Call sign NSWM. Launched by Alexander Stephen&Sons Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland with yard number 454 on 20 May 1913, delivered on 8 October 1913, sold to the Lloyd Triestino S.A. di Navigazione, Trieste, Italy and renamed Gradisca on 29 August 1935, used as troop transport towards Ethiopia in 1935-1936, hospital ship since 1940, seized by the German forces on 11 September 1943, brought to Préveza, Greece where she served as hospital ship, stopped and taken in the Aegean Sea by the British destroyer HMS Kimberley on 28 October 1944, released while she was a hospital ship on 20 January 1945, decommissioned in German service at Venice on 20 March 1945, after the German capitulation handed over to Italy and returned to her owner in 1945. Fitted out with 2-4 cylinder quadruple expansion steam engines with 11.000 ihp allowing a speed of 16 knots. Gross tonnage 13.868 tons, net tonnage 8.121 tons, deadweight 8.260 tons, grain capacity 338.000 cubic feet, bale capacity 357.000 cubic feet and as dimensions 541.1 x 65.8 x 35.3 (depth) feet. Accommodation for 1.444 passengers. Of the N.V. Koninklijke Hollandsche Lloyds, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
