HMT Derfflinger
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 HMT Huntsgreen arriving at Southampton, May 1922. | |
 HMT Derfflinger 1927 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | HMT Derfflinger |
| Owner | North German Lloyd, Bremen |
| Builder | F. Schichau, Danzig |
| Launched | 9 Nov 1917 |
| Completed | 1908 |
| In service | 9 May 1908 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | passenger / cargo shi |
| Tonnage | 9,162 tons |
| Length | 463 ft |
| Beam | 57.5 ft |
| Propulsion | twin screw |
| Speed | 14 knots (25.93 km/h) |
| Capacity | 104 x 1st class; 104 x 2nd class and 1,919 x 3rd class |
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Built for Norddeutscher Lloyd of Bremen with capacity of 104 first class, 104 second class and 1,919 3rd class passengers. After an initial voyage to New York, she was used on the Germany to Far East via Suez Canal route. Captured by the British at Port Said in 1914 and used as a troopship. SS " Huntsgreen" accompanied by other transports steamed for the Gallipoli Peninsula, where she arrived on the 5th August 1915 being the day on which the original Suvia bay landing was made. Later renamed HMT Huntsgreen. Carried wounded from Gallipoli to Alexandria, and troops back to Gallipoli.
Operated until 1923 as a troopship, before being sold back to her previous owners and given her original name back. Her last Bremen - Halifax -
Galveston sailing was on 3rd May 1928 and she subsequently returned to the Far East service until 1932 when she was scrapped at Bremerhaven.
See also HMT Huntsgreen.