SS Carolina
SS Carolina | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Carolina |
| Owner | Plant Investment Co. |
| Builder | The Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |
| Cost | US$500,000 |
| Yard number | 15 |
| Christened | 30 January 1896 as La Grande Duchesse |
| Acquired | 9 April 1899 |
| Maiden voyage | 7 September 1907 |
| In service | 1896 |
| Out of service | 1918 |
| Fate | Sunk by gunfire on 2 June 1918. |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 5017 |
| Length | 380 ft (120 m) |
| Beam | 47 ft (14 m) |
| Draft | 33 ft (10 m) |
SS Carolina was a 380-foot-long (120 m) passenger liner; it was one of six vessels sunk on a single day during World War I by the German submarine U-151 on "Black Sunday". The wreck was rediscovered in 1995 by wreck divers.