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
- ↑ "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."
- ↑ "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."
