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SS Augusta Victoria

***Augusta Victoria***, later ***Auguste Victoria***, placed in service in 1889 and named for Empress Augusta Victoria, wife of German Emperor Wilhelm II, was the name ship of the Augusta Victoria series and the first of a new generation of luxury Hamburg America Line ocean liners. She was the first European liner with twin propellers and when first placed in service, the fastest liner in the Atlantic trade. In 1897, the ship was rebuilt and lengthened and in 1904 she was sold to the Imperial Russian Navy, which renamed her ***Kuban***.
SS Valbanera

***Valbanera*** was a steamship operated by the Pinillos Line of Spain from 1905 until 1919, when she sank in a hurricane with the loss of all 488 crew and passengers aboard. *Valbanera* was a 400-foot-long (120 m) steamer capable of carrying close to 1,200 passengers. She sailed a regular route between Spain and Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Gulf Coast of the United States. The ship sank with the loss of all 488 people on board during the Florida Keys Hurricane in September 1919.
SS Tavolara (1910)

he Italian passenger liner **SS *Tavolara*** was built in May 1910. It was renamed in 1910 as *Terra Nova* and in 1928 as *Limbara*. The ship was rebuilt during World War II and on 1 February 1944 commissioned as the German hospital ship *Innsbruck*. It was used for 84 patients. The ship was sunk during an air raid on 9–10 June 1944 at the pier in Trieste.
SS Principessa Jolanda

The **SS** ***Principessa Jolanda*** was an Italian transatlantic ocean liner built by Cantiere Navale di Riva Trigoso for the Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI) shipping company. Named after Princess Iolanda Margherita di Savoia, the eldest daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III, the ship was intended for the NGI's South American service. At 9,210 tons and 141 m (463 ft) in length, she was the largest passenger ship built in Italy up to that time. Constructed at a cost of 6 million lire to designs by Erasmo Piaggio, the *Principessa Jolanda* has also been called the first true Italian luxury liner. She was among the first transatlantic vessels fitted with Marconi Wireless telegraphy, electric lighting throughout and telephones in each cabin.
RMS Sylvania

**RMS *Sylvania*** was an ocean liner built in 1957 by John Brown & Co (Clydebank), in Glasgow, for the United Kingdom-based shipping company Cunard Line. She was the last Cunard Line vessel built specifically for transatlantic crossings. The ship was later heavily rebuilt as a cruise ship, and sailed under the names **SS *Fairwind***, **SS *Sitmar Fairwind***, **SS *Dawn Princess*** and **SS *Albatros*** before being scrapped in 2004. She was renamed **SS *Genoa*** for her last voyage.
SS Kroonland

**SS *Kroonland*** was an ocean liner for International Mercantile Marine (IMM) from her launch in 1902 until she was scrapped in 1927. *Kroonland* was the sister ship of *Finland* and a near sister ship of *Vaderland* and *Zeeland* of the same company. *Kroonland* sailed for IMM's Red Star Line for 15 years, and also sailed for IMM's American Line and Panama Pacific Line. During World War I, the ship served as United States Army transport **USAT *Kroonland*** through April 1918, and as the Navy auxiliary **USS *Kroonland* (ID-1541)** from April 1918 to October 1919.
SS Vaderland (1900)

**SS *Vaderland*** was an ocean liner launched in July 1900 for the Red Star Line service between Antwerp and New York. During her passenger career, the ship initially sailed under British registry, but was re-registered in Antwerp in 1903. *Vaderland* was a sister ship to *Zeeland* and a near sister ship to *Kroonland* and *Finland*.

After the beginning of the First World War, *Vaderland* was re-registered in Liverpool and converted to a troopship, ferrying troops of the Canadian Expeditionary Force from Halifax to Liverpool. While under the operation of White Star–Dominion in 1915, she was renamed *Southland* to avoid the German-sounding *Vaderland*.
SS Patricia (1899)

**USS *Patricia*** was a transatlantic liner that was launched in Germany in 1899 and spent most of her career with Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). She was the last to be built of a class of four HAPAG sister ships that came from shipyards in the United Kingdom and Germany between 1896 and 1899.

In 1919, HAPAG surrendered *Patricia* to the United States as part of Germany's World War I reparations to the Allies, and she was used to repatriate American Expeditionary Forces troops from Europe.

Later, in 1919, she was transferred from the US government to the UK Shipping Controller. She was scrapped in England in 1921.
RMS Strathmore

**RMS *Strathmore*** was an ocean liner and Royal Mail Ship of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O), the third of five sister ships built for P&O in the "Strath" class. Launched in 1935, she served on the company's route from London to India until 1940, when she was requisitioned for war service as a troop ship, and redesignated as **SS** ***Strathmore***, until being returned to her owners in 1948. After a long re-fit, she resumed service with P&O from 1949 until 1963, when she was sold to Latsis Lines and renamed ***Marianna Latsi***, then ***Henrietta Latsi***, before being laid up in 1967 and finally scrapped in 1969.
SS Shinyō Maru (1911)

**SS *Shinyō Maru*** (春洋丸) was built in Nagasaki in 1911 by Mitsubishi Dockyard & Engine Works. Her length was 558 ft (170 m) and breadth 61.9 ft (18.9 m) Her tonnage was 13,426 GRT, with a displacement of 21,650 ('22 000') tons. Her triple screws gave her a speed of 21 knots. The liner had accommodation for 275 first class, 75 second class, and 800 steerage passengers. *Shinyo Maru* was powered by thirteen Scotch boilers providing steam for three sets of Parsons turbines for 17,000 horsepower.
SS Dongola

The **SS *Dongola***, launched 14 September 1905, was a steam-powered passenger liner of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, at various times used as a Royal Navy troop ship (HMT *Dongola*) and hospital ship (HMHS *Dongola*).

