Karlsruhe (ship, 1889)
 A steamship of the NDL city class
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The steamer Karlsruhe , also written as Carlsruhe , served the North German Lloyd ( Bremen ) as an emigration ship from 1889 to 1908 .
General
The Karlsruhe was in Glasgow at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company as a steamer of the cities-class built for the North German Lloyd and had on Saturday, August 31, 1889, its launch . The Karlsruhe, which was delivered in October 1889, was, like all the following ships, slightly larger than the first two steamers Dresden and Munich . Her other sister ships were the Stuttgart , Darmstadt , Gera , Oldenburg and Weimar .
On May 25, 1908, the Karlsruhe was sold to the company Neugebauer & Co. for scrapping and scrapped in Lemwerder .
Technical specifications
The passenger steamer had two masts and a chimney and was 13 knots with one screw and a tonnage of 5,347 GRT . The ship was 131.6 meters long and 14.5 meters wide.
44 passengers could be accommodated in first class, 36 in second and 1,955 passengers in third class.
Rides
South America
On November 10, 1889, she made her maiden voyage from Bremen to the Río de la Plata ( Montevideo and Buenos Aires ). On September 22, 1906, she began her third and final round trip to South America.
North America
On February 13, 1890, she started her first crossing from Bremen to North America ( New York and Baltimore ). On December 8, 1902, the Karlsruhe departed for the 37th and final round trip to the USA.
Australia
On September 28, 1892, the Karlsruhe set sail for the first time from Bremen and on September 30 from Bremerhaven for the first Australia voyage via Antwerp , Southampton , Strait of Gibraltar , Genoa , Port Said , Suez Canal , Red Sea , Aden , Colombo and Adelaide to Melbourne , where the steamer arrived on November 16, 1892 after a six-week voyage. On May 16, 1906, she started her nineteenth and last trip on the Reichspostdampferlinie to Australia. She was the most frequently used ship of the class on this route.
Asia
On January 31, 1894, the first of a total of seven deployments took place on the imperial post steamer line from Bremerhaven to East Asia ( Shanghai ).