Harland and Wolff - Shipbuilding and Engineering Works

One funnel, six masts, twin screw and a speed of 14 knots. There was passenger accommodation for 202-1st, 153-2nd, 788-3rd and 2,300-4th class. She was launched as the Scotian for Wilson's & Furness-Leyland Line, the order was cancelled and she was uncompleted for many months until purchased by Hamburg America Line of Hamburg in 1906 and renamed President Lincoln.

She commenced her maiden voyage on 1st June 1907 when she sailed from Hamburg for Boulogne, Plymouth and New York. On 25th July 1914 she started her last Hamburg - Southampton - New York crossing arriving 5th August 1914. she was subsequently interned at Hoboken, New York until 1917, when she was seized by US authorities. She was then used as a troopship until, having delivered 3,000 troops to Cherbourg, she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-90, on the return crossing to New York on 31st May 1918 with the loss of 26 lives.

(Scotian had gone through even more names after she, too, was bought by Hapag. She was named Chicago, Berlin, Boston and Abraham Lincoln before entering service as President Lincoln.)

[North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.1,p.413][Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.4, Hamburg America, Adler and Carr Lines]