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SS Trent

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Name
  
Trent

Fate
  
Scrapped 1922

Installed power
  
steam engine

Length
  
125 m

Builder
  
Robert Napier and Sons

Tonnage
  
5,525 GRT

Launched
  
18 September 1899


SS Trent was a steamship built at Glasgow in 1899 and used as a mailship in the North Atlantic before being requisitioned as a depot ship by the British Admiralty in 1914. It rescued the crew of the airship America in their failed first attempt to cross the Atlantic by air in 1910.

References

SS Trent Wikipedia


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