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{{Infobox ship |Ship image=Yuri Dolgoruki |Ship caption=Yuri Dolgoruki

|module= Career (Germany) Weimar Republic flag Name: SS HamburgOwner: Hamburg America LineRoute: Hamburg–New York CityBuilder: Blohm & Voss Shipbuilders, Hamburg, GermanyLaunched: 1926 |module2= Career (Germany) Kriegsmarine Jack Name: HamburgCommissioned: 1940Fate: Sunk by mine, 7 March 1945 |module3= Career (USSR) Soviet ensign 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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