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USS Zeppelin (1914)
Operator: Orient Steam Navigation Company[2]
Route: Great Britain - Australia[2]
Acquired: from UK Government, 1920[2]
Commissioned: 12 November 1921[2]
Reclassified: Passenger liner[2]
Refit: 1920-21
Career Fate: Sold 1927[2]
Career (Germany)
Germany)
Name: SS Zeppelin[1]
Namesake: Ferdinand von Zeppelin Name: SS Dresden[1]
Port of registry: Bremen Operator: Norddeutscher Lloyd[1]
Builder: Bremer Vulkan AG[1] Port of registry: Bremen
Launched: 9 June 1914[2] Route: Bremen - New York[2]
Completed: 21 January 1915[2] Acquired: 1927[2]
Fate: Surrendered to United Kingdom 28 Refit: 1927[2]
March 1919[2]
Identification: Code Letters QMDS
Career (United [1]
Kingdom)
Fate: beached 21 June 1934 & broken up[2]
Name: SS Zeppelin
General characteristics
Operator: White Star Line[2]
Type: Passenger liner, Troop transport
Acquired: 1919[2]
Tonnage: 14,690 gt[1]
Fate: Transferred to US Navy
Displacement: 21,753 long tons (22,102 t)
Career
Length: 550.3 ft (167.7 m)[1]
Beam: 67.3 ft (20.5 m)[1]
Name: USS Zeppelin
Draught: 35.1 ft (10.7 m)[1]
Namesake: Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Installed power: 1850 NHP[1]
Route: Europe - New York
Propulsion: 2 quadruple-expansion steam engines;
Commissioned: 28 March 1919
2 screws[1]
Decommissioned: 25 November 1919
Speed: 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph)
Reclassified: Troop ship
Capacity: (1920-21 refit) 293 1st class, 882 3rd
Homeport: New York class[2]
(1927 refit) 399 1st class, 288 tourist
Fate: Returned to British control, 27 class, 284 3rd class[2]
December 1919
Career (United USS Zeppelin was a passenger liner launched in 1914 as
Kingdom) SS Zeppelin by Bremer Vulkan, Bremen-Vegesack,[1] Ger-
many, for Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL). Due to the First
Name: SS Ormuz[1] World War she never entered NDL service. She had a ca-
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reer after the war first under White Star Line control, was beached near Blikshavn.[2] In the early hours of 21
then briefly as the troop ship USS Zeppelin next as the
Zeppelin, June she listed to port and a Danish cargo steamer, DFDS’s
Orient SN Co liner SS Ormuz [1] and finally back with NDL 1,775 ton Kong Haakon,[3] took off her passengers.[2] One
as SS Dresden [1]
Dresden. life was lost in an accident during the transfer to the
freighter.[2]
Troop ship A firm of shipbreakers from Stavanger broke up the
ship where she lay.[2] Remnants of the wreck remain near
SS Zeppelin was launched on 9 June 1914, and on comple- the shore, between 4 m (13 ft) and 10 m (33 ft) depth.
tion she was handed over to NDL on 21 January 1915.[2]
By then the First Battle of the Atlantic of the First World
War was under way so NDL laid her up at Bremen until
References
the end of hostilities.[2] [1] ^ "Details of the Ship Name: Dresden". Plimsoll
On 28 March 1919 she was surrendered as war repa- ShipData. http://www.plimsollshipdata.org/
rations to the UK Government, who placed her under ship.php?ship_id=49988&name=Dresden. Retrieved
the management of the White Star Line.[2] She was then 31 July 2010.
handed over to the United States Navy, who commis- [2] ^ "Zeppelin". Titanic Titanic.com.
sioned her as USS Zeppelin and assigned to the New York http://www.titanic-titanic.com/zeppelin.shtml.
Division of the Transport Force with Commander William Retrieved 31 July 2010.
W. Galbraith as her master. [3] Haakon "Details of the Ship Name: Kong Haakon".
USS Zeppelin made two round-trip voyages between Plimsoll ShipData.
the United States and Europe, returning 15,800 American http://www.plimsollshipdata.org/
soldiers back home. She then returned to Europe, was ship.php?ship_id=60356&name=Kong Haakon.
decommissioned on 25 November 1919 and returned to Retrieved 31 July 2010.
United Kingdom control on 27 December 1919. This article incorporates public domain material from web-
sites or documents of the Naval History & Heritage Command.
Civilian liner This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of
American Naval Fighting Ships.
The UK Government sold her to the Orient Steam Navi-
gation Company in 1920, who renamed her SS Ormuz and
had her refitted as a passenger liner.[2] Orient line placed
External links
her in service on the route between Great Britain and • history.navy.mil: USS Zeppelin
Australia, on which she began her first sailing from Bri- • USS Zeppelin
tain on 12 November 1921.[2] • SS Dresden
In 1927 NDL bought Ormuz back and had her refitted Coordinates: 59°12′07″N 05°19′08″E / 59.20194°N
to upgrade much of the third class accommodation to 5.31889°E / 59.20194; 5.31889
first class or tourist class. NDL renamed her SS Dresden
and placed her in service on the Bremen - New York
route for which she had originally been built.
KdF cruise and loss
In 1934 the Nazi Kraft durch Freude organization started
operating tourist cruises.[2] KdF chartered Dresden and
she sailed on her first KdF cruise on 11 June 1934.[2] On 20
June she struck a rock off Kopervik on the Norwegian is-
land of Karmøy.[2] She was refloated but as a precaution
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