SS Hamburg (1926)

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.

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

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). V. Koblenz: Bernard & Graefe. ISBN 3-7637-4804-0.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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