Except during the First World War, the ship's main use was as a passenger liner on the routes from England through the Suez Canal to India and the Far East, and she was fast enough to carry mail.

P & O sold the ship in June 1926 to be broken up for scrap.
Ships Wiki

# **Welcome to the Ships Wiki!**

This is just a wiki dedicated to passenger ships/liners and starships from different franchises. Each page will have some links regarding the history/background of each ship and will have the layout and interior (if available) listed.

The ships listed here are passenger liners, cargo/passenger liners. Cruise ships, paddle steamers, and coastal passenger vessels are now allowed. Do not add warships or starships
SS Rotterdam III

**SS *Dwinsk*** was a British-flagged ocean liner sunk by SM *U-151* in World War I. The ship was previously the third ***Rotterdam*** for the Holland America Line, ***C.F. Tietgen*** for the Scandinavian America Line, and, as *Dwinsk*, for the Russian American Line. The ship was put under Cunard Line management in 1917, and sailed under the British flag until sunk on 18 June 1918.
SS Guglielmo Marconi

**SS *Guglielmo Marconi*** was an Italian ocean liner launched on 24 September 1961 for Lloyd Triestino's Genoa—Sydney service. Her sister ship was SS *Galileo Galilei*. *Guglielmo Marconi* left Genoa on her maiden voyage on November 18th 1963. In 1976, Guglielmo Marconi was transferred to the Naples-Brazil-River Plate service of Italia Line.
SS Île de France

**SS *Île de France*** was a French ocean liner that was built in Saint-Nazaire for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (or CGT, also known as the "French Line"). The ship was named after the region around Paris known as "L'Ile de France", launched in 1926 and commenced her maiden voyage on June 22, 1927. It was the first major ocean liner built after World War I, and was the first liner ever to be decorated almost entirely with modern designs associated with the Art Deco style. She was neither the largest ship nor the fastest, but was considered the most beautifully decorated ship built by CGT, becoming the favored ship of the pre-World War II era, carrying young, wealthy and fashionable Americans to Europe and back.

All of the ship's luxurious fittings were removed for its conversion into a prison ship during World War II. After the war, *Île de France* resumed transatlantic operations. In 1956, she played a key role in rescuing passengers from the SS *Andrea Doria* after the latter ship's fatal collision with the MS *Stockholm* off Nantucket. Her last public appearance came just before she was scrapped in 1959, "starring" in the movie *The Last Voyage* as a doomed ocean liner, and actually being partially sunk, while scenes were being filmed with actors playing their parts in the flooded ship. She was subsequently refloated and taken to Japan to be scrapped. The movie was released in 1960.
SS Noordam (1902)

**SS *Noordam*** (1902) was a 12,531 ton passenger liner of the Holland America Line, sailing mostly between Rotterdam and New York. She was built by Harland and Wolff. In April 1912 she alerted *RMS Titanic* to ice early into its ill-fated maiden voyage. She operated during part of World War I, but hit mines on two occasions and was laid up until the war ended. In 1923 she was chartered by Swedish American Line and operated as **SS *Kungsholm*** until 1926 when she reverted to Holland America as *Noordam*. She was scrapped in 1927.
SS Great Northern (1914)

***Great Northern*** was a passenger ship built at Philadelphia by William Cramp & Sons under supervision of the Great Northern Pacific Steam Ship Company for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company, itself a joint venture of the Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railway. *Great Northern*, along with sister ship *Northern Pacific*, were built to provide a passenger and freight link by sea between the northern transcontinental rail lines via the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway terminal at Astoria, Oregon and San Francisco beginning in spring of 1915.

The ship was acquired for military service in September 1917 and served as **USS *Great Northern*** (AG-9), **USAT *Great Northern*** and **USS *Columbia*** before returning to commercial Pacific Coast service as ***H. F. Alexander***. In 1942 the ship was acquired by the War Shipping Administration and again became an Army transport, **USAT *George S. Simonds***. After layup in the reserve fleet 5 March 1946 the ship was sold to Boston Metals Company on 25 February 1948 for scrapping.
MS Piłsudski

**MS *Piłsudski*** (later renamed **ORP *Piłsudski***) was a medium-size ocean liner of the Polish Merchant Marine, named for Marshal Józef Piłsudski, a national hero of Poland. She was built in Italy by the CRDA yard at Monfalcone, yard number 1126, for Polskiego Transatlantyckiego Towarzystwa Okrętowego ("Polish Transatlantic Shipping Company Limited" or PTTO), which in 1934 became Gdynia – Ameryka Linie Zeglugowe (Gdynia – America Line), with part of the payment being shipments of coal from Poland. Launched in December 1934, her tonnage was 14,294 tons gross, with a length of 162 metres (531 ft) and beam of 22 metres (71 ft). She was propelled by two diesel engines driving a pair of propellers giving a speed of 18 knots (33 km/h).
SS Fürst Bismarck (1890)

