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[1] and completed that September. She was launched as Kursk, named after the city of Kursk in western Russia.[2]
Kursk was 450.0 ft long, her beam was 56.2 ft and her draught was 34 ft. Her tonnages were and .[3]