No.50 Vaderland launched in 1900

12,018 Red Star Line by John Brown, Clydebank

Southland 1915 Red Star Line

Torpedoed by U 70 off Tory Island, Ireland

Renamed during the Great War as the Dutch word Vaderland was considered too similar to the German Vaterland.

Image from Rich Turnwald

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