PC-457
18 Aug: HMS P32, HMS P33
19 Aug: Aguila, HNoMS Bath
22 Aug: HMS Tonbridge
23 Aug: HMS Zinnia
24 Aug: VT-532
25 Aug: U-452
27 Aug: Adele
28 Aug: Yakov Sverdlov, Azard, Skory, Kalinin
29 Aug: U-570

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July 1941

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