Engineering:SS Potsdam (1899)
 Potsdam, c.1910
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| Builder: | Blohm + Voss |
| Yard number: | 139 |
| Launched: | 15 December 1899 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1946–1947 |
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| Length: | 167.66 m (550.1 ft) |
| Beam: | 18.93 m (62.1 ft) |
| Draft: | 10.51 m (34.5 ft) |
| Installed power: | 2 × triple-expansion steam engines 7,600 ihp (5,700 kW) |
| Propulsion: | Twin screws |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Capacity: | 1120 passengers |
SS Potsdam was an ocean liner completed in 1900 by the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany for the Holland America Line (HAL) for transatlantic service from Rotterdam to New York City . She was the largest ship operated by HAL at the time.[1][2]
In 1915 the ship was sold to the newly founded Swedish American Line and renamed SS Stockholm for transatlantic service from Gothenburg to New York. In 1929 she was sold to Norway interests and converted to the whale factory ship SS Solglimt. Following the German invasion of Norway in 1940 Solglimt was captured by the Kriegsmarine, transferred to the First German Whaling Company and renamed SS Sonderburg.[2][3]
Sonderburg was scuttled by German troops in 1944 to block entrance to Cherbourg Harbour. In 1946 she was partially demolished to clear the shipway, with the final remains towed to the United Kingdom in 1947 to be scrapped.[2]
Stockholm enters port with a thousand African Americans of the 369th New York Regiment returning from WWI
Solglimt being bombed by the British in Cherbourg in 1942
References
- ↑ Asklander, Micke. "S/S Potsdam (1900)" (in Swedish). http://www.faktaomfartyg.se/potsdam_1900.htm.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ljungström, Henrik. "Potsdam/Stockholm (I)/Solglimt/Sonderburg 1900 - 1947". http://www.thegreatoceanliners.com/potsdam.html.
- ↑ Boyle, Ian. "Stockholm (1) 1915-28". http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/SwedishAmericaPCs.html#anchor20978.
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