SS Königin Luise — historic photograph

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SS Königin Luise

1896 AG Vulcan 11,103 GRT 523.1 ft Scrapped
11,103GRT
Tonnage
523.1ft
Length
60.1ft
Beam
15knots
Speed
1passengers
Passengers
231crew
Crew

SS Königin Luise ("Queen Louise") was a Barbarossa-class built in 1896 by Vulcan Shipbuilding Corp. of Stettin, Germany, for the North German Lloyd line of Bremen. She served on the company's Australian, Far East, and North Atlantic routes for nearly two decades.

During World War I, Königin Luise was one of only two ships of her class to avoid being interned in neutral ports, spending the war in German ports. After the war, Königin Luise was allocated as war reparations to the United Kingdom, sold to the Orient Steam Navigation Company in 1921 and renamed Omar. She was sold again in 1924 to the Byron SS Co of London and operated on the Piraeus – New York service until scrapped in 1935.

Text: Wikipedia — SS Königin Luise (1896), CC BY-SA 4.0

Tonnage
11,103 GRT
Length
523.1 ft p/p 552 ft o/a
Beam
60.1 ft
Speed
15 knots
Passengers
225 1st class
Crew
231
Builder
AG Vulcan
Yard number
232
Launched
17 October 1896
Owner
Norddeutscher Lloyd; UK Shipping Controller
Propulsion
two quadruple-expansion steam engines, twin screws
Fate
Scrapped in Italy 1935
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