The first **SS *Fürst Bismarck*** was an ocean liner built in 1890 by AG Vulcan for the Hamburg America Line. A steamship of 8,430 gross register tons, it was assigned to transatlantic crossings between Hamburg Germany and New York City, United States. *Fürst Bismarck* and the sister ships were part of an express fleet that usually made the trip in five to six days.
SS König Albert

The **SS *König Albert*** was a German Barbarossa class ocean liner owned by the Norddeutscher Lloyd Line. Interned in Italy at the outbreak of World War I, she was seized by the Italian Government in 1915 and converted to a hospital ship. Sold into merchant service in 1920, she was used as a transport for the Italian Navy, before being scrapped in 1926.
SS Potsdam (1935)

***Empire Fowey*** was a 19,121 GRT ocean liner that was built in 1935 as ***Potsdam*** by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg for the Hamburg America Line. She was sold before completion to Norddeutscher Lloyd. While owned by Norddeutscher Lloyd she was one of three sister ships operating the service between Bremen and the Far East. Her sister ships were SS *Scharnhorst* and SS *Gneisenau*.
SS Vaterland (1913)

**SS *Leviathan***, originally built as ***Vaterland*** (meaning "Fatherland" in German), was an ocean liner which regularly crossed the North Atlantic from 1914 to 1934. The second of three sister ships built for Germany's Hamburg America Line for its transatlantic passenger service, she sailed as *Vaterland* for less than a year before her early career was halted by the start of World War I. In 1917, she was seized by the US government and renamed *Leviathan*. She would become known by this name for the majority of her career, both as a troopship during World War I and later as the flagship of the United States Lines.
SS Kaiserin Auguste Victoria

**RMS *Empress of Scotland***, originally **SS *Kaiserin Auguste Victoria***, was an ocean liner built in 1905–1906 by Vulcan AG shipyard in Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland) for the Hamburg America Line. The ship regularly sailed between Hamburg and New York City until the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914. At the end of hostilities, re-flagged as USS *Kaiserin Auguste Victoria*, she transported American troops from Europe to the United States. For a brief time Cunard sailed the re-flagged ship between Liverpool and New York.

The ship was refitted for Canadian Pacific Steamships (CP) and in 1921, she was renamed *Empress of Scotland*—the first of two CP ships to bear that name.

The vessel ended service in 1930 and was sold for scrap. During the demolition of the ship, the vessel caught fire, broke in two and sank. The hulls were raised and scrapped.
SS Queen of Bermuda

**SS *Queen of Bermuda*** was a British turbo-electric ocean liner that belonged to Furness, Withy & Co Ltd. Its Furness Bermuda Line subsidiary operated her between New York and Bermuda before and after the Second World War. During the war she served as first an armed merchant cruiser and then as a troop ship.
RMS Aurania (1916)

**RMS *Aurania*** was an ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line. She was built in 1916 at Wallsend and measured 13,936 gross tons.

The *Aurania* was the last of three ships planned to serve between Canada and Europe. Her sister ships were the *Andania* and *Alaunia*. Although ordered in December 1913, because of the First World War, she was not completed until 1916.
HMHS Rewa

**HMHS *Rewa*** (His Majesty's Hospital ship) was a steamship originally built for the British-India Steam Navigation Company for their mail and passenger service but requisitioned in August 1914 and fitted out for use as a British hospital ship during the First World War. On 4 January 1918, she was hit and sunk by a torpedo from the German U-boat *U-55*.
SS United States

**SS *United States*** is a retired ocean liner built in 1950–51 for the United States Lines at a cost of US$79.4 million. The ship is the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the United States and the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic in either direction, retaining the Blue Riband for the highest average speed since her maiden voyage in 1952. She was designed by American naval architect William Francis Gibbs and could be converted into a troopship if required by the Navy in time of war. *United States* maintained an uninterrupted schedule of transatlantic passenger service until 1969 and was never used as a troopship.
SS Corinthic (1902)

**SS *Corinthic*** was a British passenger ship, built in 1902 by Harland & Wolff and launched for the British shipping companies White Star Line and Shaw, Savill & Albion Line. She was the second of the *Athenic*-class ocean liners built for passenger and cargo service between Britain and New Zealand. Her sister ships were SS *Athenic* (1902) and SS *Ionic* (1903). In 1931 *Corinthic* was decommissioned and scrapped.
SS Kristianiafjord

**SS *Kristianiafjord*** was the first ship in the fleet of the Norwegian America Line, built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead, UK. The name refers to the fjord leading into the Norwegian capital Oslo, at the time called Kristiania. Launched from its shipyard on 23 November 1912, it was put into service in 1913, the same year as its sister ship, SS *Bergensfjord*. It embarked on its maiden voyage on 4 June that year, sailing from Christiania (Oslo) through Christiansand, Stavanger and Bergen to New York, with the captain S. C. Hiortdahl. *Kristianiafjord* had a tonnage of 10,699, and was fitted with wireless and electric light. She could take 1,200 passengers – 100 first class, 250 second class and 850 third class.

*Kristianiafjord* remained on the same route for the next four years, but on 15 June 1917 the ship wrecked near Cape Race, Newfoundland due to navigational error. There were 1144 persons on board at the time, but no lives were lost. About two weeks later, on 28 June, the wreck was destroyed and lost in a storm.
SS President Coolidge

**SS *President Coolidge*** was an American luxury ocean liner that was completed in 1931. She was operated by Dollar Steamship Lines until 1938, and then by American President Lines until 1941. She served as a troopship from December 1941 until October 1942, when she was sunk by mines in Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides at the Espiritu Santo Naval Base, part of current-day Vanuatu. *President Coolidge* had a sister ship, SS *President Hoover*, completed in 1930 and lost when she ran aground in a typhoon in 1937.
SS Príncipe de Asturias

***Príncipe de Asturias*** was a steam ocean liner, built in Scotland for the Spanish Naviera Pinillos. She was launched in 1914 and wrecked in 1916 with the loss of at least 445 lives. She was the sister ship of Pinillos' 8,170 GRT *Infanta Isabel*, which was launched in 1912.

