Alban 1

		Booth Line's S.S. "Alban" 1

	Built:	Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Dundee
	Dimensions:	375.2 x 51.7 x 29.1 feet
	Tonnage:	Gross: 5223 Net: 3262
	Propulsion:	Single screw, triple expansion steam engine, 12 kts by builder
	Type:	Passenger/Cargo Liner
	Launched:	11/3/1914 as Alban
	Delivered:	12/11/1914 and sailed on maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York and Manaus
	Missed:	17/6/1917 by a torpedo from U-82 while bound from New York to Liverpool, when northwest of Ireland
	Missed:	11/5/1918 by a torpedo from U-70 while on ballast passage from Liverpool to Newport in the Irish Sea
	Attacked:	24/9/1918 by gunfire from U-152 but escaped by return of fire
	Sold:	5/1935 to shipbreakers at Genoa
	Resold:	1/1936 to Ugo Mussa, Genoa, for the Abyssinian war trade and renamed *Zena*
	Damaged:	10/10/1941 by Allied air attack of Kerkena Island, Tunisia
	Torpedoed:	11/10/1941 and sunk off Lampadusa

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	S.S. Alban 1 - Photograph © John Clarkson

	One of Booth Lines graceful river steamers specially built for the Amazon trade and was the last Booth Line vessel to be attacked in WW I

	*Alban & Stephen class* - Fraser Darrah Collection

	The Booth Line ran passenger services from the United Kingdom right up to Manaus - 1,000 miles up the Amazon. Founded in the 1860s, they took over the Red Cross Line in 1901 and the Iquitos Steam Ship Company in 1911. In 1946 the Booth Line was sold to the Vestey Group of companies and in 1975 all the group's ships were pooled under Blue Star Ship Management Ltd and the Booth Line ceased to exist as a separate entity.
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