SS Columbus (1924)

SS Columbus was a German ocean liner laid down and launched as Hindenburg before the start of World War I.

The vessel was originally to be named Hindenburg. However, her then-sister, originally named Columbus, was handed over to British government and then sold to the White Star Line after the war as part of reparations in 1920 and renamed RMS Homeric by her new owners.

The Allies allowed the Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL), her owners, to keep the remaining ship. NDL decided to give her the name of her departed sister, now the British SS Homeric. Construction, which had been held up by the war, resumed at Schichau Shipyards in Danzig, Germany.