S.S. Sardinian (Allan Line)
Painted by John Everett in 1918Shipping troops overseas has usually required the services of large civilian vessels, especially ocean liners.
The SS Sardinian, a steamship pictured here in a First World War dazzle camouflage scheme, first carried Canadians to war in South Africa in 1899. Large, fast, and well-equipped passenger liners, pressed into wartime service, sped the deployment of troops abroad and were difficult targets for slower-moving enemy submarines.
Beaverbrook Collection of War Art
CWM 19710261-0141