*Príncipe de Asturias* was the last ocean liner to be built in the UK for a Spanish shipping line. Thereafter the Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval (SECN) developed its shipyards to meet the Spanish merchant fleet's need for larger and more modern ships.

The ship was named after the Prince of Asturias, the title of the heir apparent to the Spanish Crown. She is one of several ships to have been called *Príncipe de Asturias*. Others include a 44-gun frigate sunk in 1721, the former *Acacia*-class sloop HMS *Iris*, which was converted into a merchant ship in 1920 and sank in 1930, and the Spanish aircraft carrier *Príncipe de Asturias*, which was launched in 1982 and sold for scrap in 2015.
SS La Bretagne

**SS *La Bretagne*** was an ocean liner that sailed for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT) from her launch in 1886 to 1912, sailing primarily in transatlantic service on the North Atlantic. Sold to Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique in 1912, she sailed for that company under her original name and, later, as **SS *Alesia*** on France–South America routes. The liner was sold for scrapping in the Netherlands in December 1923, but was lost while being towed.
MV Monte Cervantes

**MV *Monte Cervantes*** was a 500 ft (150 m) German passenger liner that cruised the South American route from Buenos Aires to Puerto Madryn (Chubut) to Punta Arenas to Ushuaia and return to Buenos Aires. The ship sailed under German registration and belonged to the South American Hamburg Company. After only two years of service she sank at the beginning of 1930 near Tierra del Fuego. The ship became known as "The *Titanic* of the South."

On 22 January 1930, *Monte Cervantes* departed Ushuaia and within 30 minutes struck some submerged rocks in the Pan de Indio. The ship could not be dislodged and began to sink. The lifeboats were lowered and 1,200 passengers and 350 crew were removed from the ship. *Monte Cervantes* sank 24 hours later, and while all the passengers and crew were able to leave the ship before she sank, her captain was killed. The remainder of the crew and all of the passengers were saved.
SS Imperator

**SS *Imperator*** was a German ocean liner built for the Hamburg America Line (Hamburg Amerikanische Paketfahrt Aktien Gesellschaft, or HAPAG), launched in 1912. At the time of her completion in June 1913, she was the largest passenger ship in the world by gross tonnage, surpassing the new White Star liner *Olympic.*

*Imperator* was the first of a trio of successively larger Hamburg American liners that included SS *Vaterland* (later the United States Liner *Leviathan*) and SS *Bismarck* (purchased and renamed *Majestic* for the White Star Line transatlantic passenger service).

*Imperator* served for 14 months on HAPAGs transatlantic route, until the outbreak of World War I, after which she remained in port in Hamburg. After the war, she was briefly commissioned into the United States Navy as **USS *Imperator* (ID-4080)** and employed as a transport, returning American troops from Europe. Following her service with the U.S. Navy, *Imperator* was handed over to Britain's Cunard Line as part of war reparations, due to the loss of the *RMS Lusitania,* where she sailed as the flagship **RMS *Berengaria*** for the last twenty years of her career.
SS Fürst Bismarck (1905)

The second ***Fürst Bismarck*** was an ocean liner of 8,332 gross tons built in Glasgow by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company for the Hamburg America Line. Launched on 22 March 1905, the vessel made her maiden voyage between Hamburg and New York, (with stops at Dover and Boulogne) on 19 August of the same year.
MS Augustus (1950)

**MS *Augustus*** was a 27,090 GRT, luxury ocean liner built in 1950 for Italian Line. She was the sister ship to MS *Giulio Cesare* that was launched in the same year. These two ships were built to the same design, with similar specifications. After the *Augustus* was sold to Hong Kong, she sailed under five names. The ship was later sold to Manila Hotel and renamed MS *Philippines*, functioning as a static hotel. As reported by both Maritimematters, and maritime, the MS Philippines was sold for scrap in September 2011. As of December 2011, she was beached in Alang for scrapping.
SS Santa Lucia

**USS *Leedstown* (AP-73)**, built as the Grace Line passenger and cargo ocean liner **SS *Santa Lucia***, served as a United States Navy amphibious assault ship in World War II. The ship had first been turned over to the War Shipping Administration (WSA) and operated by Grace Line as the WSA agent from February to August 1942 in the Pacific. In August the ship, at New York, was turned over to the Navy under sub-bareboat charter from WSA. She was sunk 9 November 1942 off the Algerian coast by a German submarine after German bombers caused damage the day before.

