S.S. Königan Luise
launched 1896
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| The S.S. Königin Luise was built for a North German, Norddeutscher Lloyd, by AG Vulcan, Stettin(order #232), and launched on 17 October 1896. 10,566 tons; 168,3 x 18,3 meters (length x breadth); 2 funnels, 2 masts;twin-screw propulsion, quadruple-expansion engines, service speed 15 knots; her accommodations serviced: |
227 
1st class passengers 235
2nd class passengers 1,564
steerage passengers |
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22
March 1897, maiden voyage, Bremen-Falmouth
(arrived,
unscheduled, 29 March, with a broken rudder, her passengers being
transferred a few days later to the FRIEDRICH DER GROSSE; departed
22 April) - New York.
17
November 1897, first voyage, Bremen-Suez Canal-Australia.
1902,
bridge enclosed; 10,711 tons; accommodation for 148 passengers in 1st class,
138 in 2nd class, 1,940 in steerage.
25 February 1904 - 25 May
1911, Genoa-Naples-New York.
25
October 1911, last voyage, Bremen-Australia (10 roundtrip voyages).
16
March 1912, resumed Bremen-New York service.
18
April-25 June 1914, 3 roundtrip voyages, Bremen-Philadelphia-Baltimore.
August
1914, laid up at Bremen.
10
April 1919, surrendered to British Shipping Controller at Southend, first
of three German liners to be
managed by the Orient Line.
4
September 1920, first voyage for the Orient Line to Australia; 11,103
tons.
8
September 1920, in Lisbon, collided with and sank the British steamship
LOUGHBOROUGH.
1920,
fractured a shaft, flooding the hold.
29
January 1921, purchased by the Orient Line and renamed OMAR.
July
1924, sold to the Byron Line (the London branch of the Embiricos Brothers)
and renamed
16
October 1924, first voyage, Piraeus-Patras-Naples-New York.
August
1928, registered in the name of the National Greek Line (a sister concern
of the Byron Line).
29
December 1932, last voyage, New York-Boston-Piraeus.
30
July 1935, arrived at Genoa for scrapping |
| [Edwin Drechsel,_Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, 1857-1970; History, Fleet, Ship Mails_, vol. 1 (Vancouver: Cordillera Pub. Co., c1994), p. 170, no. 98 (photograph); Arnold Kludas, _Die grossen Passagierschiffe der Welt; eine Dokumentation_, Bd. 1: 1858-1912 (2nd ed.; Oldenburg/Hamburg: Gerhard Stalling, c1972), pp. 20-21 (photographs); Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, _North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New_ (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 2 (1978), p. 559]. Also pictured in Michael J. Anuta, _Ships of Our Ancestors_ (Menominee, MI: Ships of Our Ancestors, 1983), p. 153 (where her name is misspelled), courtesy of: The Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, MA 01970 |
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