Image:ShipBarbarossa-1897.png

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Description

Postcard image of the Ship Barbarossa.

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About the Ship

Built by Blohm & Voss Shipbuilders, Hamburg, Germany, 1897. 10,769 gross tons; 548 (bp) feet long; 60 feet wide. Steam Quadruple Expansion engines, twin screw. Service speed 14.5 knots. 2,392 passengers (230 first class, 227 second class, 1935 third class). Two funnels and two masts.

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Ship History

Built for North German Lloyd, German flag, in 1897 and named Barbarossa. Bremerhaven-Australia and Bremerhaven-New York service. Interned at New York 1914-17.

Seized by United States Navy, American flag, in 1917 and renamed USS Mercury. Troop transport service.

Scrapped in 1924.

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Source

Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, retrieved 12 Oct 2016.

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