SS Bismarck



SS Bismarck is a Hamburg America Line liner that has served on the North Atlantic, and the Pacific Ocean runs. SS Bismarck was launched in 1914. At 56,551 gross register tons, she was the largest ship in the world until completion of the SS Normandie in 1935. The third and largest member of German HAPAG Line's trio of transatlantic liners.

She was finished in late 1913, and She served successfully throughout the 1920s on the Atlantic route offering regular service to Halifax, New York, and Port-au-Prince before the depression. During the depression she became unprofitable on the Atlantic route, and was transferred to serve the needs of the booming German Pacific colony of Paupa New Guinea. SS Bismarck can carry 2,145 passengers, 750 first class, 545 second class, and 850 third class and has a crew of 850. During emergencies she can be converted to serve as a hospital ship with a capacity of 2500 wounded, or a troop transport with a capacity of 9,500 troops.

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