page_title: SMY Hohenzollern
section_title: SMY Hohenzollern II
hierarchical_section_title: SMY Hohenzollern / SMY Hohenzollern II
caption_attribution_description: More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz; Print no. "6734".; Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J-foreign section, Detroit, Mich.&#160;: Detroit Publishing Company, 1905.; Forms part of: Views of architecture and other sites in Italy in the Photochrom print collection.
context_page_description: SMY Hohenzollern was the name of several yachts used by the German Emperors between 1878 and 1918, named after their House of Hohenzollern.
context_section_description: Hohenzollern II was launched on 27 June 1892, the build completed the same year by AG Vulcan Stettin. She was 120 metres (390 ft) long, had a beam of 14 metres (46 ft) and drew 5.6 metres (18 ft), with 9,588 indicated horsepower (7,150 kW).
  She was used as the Imperial Yacht and aviso from 1893 to July 1914. From 1894 to 1914, with the exception of 1906, Emperor Wilhelm II used her on his annual prolonged Nordlandfahrt trips to Norway. In total he spent over four years on board.
  In June 1914 Hohenzollern II attended the Kiel regatta and on 25 June the last state banquet was held on board to entertain officers of the British fleet whose ships had been invited to attend.
  
  At the end of July 1914 Hohenzollern II was put out of service in Kiel, the last captain being Kapitän zur See Johannes V. Karpf. The ship became property of the Weimar Republic in 1918. Struck on 27 February 1920, she was scrapped in 1923 in Wilhelmshaven.
caption: Hohenzollern II in Venice, Italy. Photochrom print, 1890s
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