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The SS ''Scharnhorst'' was a German 
''Scharnhorst'' belonged to a class of eleven steamers known as the ''Generals-class''. Her sisterships were the steamships ''Zieten'', ''Roon'', ''Seydlitz'', ''Gneisenau'', ''Bülow'', ''York'', ''Kleist'', ''Goeben'', ''Lützow'' and ''Derfflinger'', all built for the German Imperial Mail Service to Australia and the Far East. Occasionally these ships were run on the North Atlantic service of the Lloyd.
On 19 December 1908, ''Scharnhorst'' arrived in New York harbor, after having been delayed by inclement weather. Two passengers died on the trip, one killed by a wave that smashed him into the railing. Both passengers were buried the next day.
When the First World War started she had made 19 round trips to Australia, seven to the Far East and five to the USA. She was the only ship of her class to be in Germany in 1914 and was used for some time in 1917 and 1918 as a troop transport in the
SCHARNHORST (1904)/LA BOURDONNAIS [1921], at Palmer List of Merchant VesselsPaquebot ''La Bourdonnais''
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passenger liner
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and mail ship launched in 1904. The ship was laid down at the Joh. C. Tecklenborg
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shipyard in Geestemünde
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, Germany, for the Norddeutscher Lloyd
Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL; North German Lloyd) was a German shipping company. It was founded by Hermann Henrich Meier and Eduard Crüsemann in Bremen on 20 February 1857. It developed into one of the most important German shipping companies of th ...
shipping company.
''Scharnhorst'' belonged to a class of eleven steamers known as the ''Generals-class''. Her sisterships were the steamships ''Zieten'', ''Roon'', ''Seydlitz'', ''Gneisenau'', ''Bülow'', ''York'', ''Kleist'', ''Goeben'', ''Lützow'' and ''Derfflinger'', all built for the German Imperial Mail Service to Australia and the Far East. Occasionally these ships were run on the North Atlantic service of the Lloyd.
On 19 December 1908, ''Scharnhorst'' arrived in New York harbor, after having been delayed by inclement weather. Two passengers died on the trip, one killed by a wave that smashed him into the railing. Both passengers were buried the next day.
When the First World War started she had made 19 round trips to Australia, seven to the Far East and five to the USA. She was the only ship of her class to be in Germany in 1914 and was used for some time in 1917 and 1918 as a troop transport in the Baltic Sea
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The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from ...
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1919 she was seized by France and used from 1921 to 1931 in French service as ''La Bourdonnais''. In 1934 the ship was broken up in Genoa
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.
See also
* SS ''Scharnhorst'' (1934)References
Literature
*Edwin Drechsel: ''Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, 1857–1970; History, Fleet, Ship Mails, vol. 1''. Vancouver: Cordillera, 1995External links
SCHARNHORST (1904)/LA BOURDONNAIS [1921], at Palmer List of Merchant Vessels
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