Barbarossa class ocean liner
SS Bremen in port in 1905
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Barbarossa-class ocean liner |
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| Built: | 1896–1901 |
| In service: | 1896–1935 |
| Completed: | 10 |
| Lost: | 1 sunk in service |
| Scrapped: | 9 |
| Preserved: | None |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | ocean liner |
| Tonnage: | 10,525–12,335 GT (gross tonnage) |
| Length: | 152.18–160.19 m (499.3–525.6 ft), LBP |
| Beam: | 18.29–18.99 m (60.0–62.3 ft) |
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| Speed: | 15–16 kn (28–30 km/h; 17–18 mph) |
| Passengers: |
2,026–2,392, consisting of:
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| Crew: | 171–250, depending on season and ship |
| Notes: | two funnels, two masts |
The Barbarossa class was a class of ocean liners of North German Lloyd and the Hamburg America Line of the German Empire. Of the ten ships built between 1896 and 1902, six were built by AG Vulcan Stettin, three were built by Blohm & Voss, and one was built by Schichau-Werke; all were built in Germany. They averaged 11,000 gross register tons (GRT) and featured twin screw propellers driven by quadruple-expansion steam engines.
The first four ships of the class, Friedrich der Grosse, Barbarossa, Königin Luise, and Bremen were launched in 1896 for North German Lloyd (German: Norddeutscher Lloyd or NDL) in a combination class usable on several of NDL's routes. The class was intended to be called the Bremen class but delays in the building of that ship caused the class to instead be named after Barbarossa. Despite the name of the class, the first ship launched was Friedrich der Grosse in August—at 10,531 GRT, the first German ship over 10,000 GRT—followed by Barbarossa,Königin Luise, and Bremen at monthly intervals. These first four ships were used on Australian, Far East, and North Atlantic routes for NDL. On Australian and Far East voyages, the liners transited the Suez Canal, and were, along with NDL's Grosser Kurfürst, the largest ships regularly using the canal. The size of these liners was a principal reason for the canal's deepening; Bremen, on one trip to Australia, became the first ship to transit the newly deepened canal.
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