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SS ''Brazil'' was a US turbo-electric ocean liner.〔 She was completed in 1928 as SS ''Virginia'', and refitted and renamed as SS ''Brazil'' in 1938.〔 From 1942 to 1946 she was the War Shipping Administration operated troopship ''Brazil''. She was laid up in 1958 and scrapped in 1964. ==Building== ''Virginia'' was the second of three sister ships built by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Newport News, Virginia for the American Line Steamship Corporation, which at the time was part of J. P. Morgan's International Mercantile Marine Co. She joined () in the fleet of American Lines' Panama Pacific Lines subsidiary.〔 A third sister, SS ''Pennsylvania'', was . ''Virginia'' was a steamship, with oil-fired furnaces heating her boilers to power two General Electric steam turbo generators with a combined rating of 2,833 NHP〔 supplying current for her electric propulsion motors.〔 ''Virginia'' was equipped with submarine signalling apparatus and wireless direction finding〔 equipment, and from about 1934 she was equipped with a gyrocompass.〔 As built, ''Virginia'' had accommodeation for 184 first class and 365 tourist class passengers.〔 52 of her first class cabins were state rooms.〔 Some of her first class cabins had ''en suite'' bathrooms.〔 With Panama Pacific Lines, ''Virginia''s two funnels would have been red with a blue top, with a white band dividing the blue from the red. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Brazil (1928)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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