SS Königin Luise
From Our Contribution
 SLWA photo B2287 043 5 | |
 Troopship SS Königin Luise arriving at Fremantle Harbour 3 Aug 1919 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | SS Konigen Luise |
| Owner | North German Lloyd (NDL) line |
| Builder | AG Vulcan Steettin, Germany |
| Yard number | 232 |
| Launched | 17 Oct 1896 |
| Completed | 17 Mar 1897 |
| In service | 1897 |
| Out of service | 1914 Laid up |
| In service | 10 Apr 1919 |
| Out of service | 1935 |
| Fate | scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ocean Liner |
| Tonnage | 10,566 tons |
| Length | 552 ft (168 m) |
| Beam | 60.1 ft (18.3 m) |
| Depth | 34.9 ft (10.6 m) |
| Propulsion | twin screw |
| Speed | 15 knots (27.78 km/h) |
| Capacity | crew of 231 |
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Remarks
Built for the North German Lloyd (NDL) Line, and used on the Australian, Far East and North Atlantic routes. When war broke out she was in a German port and was as a result of the British blockade of German ports, laid up until the end of the war, after which she was a part of the reparations paid to Britain. She was surrendered on 10 Apr 1919 and allocated to the Orient Steam Navigation Company which operated her initially using her existing name before renaming her SS Omar in 1921. She made three journeys to Australia carrying troops returning home, with her return journey carrying British troops home from Burma and India.
The Orient Steam Navigation Company, sold her in 1924 to the Byron Steam Ship Co of London who then renamed her SS Edison. She was then used on the Piraeus to New York route until she was scrapped in Italy during 1935.
Soldiers carried
England to Fremantle 21 June - 3 August 1919
- Arthur Charles Barber
- George Bett post WW1
- John Henry Holroyd
- Robert Lightbody
- Samuel Mellington Moore
- Charles Henry Murray
- William Percival Nairn
- Arthur Thomas Orton MM
- John Donaldson Patterson & wife to Cape Town 16 Jul 1919
- George William Piesley
- Edwin Lawrence Reed
- William Robert Rigby
- Reginald George Sinclair
- Clarence Otto Sladden
- Francis Joseph (Frank) Steffan
- William John Thompson
- Norman Sedrick Tonkin
- Alan Harry Wilkinson arrived in the district post WW1