Yuri Dolgoruki
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Germany | |
Name: | SS Hamburg |
Owner: | Hamburg America Line |
Route: | Hamburg–New York City |
Builder: | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany |
Yard number: | 473 |
Launched: | 14 November 1925 |
In service: | 28 March 1926 |
History | |
Nazi Germany | |
Name: | Hamburg |
Commissioned: | 1 January 1940 |
Fate: | Sunk by mine, 7 March 1945 |
History | |
Soviet Union | |
Name: | Yuri Dolgoruki |
Acquired: | by salvage, 1950 |
In service: | 12 July 1960 |
Fate: | Scrapped, 1977 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Ocean liner |
Tonnage: | 22,117 GRT |
Displacement: | 28,000 t (27,560 long tons) |
Length: | 206.50 m (677 ft 6 in) |
Beam: | 24 m (78 ft 9 in) |
Height: | 16.92 m (55 ft 6 in) |
Draught: | 9.95 m (32 ft 8 in) |
Decks: | 5 |
Installed power: | 28,000 PS (20,590 kW; 27,620 shp) |
Propulsion: | 2 steam turbines, 2 5.20 m (17.1 ft) propellers |
Speed: | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
Range: | 9,600 nmi (17,800 km; 11,000 mi) at 19 knots |
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SS Hamburg was a German ocean liner owned by the Hamburg America Line, built by the Blohm & Voss of Hamburg, Germany and launched in 1925. She had a sister ship, SS New York. They were similar to the SS Albert Ballin.
During World War II, the ship became a naval accommodation ship for the Kriegsmarine in 1940 and served with the 7th U-boat Flotilla in Kiel. Reassigned to 3rd U-boat Flotilla on 1 March 1941, Hamburg was transferred to 6th U-boat Flotilla in Danzig in October. From June 1943, Hamburg was relocated to Gotenhafen and assigned to 8th U-boat Flotilla. On 7 March 1945 during the evacuation of Germans from the Eastern Front, she struck a mine and sank off Saßnitz in position 54°30′00″N 13°42′02″E / 54.50000°N 13.70056°ECoordinates: 54°30′00″N 13°42′02″E / 54.50000°N 13.70056°E.