SS Fürst Bismarck (1905)
Fürst Bismarck | |
| History | |
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| Namesake |
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| Owner |
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| Operator | 1919: Orient SN Co |
| Port of registry | |
| Route | |
| Builder | Fairfield S&E, Govan |
| Yard number | 438 |
| Launched | 22 March 1905 |
| Completed | 19 June 1905 |
| Maiden voyage | 19 August 1905, Hamburg – Hoboken |
| Refit | 1914 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | scrapped 1935 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | ocean liner |
| Tonnage | 8,332 GRT, 5,067 NRT, 7,480 DWT |
| Length | 469.2 ft (143.0 m) |
| Beam | 55.1 ft (16.8 m) |
| Depth | 29.7 ft (9.1 m) |
| Decks | 3 |
| Installed power | 783 NHP; 6,500 ihp |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Capacity | passengers: 243 × 1st class; × 44 × 2nd class; 1,300 × 3rd class |
| Crew | 212 |
| Sensors & processing systems | by 1910: submarine signalling |
| Notes | sister ship: Kronprinzessin Cecilie |
SS Fürst Bismarck was a Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) ocean liner. She was launched in Scotland in 1905. In 1914 she was renamed Friedrichsruh. In 1919 the United Kingdom seized her as World War I reparations. In 1921 Messageries Maritimes acquired her and renamed her Amboise. She was scrapped in Italy in 1935.
The ship spent much of her HAPAG career on the route between Hamburg and Vera Cruz. For most of her Messageries Maritimes career her route was between Marseille and Haiphong.
She was the second HAPAG ocean liner to be named after Otto von Bismarck. HAPAG's first Fürst Bismarck was launched in 1890 and sold to Russia in 1904.