Karina (SS)

Name: Karina (SS)
Address: IE

Steel Steamship in Ireland, dating from 1917

The Karina was a 4,222-ton steamship built by Alexander Stephen & Sons, Linthouse, Glasgow, in 1905 and was employed on the Glasgow and Liverpool service to West Africa. It was one of two ‘Karina’ class steamships owned by the African Steam Navigation Company (Elder Dempster & Co. Ltd.), the other being the SS Mendi. Both vessels were lost during the war: the Karina with the loss of 11 lives; the Mendi with the loss of 646 crew and passengers, mostly personnel from the South African Native Labou

Type:: Steel Steamship
Period:: 1917
Coordinates:: 51.82°N, 7.05°W

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