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USS Kursk
American Troopship 
USS Kursk SS Kursk
built by Barclay Curle & Company Glasgow, Yard No 482, Engines by Barclay Curle & Company Glasgow. Propulsion: steam - twin screw - 15 knots.
Launched: Thursday, 07/07/1910, Built: 1910, Ship Type: Steamship
Ship's Role: Transatlantic liner, Tonnage: 7858 grt., Length: 450 feet
Breadth: 56.2 feet
Owner History:
Russian East Asiatic SS Co., Libau
1918 The Shipping Controller, UK (Cunard)
1920 The East Asiatic Company, Copenhagen
1930 Polish Transatlantic Shipping Co (Gdynia-America Line), Gdynia
1935 Gdynia-America Shipping Lines
Status: Arrived for Scrapping - 05/03/1939
Remarks: Maiden voyage Libau
New York 2nd November 1910. Transferred to Glasgow New York service 1914. Managed by Cunard from 1917 until 1921 when sold to Baltic America Line and renamed Polonia making her first Glasgow - New York - Danzig - Libau voyage 23rd January 1921. Went to Polish Gydnia America Line in 1930 on Gydnia to New York runs until 1933 when she transferred to Constanza
Haifa services, remaining on this route until scrapping at Savona in 1939
John Doran
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