SS Prinz Adalbert

History
Name:
  • Prinz Adalbert (1902-1916)
  • Princetown (1916-1917)
  • Alesia (1917)
Owner:
Builder: Bremer Vulkan Schiffbau & Machinen Fabrik, Bremen-Vegesack
Yard number: 452
Launched: 21 August 1902
Fate: Sunk on 6 September 1917
General characteristics
Displacement:
Length: 403.3 ft (122.9 m)
Beam: 49.2 ft (15.0 m)
Depth: 27.1 ft (8.3 m)
Propulsion:
  • Quadruple expansion 8-cylinder engine
  • Twin screws
Speed: 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Capacity:
  • 60 first class passengers
  • 1,200 third class passengers

SS Prinz Adalbert, was a German ocean liner of the Hamburg America Line. She was built by Bremer Vulkan Schiffbau & Machinen Fabrik, Bremen-Vegesack and launched on 21 August 1902.[1]

In 1912, the Prinz Adalbert was one of several ships to sight the iceberg suspected of sinking RMS Titanic.[2]

On the declaration of War in August 1914, she was captured at Falmouth, Cornwall, by Britain and was operated by the Admiralty and renamed Princetown in 1916. She was transferred to France in 1917 and renamed Alesia. On 6 September 1917 she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine SM UC-50, off Ushant.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Prinz Adalbert : Hamburg-America Line". Titanicinquiry.org. Retrieved 2015-05-06.
  2. ↑ Gayle, Damien (2012-04-16). "You've heard about the Titanic, what about the other major player in the world's most famous disaster... the iceberg? | Daily Mail Online". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-05-06.
  3. ↑ "PRINZ ADALBERT OCEAN LINER 1917-1917 - WRECK WRAK EPAVE WRACK PECIO". Wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 2015-05-06.

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