SS Morro Castle (1900)

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The SS Morro Castle of the Ward Line was built in 1900 and active during the Mexican Revolution.[1][2]

References

  1. "Fleet List". Ward Line. http://www.wardline.com/page/page/4557567.htm. Retrieved 2010-03-07. "Laid down for Plant Line in 1899; launched for Ward Line as Morro Castle in 1900; in service from 1900 to 1924. After a long career as the line's record-breaking speed queen, she was laid up in Brooklyn in 1924 pending sale. Bought by an Italian scrap yard a year later, she made her last voyage across the Atlantic under the Italian flag. Her scrapping was completed in 1926." 
  2. "Ward Liner Morro Castle Chartered and Will Sail at Once from Philadelphia.". New York Times. April 22, 1914. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C03E0D8163AE633A25751C2A9629C946596D6CF. Retrieved 2010-03-07. "Announcement was made at the Navy Department to-day that the Ward Line steamship Morro Castle had been chartered by the department and ordered from New York to Philadelphia, where she would embark a regiment of marines made up from the contingents at navy yards and naval stations along the Atlantic Coast."