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HMT Derfflinger

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HMT Derfflinger
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HMT Huntsgreen arriving at Southampton, May 1922.
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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



Remarks

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.

List of soldiers carried

Alexandria to Lemnos Island & Gallipoli 5 - 25 April 1915

Gallipoli to Alexandria 27 - 30 Apr 1915

Alexandria to Mudros 21 - 26 May 1915