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BREMEN (1897)
Service dates: 1919-1921
Official number: 143171
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 14.11.1896
- Launched.
- 26.05.1897
- Completed as Bremen for Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen, for North Atlantic and Australian services.
- 05.06.1897
- Maiden voyage Bremerhaven/New York.
- 10.1897
- First voyage Bremer/Southampton/Suez/Adelaide/Melbourne/Sydney.
- 30.06.1900
- Badly damaged by fire at the wharf at Hoboken, New York, which spread to four NDL ships of which one was burned out. 300 lives were lost, 12 being in the Bremen which was run aground by tugs.
- 11.10.1900
- Sailed for Germany after temporary repairs. Full refit by Vulkan yard, Stettin.
- 10.1901
- Returned to service.
- 09.1905
- En route New York/Bremen when port propeller shaft broke. The starboard screw was unstable and the tanker Lucigen towed Bremen into Halifax.
- 12.1908
- Took 600 refugees from Messina to Naples after Mount Etna erupted.
- 10.1911
- Last NDL sailing Europe/Australia.
- 04.04.1919
- Handed over to The Shipping Controller as war reparations. Management assigned to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 05.06.1919
- First voyage on P&O’s Australian service.
- 1921
- Sold to Byron Steamship Company, London (M Embiricos, manager) and renamed Constantinople for their Piraeus/New York service.
- 1924
- Renamed King Alexander.
- 1929
- Broken up in Italy.