SS Polonia (1910)
Polonia was a passenger steamship that was built in Scotland in 1910, originally named Kursk and was registered in the Russian Empire. She was an Allied troopship in the First World War, when she was briefly operated by Cunard Line. After the war she returned to civilian passenger service, in Latvian service until 1930 and then for Poland. Building. 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 lb/in 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, where it had a subsidiary. 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. By then Poland and the Baltic states had seceded from Russia and the city of Liepāja was in newly independent Latvia. The East Asiatic Company's Liepāja-registered ships all had Russian names, so the company renamed them with the names of the newly independent states. "Kursk" was renamed "Polonia", the Latin name for Poland. In 1930 the East Asiatic Company sold its Latvian subsidiary to Polish owners who renamed the company Polskiego Transatlantyckiego  Towarzystwa Okrętowego ("Polish Transatlantic Shipping Company Limited" or PTTO). The ships were operated by Gdynia America Line, which was restructured in 1934 to absorb PTTO. 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.