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| History | |
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| Name | SS Königin Luise |
| Builder/Built | 1896 AG Vulcan Steettin, Germany |
| Type | Ocean Liner (twin screw) |
| Displacement | 10,566 tons |
| Speed | 15 knots |
Contents
Remarks
Built for the North German Lloyd (NDL) Line, and used on the Australian, Far East and North Atlantic routes.
Bottled up in German ports during WW1, she was part of the German reparations to Britain after the war.
Sold to the Orient Steam Navigation Company, they renamed her SS Omar in 1921, before selling her in 1924 to the Byron Steam Ship Co of London who called her the SS Edison.
Scrapped in Italy during 1935.
Soldiers carried
England to Fremantle 21 June - 3 August 1919
- George Bett post WW1
- Robert Lightbody
- Samuel Mellington Moore
- William Percival Nairn
- Arthur Thomas Orton MM
- John Donaldson Patterson & wife to Cape Town 16 Jul 1919
- William Robert Rigby
- Francis Joseph (Frank) Steffan