The ship was built by the Bremer Vulkan , with the hull number 456 and under the name Alabama for the Argo shipping company . The ship was launched and put into service in 1903. In the following year the ship was sold to the Woermann Line and mainly operated on the Afrka Route. It was here that Alabama was renamed Eduard Woermann for the first time . When the First World War broke out , the ship was in the port of Rotterdam , but could be transferred to Hamburg in 1916 . In 1919 the ship was awarded to England and operated on the British Union-Castle Line .
In 1921 it was sold to the Norwegian shipping company TH Skogland and renamed Hanna Skogland . In 1930 J. Hoide bought the ship. The last name was changed to Modesta .
In 1933 the ship was demolished in Japan .
literature
Arnold Kludas : The ships of the German Africa Lines 1880 to 1945 . Verlag Gerhard Stalling, 1975, p. 55, ISBN 3-7979-1867-4 .
Arnold Kludas: The History of German Passenger Shipping 1850 to 1990 . Ernst Kabel Verlag, 1986ff, Vol. III: Leap growth 1900 to 1914 , p. 144, (1988).
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