.jpg) Cleveland inHong Kong, 1909. | |
| History | |
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| Name |
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| Namesake |
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| Owner |
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| Port of registry |
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| Route |
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| Builder | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg |
| Launched | 26 September 1908 |
| Maiden voyage | 27 March 1909 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Scrapped 1933 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 16,970 GRT, 10,145 NRT |
| Displacement | 27,000 tons |
| Length | 588.9 ft (179.5 m) |
| Beam | 65.3 ft (19.9 m) |
| Draught | 50 ft 0 in (15.24 m) |
| Depth | 46.6 ft (14.2 m) |
| Decks | 3 |
| Installed power | by 1930: 2,046NHP |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Capacity |
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| Crew | 1919: 573 |
| Sensors & processing systems |
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| Notes | sister ship:Cincinnati |
SSCleveland was a Germantransatlanticocean liner that was launched in 1908 and scrapped in 1933.Cleveland was built for theHamburg America Line (HAPAG) as asister ship forCincinnati.
In 1919Cleveland became thetroop shipUSSMobile (ID-4030). In 1920 it returned to civilian service as theUK linerKing Alexander. In 1923United American Lines bought her and restored it original nameCleveland.
In 1926 HAPAG boughtCleveland back. It was laid up from 1931 and scrapped in 1933.
Blohm & Voss builtCleveland atHamburg. She was launched on 26 September 1908, two months after her sisterCincinnati.[1]
Cleveland'sregistered length was 588.9 ft (179.5 m), her beam was 65.3 ft (19.9 m) and her depth was 46.6 ft (14.2 m). Hertonnages were 16,970 GRT and 10,145 NRT.[2] As built, she had berths for 2,827 passengers: 246 first class, 332 second class, 448 third class and 1,801 steerage class.[1] She also had 29,577 cubic feet (838 m3) ofrefrigerated hold space for perishable cargo.[3]
Cleveland had twinscrews, each driven by aquadruple expansion steam engine.[2] They gave her a speed of 16 knots (30 km/h).[1]
Cleveland began her maiden voyage fromHamburg toNew York on 27 March 1909.[1] Late that August, HAPAG transferredCaptain Christian Dempwolf fromMoltke to beMaster ofCleveland.[4]
Cleveland spent the next five years mostly in scheduled transatlantic service. She also made six cruises around the World.[1] On 24 January 1912 she was being moved inHonolulu Harbor when herpilot, Milton P Sanders, died of aheart attack.[5] As a result, control ofCleveland was lost, and her bow collided with the stern of thecruiserUSS Colorado.[6]
By 1913Cleveland was equipped forwireless telegraphy. Hercall sign was DDV.[7]
HAPAG had scheduled further World cruises forCleveland and her sister for 1915.Cleveland was due to leave Hamburg on 14 January 1915 and return on 4 June. Instead, in the First World War HAPAG suspended its passenger services andCleveland was laid up in Hamburg.[1]
In 1919 theUnited States Government seizedCincinnati asWorld War I reparations. She was converted atLiverpool, England into a troop ship with berths for 4,620 troops, and commissioned as USSMobile.[8]
Mobile made nine transatlantic crossings fromFrance to the USA, repatriating a total of 21,073 US troops. In November 1919 she was decommissioned and relinquished to theUnited States Shipping Board.[8]
White Star Line brieflycharteredMobile, and then the Byron Steamship Company bought her and renamed herKing Alexander afterAlexander of Greece. The company was a UK-based subsidiary of the National Greek Line. HenceKing Alexander was registered inLondon[9] but her new route was betweenGreece and the USA.[1]
In 1923United American Lines boughtKing Alexander and restored her original nameCleveland.Prohibition in the United States had begun in 1920, so UAL registered her inPanama to enable her to serve liquor aboard. UAL hadCleveland refitted in Hamburg and restored to her Hamburg – New York route.[1]
In 1926 HAPAG bought backCleveland and two other former HAPAG passenger liners from UAL forℛℳ 10 million.[10]
In 1929 a Bauer-Wach exhaust turbine system was added to each ofCleveland's engines.[11] Exhaust steam from the low-pressure cylinder drove a turbine, which viadouble-reduction gearing and aFöttingerfluid coupling drove the same shaft as the reciprocating engine. The two turbines increasedCleveland's total installed power to 2,046NHP.[2]
Cleveland was laid up from 1931. In 1933 HAPAG sold her back to Blohm & Voss for scrap.[1]
