| Name: | POLYNESIA |
| Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 05/11/1881 |
| Completed: | 1881 |
| Builder: | C Mitchell & Co |
| Yard: | Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 430 |
| Dimensions: | 2196grt, 1426nrt, 298.7 x 36.0 x 23.3ft |
| Engines: | C2cyl (35 & 68 x 45ins), 258nhp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | n/a |
| History: | |
| 1881 | E Carr, Hamburg |
| 1888 | Hamburg-Amerika Packetfahrt AG, Hamburg |
| 1903 | Glafcke & Hennings, Hamburg |
| 1904 | Fratelli De Gregori, Genoa |
| 1921 | OR Cichero, Genoa |
| 28/08/1921 | Sank |
| Comments: | 28/08/1921: Sunk by a mine 3 miles off Melita di Porto Salvo, Straits of Messina |
| On a voyage from Greece to Palermo with a cargo of pyrites |
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