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SS Ancona
Summary
SS Ancona was an ocean liner, built in 1908 by Workman, Clark and Company of Belfast for the Societa di Navigazione a Vapore Italia of Genoa. She was an emigrant ship on a route between Italy and the United States. sank her on 8 November 1915 off the coast of Tunisia.
In 1907 and 1908 shipyards in Scotland and Ireland built three sister ships for the Italia Società di Navigazione a Vapore's route between Genoa and Philadelphia via Naples and New York. The first was , which D. and W. Henderson and Company in Glasgow launched on 15 February 1907 and completed in 1908.
Workman, Clark and Company in Belfast built the second and third sisters, Ancona and . Ancona was launched on 19 December 1907, with Miss Violet Ardill of Greystones as her sponsor on behalf of the Duke of Andría. She was completed in February 1908. Verona was launched on 31 March 1908 and completed that May. After successful sea trials, Ancona was commissioned in February 1908.
As built, she had accommodation for about 60 passengers in first class state rooms in her promenade deck-house, and about 2,500 passengers in third class. To feed so many passengers, the space on her orlop deck was insulated and supplied with an acidic refrigeration system. In 1909 accommodation for first class passengers was expanded to 120. In September 1910 she was refitted to carry 60 first and 120 second class passengers.
Anconas registered length was , her beam was and her depth was . As built, her tonnages were and . After refitting, she was reassessed as and . She had a steel hull, and two triple-expansion steam engines rated at a combined 1,221 nhp. They had cylinders of , , and diameter with a stroke that drove two screw propellers, and gave her a speed of up to .
On 28 February 1908, after successful completion of her speed trials on the Skelmorlie measured mile, Ancona, while coming up the Lough on her return trip from the Clyde to Liverpool, hit in the stern and sank Harbour Commissioners' twin screw tug Musgrave.
Upon delivery Ancona sailed to Italy.
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