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The Karlsruhe



The Karlsruhe
Photo: Peabody Essex Museum

  

Built by A/G Vulcan Shipyard, Stettin, Germany, 1900.
10881 gross tons; 540 (bp) feet long; 60 feet wide.
Steam quadruple expansion engines, twin screw.
Service speed unknown knots.
2354 passengers
268 first class,
132 second class,
1954 third class .

Built for North German Lloyd, German flag, in 1900 and named Princess Irene.
Bremerhaven-Australia service. Interned at New York 1914-17.
Transferred to U.S. Shipping Board, in 1917 and renamed USS Pocahontas.
Chartered by U.S. Mail Steamship Company, in 1919. New York-Mediterranean service.
Sold to North German Lloyd, German flag, in 1921 and renamed Bremen.
Bremerhaven-New York service.
Renamed Karlsruhe in 1928.
Bremerhaven-Gulf of Mexico service.
Scrapped at Bremerhaven in 1932.

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