SS Drottningholm
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SS Drottningholm was a Swedish transatlantic ocean liner, belonging to the Swedish American Line that operated from 1920 to 1948.
She was built in 1905 by A. Stephens & Sons in Scotland for the Allan Line of Canada and commissioned as SS Virginian.
Career
She served for the Allan Line from 1905 until 1920. In 1912, as Virginian, she was one of several ships in wireless radio communication with RMS Titanic, giving iceberg warnings, and at one point false wireless messages had Virginian towing Titanic to Halifax, Nova Scotia. During World War I she served as a troop transport ship for Canada.
In 1920 she was sold to the Swedish American Line and renamed SS Drottningholm, serving Sweden until 1948.
From 1948-1955 she sailed for the Home Lines of Italy, first as the SS Brasil and from 1951 as the SS Homeland.
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