Transylvania
1925
(Albatros AL-43)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 16,923 tons
- Dimensions: 578 x 70 x 29 ft.
- Machinery: Steam turbines, twin screws = 16 knots
- Passengers: 1,423 (279 first class, 344 second class, 800 third class)
- Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Glasgow, Scotland, 1925
- Service: Built for the Anchor Line's Glasgow-New York service.
Requisitioned as armed merchant cruiser HMS Transylvania Aug 1939.
Torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U56, 10 Aug 1940; 48 lost.
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