SS Armenian

SS Armenian was a British cargo liner built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for Frederick Leyland and Company, launched in 1895 as yard number 292 and completed that September. She measured 8,765 gross register tons and had a single screw driven by a triple-expansion engine that gave her about 13 knots, and when new she was noted among merchant ships for her exceptionally large tonnage. Leyland owned her throughout her career, although White Star Line managed her from 1903. She carried cattle from Boston, and later New York, to Liverpool, prisoners of war in the Second Boer War, and horses and mules in the First World War. A German U-boat sank her in the North Atlantic in 1915 while she carried mules for the Entente powers, killing 29 people, among them 23 American citizens who had been hired to look after the animals, an event that drew considerable comment in the United States.