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S.S. America
Ship Name: America
Years in service: 1917-1957
Funnels: 2
Masts: 4
Aliases: Ex-Amerika (1917)
Shipping line: La Veloce
Ship description: Built by Harland & Wolff, Ltd., Belfast, Ireland. Tonnage: 21,145. Dimensions: 668' x 74' (687' o.l.). Twin-screw, 18 knots. Quadruple expansion engines. Four masts and two funnels.
History: First sailing as an American passenger liner, New York-Plymouth-Cherbourg-Bremen, June 22, 1921, for United States Mail Steamship Company. Laid up as a reserved transport in 1932. Commissioned as the troopship Edmund B. Alexander in 1941. Reconditioned in 1942 and a large single funnel replaced the original two. Scrapped at Baltimore in 1957. Ex-Amerika (1917).
| Owner of original | ancestry.com |
| File name | IMUSA1858_005-0119.jpg |
| File Size | 344.56k |
| Dimensions | 2567 x 1575 |
| Linked to | Passenger Manifest of the S.S. America; Anton F DOBRY (Immigration); Mary Ann KROUTIL (Immigration) |
| Albums | Ship Manifests |
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