*Santa Lucia* was the third of four sister ships sometimes dubbed "The Four Sisters" or "Big Four" ordered in 1930 by Grace Line for its Panama Mail Service from the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Kearny, New Jersey. All four ships were launched in 1932. The other ships in order of launch were *Santa Rosa*, *Santa Paula* and, after *Santa Lucia*, *Santa Elena*.
SS Wandilla

SS Wandilla was a steamship built in 1912 for the Adelaide Steamship Company. The ship operated on the Fremantle to Sydney run until 1915, when she was acquired for military service and redesignated HMAT Wandilla. Initially used as a troop transport, the vessel was converted to a hospital ship in 1916. Wandilla was returned to her owners at the end of the war, then was sold to the Bermuda & West Indies SS Company and renamed Fort St. George in 1921. She was sold in 1935 to Lloyd Triestino and renamed Cesarea before being renamed Arno in 1938. At the start of World War II, the ship was acquired by the Regia Marina for use as a hospital ship. She was sunk by British aircraft on 10 September 1942.
SS California (1927)

**SS *California*** was the World's first major ocean liner built with turbo-electric transmission. When launched in 1927 she was also the largest merchant ship yet built in the US, although she was a modest size compared with the biggest European liners of her era.

In 1938 *California* was renamed **SS *Uruguay***. From 1942 to 1946 she was operated through agents by the War Shipping Administration as the troopship *Uruguay*. She was returned to civilian service as SS *Uruguay* in 1948, laid up in 1954 and scrapped in 1964.
SS Irma (1905)

**SS *Irma*** was a 1,322-ton steamship built by the British shipyard Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. Ltd. in Middlesbrough in the north-east of England. She was delivered to the Norwegian passenger ship company Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab of Bergen in 1905. *Irma* sailed for the company until she was attacked and sunk by two MTBs belonging to the Royal Norwegian Navy on 13 February 1944.
SS Monroe

**SS *Monroe*** was an Old Dominion Steamship Company steamship launched 18 October 1902 and completed 3 April 1903 by Newport News Shipbuilding of Norfolk, Virginia for operation in the company's Old Dominion Line's "Main Line Division" for overnight service between New York and Norfolk and could make 16 knots (30 km/h). The ship had accommodations for 150 first class, 78 steerage and 53 deck passengers. That service was between New York pier 26, North River, and Norfolk connecting with the line's "Virginia Division" steamers, including Old Dominion's "Night Line Steamers" *Berkley* and *Brandon* serving Richmond with overnight service to Norfolk, other steamer lines and rail lines serving the Chesapeake Bay area. The *Monroe* was struck at about 2 a.m. on 30 January 1914 by the southbound steamer *Nantucket* and sank with loss of forty-one lives
SS Admiral von Tirpitz

**RMS *Empress of Australia*** was an ocean liner built in 1913–1919 by Vulcan AG shipyard in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) for the Hamburg America Line. She was refitted for Canadian Pacific Steamships; and the ship – the third of three CP vessels to be named *Empress of China* – was renamed yet again in 1922 as *Empress of Australia.*

In trans-Pacific service, the ship garnered fame for her part in rescue efforts at Tokyo following the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923.

In trans-Atlantic service, she earned distinction in 1927 by bringing the Prince of Wales from England to the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Canada. She was honoured to serve as Royal Yacht during the Royal tour of Canada in 1939.
SS Ussukuma

The ***Ussukuma*** was a German passenger ship named after a location in the central highlands of German East Africa (now Tanzania). On 6 December 1939, only a few months into the Second World War, she was scuttled off the coast of Argentina. In January 2008 her wreck was identified by the Argentine Navy in 70 metres of water, 62 miles off Necochea.
SS Bergensfjord

**SS *Bergensfjord*** was a Norwegian ocean liner that sailed for the Norwegian America Line to the United States. During the Second World War she was requisitioned by the British Ministry of War Transport and used as a troop ship. After the war she continued sailing as a Trans-Atlantic passenger liner, first for South American owners, then for an Israeli company.
SS Rotterdam V

The fifth **SS *Rotterdam***, also known as "The Grande Dame", is a former ocean liner and cruise ship, and has been a hotel ship in Rotterdam, Netherlands since 2010. She was launched by Queen Juliana of the Netherlands in a gala ceremony on 13 September 1958, and was completed the following summer.

The *Rotterdam* was the last great Dutch "ship of state", employing the finest artisans from the Netherlands in her construction and fitting out process. Her career spanned forty-one years. She sailed from 1959 until her final retirement in September 2000.
SS Berlin (1894)

**SS *Berlin*** was a steel ship, which was owned by the Great Eastern Railway and built for use on their ferry service from Harwich and the Hook of Holland, which the company had initiated in 1893.

The Great Eastern Railway ordered three steamships to operate the service. The ships were named *Amsterdam*, *Berlin*, and *Vienna* to publicise some of the rail connections from the Hook of Holland. *Berlin* was built in 1894 by Earles Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Hull. She had berths for 218 first- and 120 second-class passengers.
SS Servian

**USS *Republic* (AP-33)** was a troop transport that served with the US Navy during World War II. In World War I she served with the Navy as **USS *President Grant* (ID-3014)** before being turned over to the Army and named *Republic*. The ship was renamed the *President Buchanan* in 1921 before reverting to *Republic* in 1924.

Originally christened as the SS *Servian*, she was built in 1903 by Harland and Wolff, Ltd. of Belfast for the Wilson & Furness-Leyland Line, a subsidiary of International Mercantile Marine Co. spearheaded by J.P. Morgan. After plans for a North Atlantic service collapsed, she spent four years at anchor in the Musgrave Channel in Belfast.

