SS Tuscania

Last updated December 24, 2021

Several ships have borne the name SS Tuscania, all in the Cunard-subsidiary Anchor Line. These include:

SS Tuscania (1914), a 14,348-ton liner torpedoed in 1918 while transporting US soldiers to Europe.
SS Tuscania (1922), a 16,991-ton liner sold to the Greek Line in 1939 and renamed the Nea Hellas.

This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.

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SS Tuscania was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, and launched on 4 October 1921 for the Anchor Line.

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