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Name: CAMPANIA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 18/02/1901
Completed: 03/1901
Builder: John Readhead & Sons
Yard: West Yard, South Shields
Yard Number: 352
Dimensions: 3551grt, 2267nrt, 341.2 x 46.7 x 26.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 40 & 65 x 45ins), 295nhp
Engines by: John Readhead & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number:
History:
03/1901 Campania SS Co Ltd (L Kossovich & D Tripcovich), Trieste
1917 Kerr Navigation Corporation, New York; renamed KEROWLEE
1921 American Ship & Commerce Navigation Corporation, New York
1921 Renamed MOUNT STERLING
1921 Oceana Sea Navigation Co Inc, Budapest; renamed BALATON
1927 NG Livanos, Chios; renamed NICOLAOS A
1931 Renamed EVI
1933 Broken up
Comments: 01/12/1917: Taken control by the United States Army at Le Havre
17/10/1918: Commissioned with the US Navy as USS KEROWLEE
Armed with 1 x 4.0ins gun
01/06/1919: Transferred to the US Food Administration to take food to Danzig
25/07/1919: Returned to owners
1933: Broken up in Italy in Q3.


Above photo as KEROWLEE copyright of the US Navy