After being purchased by the Hamburg-American Packet Steamship Company (Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft or HAPAG) in 1907, it was renamed the SS *President Grant*, the third ship named for Ulysses S. Grant. In August 1914, after seven years of trans-Atlantic passenger service, she took refuge at New York City when the outbreak of World War I made the high seas unsafe for German merchant ships. She was interned at Hoboken, New Jersey and remained inactive for nearly three years until the United States entered the war in April 1917. The ship was seized when the United States officially declared war against Germany.
SS Zeppelin

**USS *Zeppelin*** was a passenger liner launched in 1914 as **SS *Zeppelin*** by Bremer Vulkan, Bremen-Vegesack, Germany, for Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL). Due to the First World War she never entered NDL service. She had a career after the war first under White Star Line control, then briefly as the troop ship USS *Zeppelin*, next as the Orient SN Co liner **SS *Ormuz*** and finally back with NDL as **SS *Dresden***.
SS Maheno

**SS *Maheno*** was an ocean liner belonging to the Union Company of New Zealand that operated in the Tasman Sea, crossing between New Zealand and Australia, from 1905 until 1935.

It was also used as a ship by the New Zealand Naval Forces during World War I; as *His Majesty's New Zealand Hospital Ship No. 1.* It was washed ashore on Fraser Island by a cyclone in 1935 where the disintegrating wreck remains as a popular tourist attraction.
SS Karnak

**SS *Karnak*** was a French Passenger ship turned Troop transport that the German submarine SM *U-32* torpedoed on 27 November 1916 in the Mediterranean Sea 70 nautical miles (130 km) south south east of Valletta, Malta. *Karnak* was carrying mostly troops from Marseille and Malta to Saloniki, Greece.
SS Duilio

**SS *Duilio*** was the first Italian super ocean liner and one of the largest Italian merchant ships until 1925. She measured 24,281 gross register tons and was the sister of the SS *Giulio Cesare*, which was launched in 1921. She was constructed for the Italian shipping company “Navigazione Generale Italiana” based in Genoa and constructed by Ansaldo Shipyard owned by Sestri Ponente. She was sunk on 10 July 1944.
SS Batavier II (1897)

**SS *Batavier II*** was a steam packet for the Batavier Line that sailed between Rotterdam and London for most of her career. The ship was built in 1897 by the Gourlay Brothers of Dundee. The Dutch ship could carry a limited amount of freight and up to 321 passengers. She was rebuilt in 1909 which increased her length by over 5 metres (16 ft).

During World War I, the Batavier Line attempted to maintain service, but in September 1916, *Batavier II* was seized as a prize by German submarine *UB-6* and sailed into Zeebrugge and retained. Ten months later, *Batavier II* was shelled by British submarine *E55* and sank near Texel.
SS Kursk

***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.
MS Kungsholm (1952)

**MS *Kungsholm*** was a combined ocean liner / cruise ship built in 1953 by the De Schelde shipyard in Vlissingen, the Netherlands for the Swedish American Line. Between 1965 and 1981 she sailed for the North German Lloyd and their successor Hapag-Lloyd as **MS *Europa***. From 1981 until 1984 she sailed for Costa Cruises as **MS *Columbus C.*** She sank in the port of Cadiz, Spain after ramming a breakwater on 29 July 1984. The vessel was refloated later that year, but sent to a Barcelona shipbreaker in 1985 for scrapping.
SS Stavangerfjord

**SS *Stavangerfjord*** was a Norwegian passenger ocean liner that sailed for the Norwegian America Line between Norway and the United States and sailed periodically to Canada. She was the third ship of the Norwegian American Line, and similar to the company's first two ships. SS *Stavangerfjord* was built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead, England. The ship was launched on 21 May 1917, and was put into service in April 1918. The ship sailed to New York and due to World War I, it did not arrive in Bergen until 21 September 1918. In 1924 her fuel was converted from coal to oil combustion.

The ship was seized by Nazi German occupiers in Oslo in 1940 and was used as a depot ship throughout World War II. After the war, the shipping company resumed the ship in transatlantic scheduled traffic between New York and several ports in Norway. The "Old Lady" faithfully crossed the Atlantic until 1964 when she was sold for scrapping.
RMS Baltic

**RMS *Baltic***was an ocean liner of the White Star Line that sailed between 1904 and 1933. At 23,876 gross tons, she was the world's largest ship until 1905. She was the third of a quartet of ships, all measuring over 20,000 gross tons, dubbed The Big Four(the other three being RMS *Celtic*, *Cedric*, and *Adriatic*).

## Early Service

She was launched on 21 November 1903 by Harland and Wolff at Belfast and sailed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to New York on 29 June 1904 with Captain Edward Smith in command.

On 23 January 1909 (commanded by J. B. Ranson), she rescued survivors of the collision in fog between the White Star Line's RMS *Republic* and the SS *Florida* off the north eastern coast of the United States, after which *Republic* sank.

On 30 June 1910 *Baltic* was in collision with the German steamer *Standard*. *Baltic* was holed above the waterline while *Standard*'s bow was badly damaged.[1] On 14 April 1912, *Baltic* sent an ice warning message to the RMS *Titanic*:
SS Friedrich der Grosse

**SS *Friedrich der Grosse*** (or ***Friedrich der Große***) was a Norddeutscher Lloyd liner built in 1896 which sailed Atlantic routes from Germany and sometimes Italy to the United States and on the post run to Australia. At the outset of World War I the ship was interned by the U.S. and, when that country entered the conflict in 1917, was seized and converted to a troop transport, becoming **USS *Huron* (ID-1408)**.

