{{Infobox ship
|Ship image=
|Ship caption=Yuri Dolgoruki
|module=
Career (Germany)
Name:
SS HamburgOwner:
Hamburg America LineRoute:
Hamburg–New York CityBuilder:
Blohm & Voss Shipbuilders, Hamburg, GermanyLaunched:
1926
|module2=
Career (Germany)
Name:
HamburgCommissioned:
1940Fate:
Sunk by mine, 7 March 1945
|module3=
Career (USSR)
Name:
Yuri DolgorukiAcquired:
by salvage, 1950Fate:
Scrapped, 1977}
|module4=
General characteristics Type:
Ocean linerTonnage:
21,132 gross register tons (GRT)Length:
635 ft (194 m)Beam:
72 ft (22 m)Propulsion:
Steam turbines, twin screwsSpeed:
15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph)Capacity:
222 first class passengers
471 second class
456 third class
|}
SS Hamburg was a German ocean liner owned by the Hamburg America Line, built by the Blohm & Voss Shipbuilders of Hamburg, Germany and launched in 1926. She had a sister ship the New York. They were similar to the SS Albert Ballin.
She became a naval accommodation ship for the German Navy in 1940. On 7 March 1945 during the evacuation of the forces from the Eastern Front, she struck a mine and sank. She was then salvaged by the Soviets in 1950. She was intended to become a passenger ship, the Yuri Dolgoruki she was instead finished in 1960 as a mother ship for whalers. She was then scrapped in 1977.
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The original article can be found at SS Hamburg (1926) and the edit history here.