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Career (Weimar Republic)
Name:
SS HamburgOwner:
Hamburg America LineRoute:
Hamburg–New York CityBuilder:
Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, GermanyYard number:
473Launched:
14 November 1925In service:
28 March 1926Fate:
Sold to the Kriegsmarine
Career (Nazi Germany)
Name:
HamburgOperator:
KriegsmarineCommissioned:
1 January 1940Fate:
Sunk by mine, 7 March 1945
Yuri Dolgoruki
SS Hamburg was a German ocean liner owned by the Hamburg America Line, built by the Blohm & Voss of Hamburg, Germany, and launched in 1925. She had a sister ship, SS New York. They were similar to the SS Albert Ballin.
During World War II, the ship became a naval accommodation ship for the Kriegsmarine in 1940 and served with the 7th U-boat Flotilla in Kiel. Reassigned to 3rd U-boat Flotilla on 1 March 1941, Hamburg was transferred to 6th U-boat Flotilla in Danzig in October. From June 1943, Hamburg was relocated to Gotenhafen and assigned to 8th U-boat Flotilla. On 7 March 1945 during the evacuation of Germans from the Eastern Front, she struck a mine and sank off Saßnitz in position 54°30′00″N 13°42′02″E / 54.5°N 13.70056°ECoordinates: 54°30′00″N 13°42′02″E / 54.5°N 13.70056°E.[1]
The wreck was raised by the Soviets and converted to a whaler at Warnowwerft, Warnemünde, from 7 November 1950. Becoming Yuri Dolgoruki, the ship was put in service on 12 July 1960. She was then broken up in 1977.[1]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gröner 1988, pp. 75–76.
Bibliography[]
- Gröner, Erich (1988) (in German). Hilfsschiffe II: Lazarettschiffe, Wohnschiffe, Schulschiffe, Forschungsfahrzeuge, Hafenbetriebsfahrzeuge (I). V. Koblenz: Bernard & Graefe. ISBN 3-7637-4804-0.
External links[]
- Hamburg America Line SS Hamburg Ephemera GG Archives
The original article can be found at SS Hamburg (1925) and the edit history here.