Originally commissioned as **USS *Fredrick Der Grosse***, the ship was renamed *Huron* – after Lake Huron, the center lake of the Great Lakes – while undergoing repairs and conversion at a U.S. Navy yard. The ship carried almost 21,000 men to France during the hostilities, and returned over 22,000 healthy and wounded men after the Armistice.

After decommissioning by the U.S. Navy, the ship was turned over to the United States Shipping Board and was later transferred to the United States Mail Steamship Company, for whom she sailed in the Atlantic as **SS *Huron***. In May 1922 the ship was allocated to the Los Angeles Steamship Co. and renamed **SS *City of Honolulu***. The ship caught fire on 12 October 1922 during her maiden voyage, and sank with no loss of life.
SS Maritzburg

**SS *Caserta*** was an Italian ocean liner named for the city of Caserta in the Campania region of Italy. She was previously known as **SS *Maritzburg*** and **SS *Mendoza***, and was later renamed **SS *Venezuela***. Launched in 1904 as *Maritzburg* for the Bucknall Line, the ship was sold to Lloyd Italiano in 1905 and renamed *Mendoza*. Renamed *Caserta* in 1914, she was placed under the Navigazione Generale Italiana banner in 1918. During World War I she was employed as a troopship carrying United States troops to France as part of the United States Navy Cruiser and Transport Force. In 1923, she was renamed *Venezuela* and transferred to La Veloce for South American service, but reverted to NGI control in 1924. She was scrapped in 1928.
SS Kaiser Friedrich

**SS *Burdigala*** was an ocean liner that sailed the Atlantic Ocean from 1898 until World War I. The ship was built as the ***Kaiser Friedrich*** in 1898 for Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL), a German shipping line. Designed to break the speed record for a transatlantic liner and thereby win the Blue Riband, the *Kaiser Friedrich* never achieved the necessary speeds. After a short career with NDL and an equally short period of service with NDL's main German competitor, the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft (Hamburg America Line, or HAPAG), the ship was mothballed for a decade. After being sold to the French shipping line Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique, it re-entered service as *SS Burdigala*. In 1916, while en route from Thessaloniki to Toulon, the liner struck a mine laid by the German U-boat *U-73* in the Aegean Sea and sank near Kea, Greece.
SS Statendam (1914)

**SS *Justicia*** was a British troopship sunk during the First World War. She was laid down as **SS *Statendam***, a 32,234 gross-ton ocean liner built for the Holland America Line by Harland and Wolff in Belfast and launched on July 9, 1914. Shortly after, World War I broke out, and work slowed down. Eventually, before the ship was completed, negotiations between the British government and the company resulted in its acquisition by the former for use in the war effort.

It was at first planned to have it chartered by Cunard Line, which explained the renaming of the ship to *Justicia* to correspond to the nomenclature of the company. However, as the company did not have the necessary crews, the ship was eventually handed over to White Star Line, which was responsible for operating it as a troop transport. Her mission began in April 1917. After having escaped a first submarine attack in January 1918, she was torpedoed on July 19, 1918 off Skerryvore, and sank the next morning.
SS Reina Victoria-Eugenia

**SS *Reina Victoria-Eugenia*** was a steam ocean liner and mail ship launched in 1912 in England and operated by the Compañía Transatlántica Española (CTE). She and her sister ship *Infanta Isabel de Borbon* represented a significant modernisation of CTE's fleet of ageing and obsolescent ships.

After the Second Spanish Republic was declared in 1931 *Reina Victoria-Eugenia* was renamed ***Argentina***. She was laid up from 1932.

In 1939 a Nationalist air attack on the Port of Barcelona sank *Argentina* at her moorings. Her wreck had been raised by 1940 and was scrapped in 1945.
MV Kungsholm (1965)

**MV *Kungsholm*** was built in 1966 by the John Brown & Company shipyard in Clydebank, Scotland as a combined ocean liner / cruise ship for the Swedish American Line. She was later rebuilt as a full-time cruise ship sailing under the names MV ***Sea Princess***, MV ***Victoria***, MV ***Oceanic II***. and MV ***Mona Lisa***. In September 2010 she was retired from service as she did not fulfill requirements to SOLAS 2010, and becoming the floating hotel **Veronica**, before being scrapped in 2016.
Chichibu Maru

The ***Chichibu Maru*** (秩父丸) was a Japanese passenger ship which, renamed ***Kamakura Maru***, was sunk during World War II, killing 2,035 soldiers and civilians on board.

The *Chichibu Maru* was built for the Nippon Yusen shipping company by the Yokohama Dock Company. She was launched on 8 May 1929 and completed in 1930. She had a beam of 22.6 meters, a length of 178 meters and a tonnage of 17,498. Cruising speed was 19 knots, with a maximum of 21 knots. The ship could carry 817 passengers. She differed from her half-sisters, the *Asama Maru* and the *Tatsuta Maru*, in her propulsion system, and in having one (rather than two) funnels.

Before the war, the ship carried passengers between Yokohamaand San Francisco. Prince Takamatsu and Princess Takamatsualso traveled on this ship. Following the adoption of Kunrei-shiki romanization the ship was renamed *Kamakura Maru* in 1939.
RMS Amazon (1906)

**RMS *Amazon*** was a transatlantic Royal Mail Ship that the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company operated on scheduled services between Southampton and South American ports including Buenos Aires. She was the second of the RMSP's fleet of "A" series liners, and was launched in 1906.

