SS Polonia (1910)

The Danish East Asiatic Company ordered the ship from Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd of Glasgow. She was built as yard number 482, launched on 7 July 1910 and completed that September. She was launched as Kursk, named after the city of Kursk in western Russia. Kursk was long, her beam was and her draught was . Her tonnages were and . The ship had twin four-cylinder quadruple-expansion engines driving twin screws. Each engine had a stroke and cylinders of , , and bore. Between them, the engines developed 1,020 NHP. The engines were fed by six 215 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a total heating surface of . Her boilers were heated by 18 corrugated furnaces with a grate surface of . ==Service==

The East Asiatic Company registered Kursk in Liepāja in the Russian Empire. After the October Revolution, the UK Shipping Controller chartered her and placed her under Cunard Line management. In 1920, she was returned to the East Asiatic Company. Gdynia America Line rapidly modernised, taking delivery of the new motor ships in 1935 and in 1936 for its premier transatlantic service. The company sold Polonia to Francesco Pittaluga in Savona, Italy for scrap on 5 March 1939, a few months before two more new motor ships, and , joined the company fleet. ==References==