SS Verona (1908)

History

Italy
Name	Verona
Namesake	Verona
Owner	1908: Italia Soc di Nav a Vap 1913: Nav Gen Italiana
Port of registry	Genoa
Route	1908: Genoa – Naples – New York – Philadelphia 1913: Genoa – Naples – Palermo – New York
Builder	Workman, Clark & Co, Belfast
Yard number	271
Launched	31 March 1908
Completed	May 1908
Maiden voyage	19 June 1908
Identification	Italian official number 388 code letters: SRCT wireless telegraphy call sign: 1913: MOV 1914: ITV
Fate	Sunk, 11 May 1918
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner
Tonnage	8,261 GRT, 5,068 NRT
Length	482.3 ft (147.0 m)
Beam	58.3 ft (17.8 m)
Depth	26.2 ft (8.0 m)
Installed power	1,221 NHP
Propulsion	2 × triple-expansion engines 2 × screws
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h)
Capacity	1908: 60 first class, 2,500 third class
Troops	3,000
Notes	sister ships: Taormina, Ancona

SS Verona was a transatlantic ocean liner that was built in Ireland in 1908 for an Italian shipping line. She was a troop ship in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12 and in the First World War in 1917–18. In 1918 a German submarine sank her in the Mediterranean with great loss of life.