SS Windhuk
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| History | |
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| Name | SS Windhuk |
| Owner | Woermann line / UK Government |
| Builder | Blohm & Voss |
| Yard number | 181 |
| Launched | 8 Nov 1905 |
| Completed | 25 Jan 1906 |
| In service | 24 Apr 1907 |
| Out of service | 1958 |
| Fate | scrapped 1950 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 6,344 tons |
| Length | 132.2 m |
| Beam | 15.5 m |
| Depth | draught 8.7 m |
| Propulsion | twin screw |
| Speed | 12 knots (22.22 km/h) |
| Capacity | 125 crew |
Remarks
Owned by the German-East Africa Line and used between former German territories in Africa and Hamburg, sailing under the name Gertrud Woermann. In April 1907 it was transferred to the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (Hapag).
When the First World War broke out, the Windhoek was in Hamburg. In 1919 she was delivered to Great Britain, and its first use was to carry Australian trops and their new wives to Australia from England. Her name was changed to City of Genoa and she was used in the Africa service of Ellerman Lines . In 1928 they then sold her to a shipping company based in Angola , which used the ship under the new name João Belo until 1950 on the service between Portugal and Mozambique via their African colonies.