SS Thuringia (1922)
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Thuringia was an 11,251 GRT ocean liner that was built in 1922 by Howaldtswerke, Kiel, Germany for the Hamburg Amerikanische Paketfahrt AG, Hamburg. In 1930, she was renamed General San Martin. In 1934, she was chartered by Hamburg-Südamerikanische Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft and sold to them in 1936. She was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine in 1940 and served until 1945 as a barracks ship, and then as passenger ship during the evacuation of civilians from the Baltic.
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Builder | Howaldtswerke |
Launched | 12 August 1922 |
Completed | 10 January 1923 |
Commissioned | 20 January 1940 |
Decommissioned | 26 June 1945 |
Maiden voyage | 22 January 1923 |
Out of service | March 1949 |
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Fate | Scrapped |
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Tonnage | |
Length | 150.90 m (495 ft 1 in) |
Beam | 18.50 m (60 ft 8 in) |
Depth | 8.50 m (27 ft 11 in) |
Installed power | 5,300 shp (4.0 MW) |
Propulsion | Steam turbine |
Speed | 13.5 kn (25.0 km/h) |
Range | 13,500 nmi (25,000 km) |
Capacity | 158 Cabin class passengers and 380 3rd class passengers (Thuringia) |
Complement | 164 |
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She was seized in May 1945 by the British at Copenhagen, Denmark, passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Deben. She served as a troopship until 1949, when she was scrapped.