SS Reina Victoria-Eugenia
1914 postcard of Reina Victoria-Eugenia | |
| History | |
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| Spain | |
| Name |
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| Namesake |
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| Owner | Compañía Transatlántica Española |
| Operator | Cía Transatlántica Española |
| Port of registry | Barcelona |
| Route | Barcelona – Buenos Aires |
| Builder | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Low Walker |
| Yard number | 884 |
| Launched | 26 September 1912 |
| Completed | February 1913 |
| Maiden voyage | 12 March 1913 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Sunk by air attack, raised, scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | ocean liner |
| Tonnage | 10,137 GRT, 5,564 NRT |
| Length | 480.0 ft (146.3 m) |
| Beam | 61.3 ft (18.7 m) |
| Draught | 25.0 ft (7.6 m) |
| Depth | 32.7 ft (10.0 m) |
| Decks | 3 |
| Installed power | 1,484 NHP |
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| Speed |
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| Capacity |
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| Crew | 250 |
| Sensors & processing systems |
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| Armament | passive provision for four naval guns |
| Notes | |
SS Reina Victoria-Eugenia was a steam ocean liner and mail ship launched in 1912 in England and operated by the Compañía Transatlántica Española (CTE). She and her sister ship Infanta Isabel de Borbon represented a significant modernisation of CTE's fleet of ageing and obsolescent ships.
After the Second Spanish Republic was declared in 1931 Reina Victoria-Eugenia was renamed Argentina. She was laid up from 1932.
In 1939 a Nationalist air attack on the Port of Barcelona sank Argentina at her moorings. Her wreck had been raised by 1940 and was scrapped in 1945.