Builder : Swan, Hunter &t Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend-on-Tyne, England.
Completed : February 1913.
Gross tonnage: 10137.
Dimensions: 480ft. x 61 ft. Depth 36ft.
Engines: Two four-cylinder, quadruple-expansion engines and two low-pressure turbines.
Screws: Quadruple
Watertight bulkheads: Nine.
Decks: Four.
Normal speed: 17 knots.
Passenger accommodation: 250 first, 100 second and 75 third class.
She was christened Reina Victoria Eugenia.
Renamed Argentina in 1931.
Engaged in the Spain-Havana—Vera Cruz service and Spain—New York run.
Reallocated to the Spain—South American trade in 1931.
Sunk by an air attack at Barcelona,Spain, between January 16 and 23, 1939, during the Spanish Civil War.
Refloated and sold for scrap in 1945.
Sister ship: Uruguay.
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