page_title: SS Kronprinz Wilhelm
hierarchical_section_title: SS Kronprinz Wilhelm
caption_attribution_description: English: SS Kronprinz Wilhelm. Colored postcard, featuring an image of the liner at sea. Postcard was published by Alb. Rosenthal, Bremen, Germany. Collection of Paul F. Wangerin, 1975. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph Deutsch: Die Kronprinz Wilhelm, einer der repräsentativsten und schnellsten Dampfer des Norddeutschen Lloyd (NDL) vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg am Leuchtturm Roter Sand in der Deutschen Bucht vor Bremen. Ein damals beliebtes Photo- und Malmotiv, das es mit der Kronprinz und anderen Schiffen in etlichen Varianten gab. Die hier abgebildete kolorierte Postkarte der Fa. Alb. Rosenthal, Bremen, ist oben und am linken Rand beschnitten. Am Leuchtturm hängt bei vollständigen Karten an einem Mast die kaiserliche Fahne und über dem Schiff ist links die Flagge des NDL abgebildet sowie mittig in Rot der Schiffsname zu lesen. Image ID: Photo # NH 97667-KN (Color)
context_page_description: SS Kronprinz Wilhelm was a German passenger liner built for the Norddeutscher Lloyd, a former shipping company now part of Hapag-Lloyd, by the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin, Germany, in 1901. She took her name from Crown Prince Wilhelm, son of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, and was a sister ship of SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse.
  She had a varied career, starting off as a world-record-holding passenger liner, then becoming an auxiliary warship from 1914–1915 for the Imperial German Navy, sailing as a commerce raider for a year, and then interned in the United States when she ran out of supplies. When the U.S. entered World War I, she was seized and served as a United States Navy troop transport until she was decommissioned and turned over to the United States Shipping Board, where she remained in service until she was scrapped in 1923.
context_section_description: SS Kronprinz Wilhelm was a German passenger liner built for the Norddeutscher Lloyd, a former shipping company now part of Hapag-Lloyd, by the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland), in 1901. She took her name from Crown Prince Wilhelm, son of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, and was a sister ship of SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse.
  She had a varied career, starting off as a world-record-holding passenger liner, then becoming an auxiliary warship from 1914–1915 for the Imperial German Navy, sailing as a commerce raider for a year, and then interned in the United States when she ran out of supplies. When the U.S. entered World War I, she was seized and served as a United States Navy troop transport until she was decommissioned and turned over to the United States Shipping Board, where she remained in service until she was scrapped in 1923.
caption: Postcard of SS Kronprinz Wilhelm, 1901
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