Prince Ludwig (ship)
Prince Ludwig 
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| Launch : | May 12, 1906 | |
| Commissioning: | August 9, 1906 | |
| Builder: | AG Vulcan Szczecin | |
| Build number: | 265 | |
| Building-costs: | 4.880 million marks | |
| similar: | Prince Eitel Friedrich (1904) | |
| Passengers: | 113 1st class, 128 2nd class, 58 3rd class, 395 seats possible in the intermediate deck |
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| Crew: | 238 men | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Measurement: | 9,630 GRT | |
| Load capacity: | 9,750 dw | |
| Length over all: | 155.20 m | |
| Width: | 17.60 m | |
| Draft : | 10.70 m | |
| Machinery: | 2 quadruple expansion steam engines | |
| Number of screws: | 2 | |
| Power: | 7,000 PSi | |
| Top speed: | 15.5 kn | |
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demolished in 1925 |
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The Reichspostdampfer Prinz Ludwig (1906) was built by the Stettiner Vulcan for the mixed passenger and freight service of the North German Lloyd (NDL), Bremen, on the Reichspostdampferlinie to East Asia. He replaced ships of the Barbarossa class there with the very similar Prinz Eitel Friedrich . Both ships were similar in structure to the ships of the Feldherren class , but were somewhat longer two-chimney ships with two masts.
Use at the NDL
The Prinz Ludwig started her maiden voyage from Bremerhaven to Japan on August 16, 1906 . She is not known to have been deployed under the German flag on any other line. Together with the very similar Prinz Eitel Friedrich and the Princess Alice of the Barbarossa class, she was mainly used as a passenger ship alongside ships of the general class until 1914 on the Reichspoststampferlinie of the NDL to East Asia.
When the war broke out, she was at home. Although, like Prince Eitel Friedrich, she was certainly prepared for a mission as an auxiliary cruiser , no concrete plans for such a mission are known. She remained a trailer in Bremerhaven for the duration of the war.
On March 27, 1919, she was extradited to Great Britain. It was used to transport Australian troops home from Europe and the Middle East.
In 1921 she came into service after overhaul for the Orient Steam Navigation Company (Orient Line) as Orcades for 599 passengers on the route from Great Britain to Australia. She was decommissioned on September 20, 1924. In 1925 it was demolished in Bremerhaven.
literature
- Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping 1850 to 1990 . Ernst Kabel Verlag, 1986.
- Arnold Kludas: The ships of the North German Lloyd 1857 to 1919 . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 1991, ISBN 3-7822-0524-3 .
- Christine Reinke-Kunze: History of the Reichspostdampfer. Connection between the continents 1886–1914 . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 1994, ISBN 3-7822-0618-5 (3782206185).