File:1911 SS Suwannee.jpg

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English: Thee SS City of Rome sank by U-boat S-51 (SS-162) on 25 September 1925.

Bult as the SS Suwannee, for the Merchants & Miners Line. Here entering the port of Jacksonville in 1912. She was renamed the city of Rome. She was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, New Jersey in 1911 for the Merchants & Miners Line, she was sold to the Savannah Line in September 1917. She was sold back to Merchants & Miners in 1928 and renamed SS Somerset, and was scrapped at Baltimore in 1938.

For Merchants & Miners she ran between Philadelphia, Baltimore, Savannah, and Jacksonville, Florida. For the Savannah Line she ran between Boston and Savannah. 3648 tons enrolled length 309 ft., breadth 46 ft. 170 passengers. She only carried cargo after July 1936.
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Original publication: Merchants & Miners Line

Immediate source: http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08162.htm
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Merchants & Miners Line

(Life time: 1912)

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