SS Hamburg (1925)

For other ships with the same name, see SS Hamburg and SS Hamburg (1969).

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.

SS Hamburg
History
Weimar Republic
Name	SS Hamburg
Owner	Hamburg America Line
Route	Hamburg–New York City
Builder	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany
Yard number	473
Launched	14 November 1925
In service	28 March 1926
Fate	Sold to the Kriegsmarine
Nazi Germany
Name	Hamburg
Operator	Kriegsmarine
Commissioned	1 January 1940
Fate	Sunk by mine, 7 March 1945
Soviet Union
Name	Yuri Dolgoruki
Acquired	By salvage, 1950
In service	12 July 1960
Fate	Scrapped, 1977
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner
Tonnage	22,117 GRT
Displacement	28,000 t (27,560 long tons)
Length	206.50 m (677 ft 6 in)
Beam	24 m (78 ft 9 in)
Height	16.92 m (55 ft 6 in)
Draught	9.95 m (32 ft 8 in)
Decks	5
Installed power	28,000 PS (20,590 kW; 27,620 shp)
Propulsion	2 steam turbines, 2 5.20 m (17.1 ft) propellers
Speed	19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Range	9,600 nmi (17,800 km; 11,000 mi) at 19 knots
Capacity	222 first class passengers 471 second class 456 third class

Yuri Dolgoruki

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.^[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. Gröner 1988, pp. 75–76.

Bibliography

• Gröner, Erich (1988). Hilfsschiffe II: Lazarettschiffe, Wohnschiffe, Schulschiffe, Forschungsfahrzeuge, Hafenbetriebsfahrzeuge (I). Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815–1945 (in German). Vol. V. Koblenz: Bernard & Graefe. ISBN 3-7637-4804-0.

External links

• Hamburg America Line SS Hamburg Ephemera GG Archives