SS Minneapolis was a British ocean liner of in operation between 1900 and 1918. She was torpedoed by SMU UC-35 195 nmi east of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea on 23 March 1916 with the loss of 12 of her crew, while she was travelling from Marseille, France to Alexandria, Egypt in ballast.[1]
Construction
Minneapolis was constructed in 1899 for the Atlantic Transport Line at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, United Kingdom. She was launched on 18 November 1899 and completed in April 1900. The ship was 183.1 m long, with a beam of 20 m and a depth of 12 m. The ship was assessed at. She had two quadruple expansion engines driving two screw propellers and the engine was rated at 1,127 nhp. The ship could reach a maximum speed of 16 kn and had four masts and one funnel. Minneapolis's maiden voyage on 10 May 1900, saw her sailing from London to New York.[2]