The España class was a series of three steamers operated by the Hamburg Süd shipping company . The trio of ships was commissioned as early as 1917, but construction was delayed by the events of the war until the beginning of the 1920s. In 1927 all three ships were equipped with exhaust steam turbines, which increased their output by around 800 hp, and in 1936 the facilities for tween deck passengers were expanded. Two units were sunk in World War II, while the type ship existed until 1974.
The ships
Building name
Shipyard / construction number
IMO number
Launch
delivery
Renaming and whereabouts
España
Howaldtswerke, Hamburg / 605
?
October 15, 1921
January 1922
Handed over to Great Britain on May 10, 1945 in Sandefjord, on May 10, 1946 as General Bagration to the Soviet Union, 1973 Fuji Maru No. 5 but not in motion, arrived in Kaohsiung on January 3, 1974 in tow for demolition
La Coruña
Reiherstieg shipyard, Hamburg / 508
no
September 16, 1921
January 1922
left Rio de Janeiro on February 9, 1940, landed on March 13 east of Iceland by British auxiliary cruiser Maloja and sunk herself
Vigo
Howaldtswerke, Hamburg / 606
no
January 22, 1922
April 1922
Taken over from the Kriegsmarine on September 28, 1939 as Sperrbrecher X , 30 July 1941 Sperrbrecher 10 , sunk by a mine off Norderney on March 7, 1944
literature
Arnold Kludas: The ships of Hamburg-Süd 1871-1951 . 1st edition. Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg and Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-7979-1875-5 .
Claus Rothe: German passenger liners of the 20th century . 1st edition. Koaehlers Verlagsagesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-7822-0690-8 , p.81-82 .
