SS Falaba

Sinking of the SS Falaba
History
United Kingdom
Name	Falaba
Namesake	Falaba
Owner	Elder, Dempster Shipping Ltd
Operator	Sir Alfred Jones
Port of registry	Liverpool
Builder	A Stephen & Sons, Linthouse
Yard number	414
Launched	22 August 1906
Completed	1906
Identification	UK official number 124000 code letters HJGF by 1913: call sign MZK
Fate	sunk by torpedo, 1915
General characteristics
Type	cargo liner
Tonnage	4,806 GRT, 3,011 NRT
Length	300.5 ft (91.6 m)
Beam	47.4 ft (14.4 m)
Depth	22.9 ft (7.0 m)
Installed power	424 NHP
Propulsion	1 × triple-expansion engine 1 × screw
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h)
Capacity	passengers: 138 × 1st class; 72 × 2nd class
Crew	96
Notes	sister ship: Albertville

SS Falaba was a British cargo liner. She was built in Scotland in 1906 and sunk by a U-boat in the North Atlantic in 1915. The sinking killed more than 100 people, provoking outrage in both the United Kingdom and United States.

She was the first of two Elder Dempster Lines ships that were named after the town of Falaba in Sierra Leone. The second was a motor ship that was built in 1962, sold and renamed in 1978, and scrapped in 1984.^[1][2]