The Bahia class was a series of four steamers operated by the Hamburg Süd shipping company . The quartet of ships was the last series built for the shipping company before the First World War . The combined ships had extensive facilities for second-class and tween deck passengers, which vary in size from ship to ship. All four units survived the First World War, two ships were scrapped in the 1930s, one sank and the type ship was finally sunk in 1940.
Launched in Buenos Aires on August 16, 1914, bought by Argentina on April 16, 1918, Umbria in 1935, sunk in Port Sudan in June 1940, later lifted and scrapped
Buenos Aires
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April 2, 1912
May 10, 1912
Delivered to France on June 20, 1919, rebuilt passenger facilities in 1922, sold to Hughes Bolckow in Blyth for demolition in January 1936
Delivered to the shipping controller on May 22, 1919 , bought to Hugo Stinnes in September 1922, renamed General Belgrano and converted passenger facilities, sold to HAPAG on November 24, 1926, demolished on December 20, 1932 via the Reederei-Treuhand-Gesellschaft sold to the German shipyard
Bahia Laura
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April 29, 1913
June 21, 1913
Laid up in Pernambuco on August 1, 1914, confiscated by Brazil on June 1, 1917 and renamed Caxias , in 1923 to Lloyd Brasileiro Ruy Barbosa , stranded and sunk near Leixöes on July 31, 1934
The Bahia Blanca of Hamburg-Süd, 1920 as an Argentine transporter
