SS Bremen (1896)

History

German Empire
Name	Bremen
Namesake	Bremen
Owner	North German Lloyd
Port of registry	Bremen
Builder	F. Schichau, Danzig, Germany
Yard number	583
Launched	14 November 1896
Fate	Handed to Great Britain as war reparations 4 April 1919
United Kingdom
Name	Bremen
Owner	British Shipping Controller 1919, Byron SN Co., London 1921
Operator	P&O line 1919, Byron SN Co., London 1921
Acquired	1919
Renamed	Constantinople 1921, King Alexander 1924
Fate	Broken up Italy 1929
General characteristics
Class and type	Barbarossa-class ocean liner
Tonnage	10,525 GRT
Length	550 ft (170 m)
Beam	60.2 ft (18.3 m)
Draft	34 ft (10 m)
Propulsion	2 × quadruple-expansion steam engines, 8,000 hp (6,000 kW) twin screw propellers
Speed	15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph)
Capacity	230 First Class; 250 Second CLass; 1,850 steerage
Complement	250

SS Bremen, later renamed Constantinople and then King Alexander, was a German Barbarossa-class ocean liner that entered service in 1897 with Norddeutscher Lloyd.

History

The Bremen was built by F. Schichau of Danzig for the Norddeutscher-Lloyd line (NDL). She started her maiden voyage on 5 June 1897, traveling from Bremen to New York with a stopover at Southampton. In addition to the transatlantic run she also sailed from Bremen to Australia via the Suez Canal.^[1]

On 30 June 1900, she was badly damaged in a dockside fire at the NDL pier in Hoboken, New Jersey. The fire started in a bale of cotton. The Lloyd ships Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Saale and Main were also damaged in the fire, with the Saale sinking, whilst the Bremen ran aground. After the fire, Bremen was rebuilt by AG Vulcan Stettin, lengthened to 575 feet (175 m), and her tonnage was increased to 11,540 gross register tons (GRT). She reentered service in October 1901.^[1]

On 20 April 1912, while sailing from Bremen to New York City, Bremen passed through the debris field left by the sinking of RMS Titanic. A Bohemian passenger named Stephen Rehorek photographed an iceberg that matched eyewitness descriptions and sketches that had been given about the iceberg that Titanic struck. In addition, passengers and crew reported seeing hundreds of bodies floating in the water as well as many deck chairs and pieces of wood. Since there was already a ship specially chartered by White Star line to retrieve any bodies, the Bremen did not stop to recover any.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Bremen was laid up during World War I. After the war she was given to the British P&O line as part of the war reparations. Two years later she was sold to the Byron S.S. Co. and renamed Constantinople, and operated on the Piraeus-New York City route. By 1924, she was renamed King Alexander. She was scrapped in 1929.^[1]^[6]

References

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c Arnold Kludas. Great Passenger Ships of the World Vol 1 1858-1912. Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 18. ISBN 0-85059-174-0.
^ "UK | Scotland | Picture of 'Titanic iceberg' unveiled". BBC News. 28 July 2002. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
^ "Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board: S.S. Bremen's passengers view Titanic disaster". www.encyclopedia-titanica.org. Archived from the original on 9 January 2004. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
^ "Sinking of the Titanic - Chapter XXI". Archived from the original on 28 February 2008. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
^ "Titanic". Archived from the original on 3 January 2007. Retrieved 9 February 2007.
^ Sue Swiggum (5 February 2005). "National Greek Line - Byron SS Co". Theshipslist.com. Retrieved 25 January 2017.

Bibliography

External links

Media related to Bremen (ship, 1897) at Wikimedia Commons
A painting of SS Bremen

v t e Barbarossa-class ocean liners
Friedrich der Grosse Barbarossa Königin Luise Bremen König Albert Hamburg Prinzess Irene Kiautschou Moltke Blücher

v t e Ships of Norddeutscher Lloyd
Liners	Deutschland (1866) Weser (1867) Donau (1868) Elbe (1881) Saale (1886) Spree (1890) Barbarossa (1896) Friedrich der Große (1896) Königin Luise (1896) Bremen (1896) Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse (1897) Kaiser Friedrich (1898) Großer Kurfürst (1899) König Albert (1899) Princess Alice (1900) Prinzess Irene (1900) Kronprinz Wilhelm (1901) Kaiser Wilhelm II (1902) Scharnhorst (1904) Prinz Eitel Friedrich (1904) Bülow (1906) Kronprinzessin Cecilie Prinz Ludwig (1906) Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm (1907) Berlin (1908) George Washington (1908) Zeppelin (1914) München (1923) Columbus (1924) Berlin III (1925) Europa (1928) Bremen (1928) Neptun (1931) Scharnhorst (1934) Gneisenau (1935) Potsdam (1935) Europa (1953) Berlin (1954) Bremen (1957)
Cargo liners	Wittekind (1894) Willehad (1894) Coblenz (1897) Köln (1899) Main (1900) Breslau (1901) Rhein (1899) Neckar (1900) Alster (1928)
Cargo ships	Tübingen (1900) Herzogin Cecilie (1902) Locksun (1902) Hessen (1905) Westfalen (1905) Falke (1909) Pommern (1913) Mark (1913) Pfalz (1913) Taube (1922) Alk (1926) Ganter (1927) Donau (1929) Akka (1930) Ems (1937) Hannover (1939) Gotenland (1942) Weserstrom (1943) Weserwald (1943) Weserberg (1944) Weserstrand (1944) Greifswald (1945)¹
1. Ordered by Norddeutscher Lloyd, captured incomplete by Allied forces in 1945.

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1900
Shipwrecks	5 Jan: Ibex 31 Jan: Wolcott 11 Apr: RNLB Arab and RNLB James Stevens No. 4 30 Jun: Bremen, Main, Saale 27 Jun: William W. Ker 7 Jul: Idler 3 Aug: Fontana 11 Aug: Framée 12 Sep: John B. Lyon 22 Sep: Charkieh 24 Sep: Suffolk 16 Nov: T.H. Camp November (unknown date): USS Yosemite 16 Dec: SMS Gneisenau Unknown date: Copenhagen, Manchester
Other incidents	1 Jan: Prins van Oranje 4 Feb: HMS Repulse 6 Feb: Fazilka 30 Jun: 1900 Hoboken Docks fire, Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse 12 Sep: Coptic 18 Sep: Minnehaha 3 Oct: Berkeley, Columbia 20 Oct: Kommandøren
1899 1901

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