In the First World War a U-boat sank *Amazon* in 1918 in the Atlantic Ocean 30 nautical miles (56 km) north by west off Malin Head, Ireland.
RMS Ivernia

**RMS *Ivernia*** was a *Saxonia* class ocean liner, built in 1955 by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland for Cunard Line, for their transatlantic passenger service between the UK and Canada. In 1963 she was rebuilt as a cruise ship and renamed **RMS *Franconia***, after the famous pre-war liner RMS *Franconia*. She continued to sail for Cunard until being withdrawn from service and laid up in 1971. In 1973 she was sold to the Soviet Union's Far Eastern Shipping Company and, renamed **SS *Fedor Shalyapin***, cruised around Australia and the far East. In 1980 she was transferred to the Black Sea Shipping Company fleet, and for a time returned to cruising in the Mediterranean and around Europe. In 1989 she was transferred again, to the Odessa Cruise Company, and continued her career as a cruise ship until 1994. She was then laid up at Illichivsk, a Black Sea port 40 km southwest of Odessa, until 2004 when, as the ***Salona***, she sailed to Alang, India, where she was scrapped.
RMS Mooltan

**RMS *Mooltan*** was an ocean liner and Royal Mail Ship of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). She was ordered in 1918 and completed in 1923. She served in the Second World War first as the armed merchant cruiser **HMS *Mooltan* (F75)** and then as a troop ship. She was retired from P&O service in 1953 and scrapped in 1954.

*Mooltan* was unusual in combining both quadruple-expansion steam engines and turbo-electric transmission. When completed in 1923 she had only her quadruple-expansion engines, but in 1929 turbo generators and electric propulsion motors were added alongside them to increase her speed.
SS Deutschland (1923)

**SS *Deutschland*** was a 21,046 gross registered ton (GRT) German HAPAG ocean liner which was sunk in a British air attack on May 3, 1945 when it was in the process of being converted as a hospital ship. All people on board the *Deutschland* survived the attack, though two accompanying vessels sank with great loss of life.
SS Conte Verde

***Conte Verde*** was an Italian ocean liner active in the early 20th century.

The name was chosen in honor of Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy, the so-called “Green Count.” She was launched in 1923 at the shipyard of William Beardmore and Company in Dalmuir, Scotland. Her yard number was 612. The ship was a transatlantic liner of 18,761 GRT, ordered by the Italian shipping company Lloyd Sabaudo Line in Genoa. The first-class accommodations had a capacity of 450 passengers, second class was 200 passengers and third class (emigrants rooms) was 1,780 passengers. In addition, 400 crew members were on board. The ship was composed of 10 decks. The interiors of public rooms were designed in luxurious Italian classical styles. Her sister ship was the SS *Conte Rosso*.
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SS Rochambeau

**SS *Rochambeau*** was a French transatlantic ocean liner of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT). She was launched in 1911 and scrapped in 1934. She was the first French ship to be powered by a combination of reciprocating steam engines and steam turbines.

She was named after the Comte de Rochambeau, a French aristocrat and marshal who led an army in the American Revolutionary War.
Terukuni Maru

**Terukuni Maru** (照国丸) was a Japanese ocean liner owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK). The ship was launched in 1929 by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. at Nagasaki, on the southern island of Kyūshū, Japan, entering service in 1930. She sank off the English coast in 1939 after striking a mine. Her sinking has been described as Japan's only World War II casualty outside East Asia before the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
RMS Franconia (1910)

The **RMS *Franconia*** was an ocean liner operated by the Cunard Line. She was launched on 23 July 1910 at the Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Wallsend shipyard. *Franconia* was intended for the line's Boston service, being the largest ship of the time to enter Boston harbor, with winter service in the New York-Mediterranean cruising service.

Her maiden voyage in February 1911, was between Liverpool and Boston, USA. She was nicknamed the "bathroom ship" as she had more bathrooms and showers on board than the *Mauretania*. She was unusual, as she did not have staterooms on the upper deck, instead she had a library, gymnasium and a lounge and smoking room.

After several years service primarily in the North Atlantic, she was taken into service as a troop transport in early 1915. On 4 October 1916, while heading for Salonika, she was torpedoed and sunk by the German U-boat *UB-47* 195 miles east of Malta. She was not carrying any troops but out of her 314 crew members, 12 died. The others were saved by the hospital ship *Dover Castle*.
SS America (1939)

**SS *America*** was an ocean liner and cruise ship built in the United States in 1940, for the United States Lines and designed by the noted American naval architect William Francis Gibbs. She carried many names in the 54 years between her construction and her 1994 wreck:

SS *America* (carrying this name three different times during her career); troop transport USS *West Point*; and SS *Australis*, *Italis*, *Noga*, *Alferdoss*, and *American Star*. She served most notably in passenger service as *America* and the Greek-flagged *Australis*.

She was wrecked as the *American Star* at Playa de Garcey on Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands on 18 January 1994. The wreck has deteriorated and collapsed into the sea. As of 2021, the wreck is no longer visible at all on the surface of the water, it has become an artificial reef.
SS Orduña

**SS *Orduña*** or ***Orduna*** was an ocean liner built in 1913–14 by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. After two voyages she was chartered to Cunard Line. In 1921 she went to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, then being resold to the PSNCo in 1926. Her sister ships were *Orbita* and *Orca*.

She provided transatlantic passenger transport, measured approximately 15,500 gross tons, and was 550.3 ft x 67.3 ft.