USS Zeppelin
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USS Zeppelin was a passenger liner launched in 1914 as SS Zeppelin by Bremer Vulkan, Bremen-Vegesack,[1] Germany, for Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL). Due to the First World War she never entered NDL service. She had a career after the war first under White Star Line control, then briefly as the troop ship USS Zeppelin, next as the Orient SN Co liner SS Ormuz[1] and finally back with NDL as SS Dresden.[1]
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German Empire | |
Name | SS Zeppelin[1] |
Namesake | Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Port of registry | Bremen |
Builder | Bremer Vulkan AG[1] |
Launched | 9 June 1914[2] |
Completed | 21 January 1915[2] |
Fate | Surrendered to United Kingdom 28 March 1919[2] |
United Kingdom | |
Name | SS Zeppelin |
Operator | White Star Line[2] |
Acquired | 1919[2] |
Fate | Transferred to US Navy |
United States | |
Name | USS Zeppelin |
Namesake | Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Route | Europe - New York |
Commissioned | 28 March 1919 |
Decommissioned | 25 November 1919 |
Reclassified | Troop ship |
Homeport | New York |
Fate | Returned to British control, 27 December 1919 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | RMS Ormuz[1] |
Operator | Orient Steam Navigation Company[2] |
Route | Great Britain - Australia[2] |
Acquired | from UK Government, 1920[2] |
Commissioned | 12 November 1921[2] |
Reclassified | Passenger liner[2] |
Refit | 1920-21 |
Fate | Sold 1927[2] |
Weimar Republic | |
Name | SS Dresden[1] |
Operator | Norddeutscher Lloyd[1] |
Port of registry | Bremen |
Route | Bremen - New York[2] |
Acquired | 1927[2] |
Refit | 1927[2] |
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Fate | Beached 21 June 1934 & broken up[2] |
General characteristics | |
Type | Passenger liner, troop transport |
Tonnage | 14,690 GRT[1] |
Displacement | 21,753 long tons (22,102 t) |
Length | 550.3 ft (167.7 m)[1] |
Beam | 67.3 ft (20.5 m)[1] |
Draught | 35.1 ft (10.7 m)[1] |
Installed power | 1850 NHP[1] |
Propulsion | 2 quadruple-expansion steam engines; 2 screws[1] |
Speed | 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) |
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