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Built by Alexander Stephen & Sons, Limited in Glasglow Scotland in 1923, California was 579 feet long and 69 feet wide, displacing 16,792 gross tons. She was powered by steam turbines geared to twin screws for a service speed of 16 knots. Passenger capacity was 1,760 (251 First Class, 465 Second Class and 1,044 Third Class)

California was built for the Anchor Line (British Flag) and sailed the Glasgow - New York route. She was requisitioned as a troopship at the beginning of World War II. Like her sister ship, Transylvania, her war service would be the end of her, though California did last much longer. But on July 11, 1943 her luck ran out. She was sunk by German aircraft off the coast of Portugal with the loss of 46 crew members.