Tuscania (ship, 1922)
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The Tuscania (II) was a 1922 posed in service passenger ship of the British shipping company Anchor Line , the passengers , mail and cargo on the North Atlantic route between Britain and the United States promoted. In April 1939, the ship was sold to the Greek shipping company General Steam Navigation Company of Greece and continued to operate on the North Atlantic route under the name Nea Hellas . Renamed New York in 1955 , the ship was laid up in Piraeus in 1959 and scrapped in Japan in 1961 .
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Construction of the 16,991 GRT steam turbine ship Tuscania began in 1919 at the Fairfield Shipbuilders yard in Govan near Glasgow . It was the successor to the first Tuscania (14,348 GRT) sunk by a German submarine in 1918 . On October 4, 1921, the 174.74 meter long and 21.42 meter wide ship was launched and on August 21, 1922 it was registered in Glasgow, the seat of the Anchor Line. The ocean liner with a single chimney, six steam turbines and two propellers had a passenger capacity of 267 passengers in the first, 377 in the second and 1818 in the third class.
On September 16, 1922, the Tuscania ran on her maiden voyage from Glasgow via Moville (Ireland) to New York . She stayed on this route until mid-1926, occasionally including Plymouth , Le Havre and Southampton . During the period, Tuscania also made five crossings from New York to the Mediterranean . In 1926 the ship was fully chartered to the Cunard Line , which had been managing the corporate capital of the Anchor Line since 1911. The train was rebuilt and modernized in 1926/27; so from February 1927 the passenger seats were measured with 206 passengers in the cabin class, 439 in the tourist class and 485 in the third class.
In October 1930 the Tuscania was temporarily launched in Glasgow until it returned to the Anchor Line the following year and in February 1931 drove for the first time from Glasgow via Liverpool to Bombay . By September 1938 she had completed 13 crossings to India, but continued to commute irregularly on the previous North Atlantic route from Glasgow or Southampton via Moville to New York.
Under the Greek flag
On April 19, 1939, the 17-year-old ship was sold to the newly founded Greek shipping company General Steam Navigation Company of Greece (Greek Line), whose first ship she was. Renamed Nea Hellas , registered in Andros and equipped with beds for 200 passengers in cabin class, 400 in tourist class and 500 in third class, the Nea Hellas set sail on May 19, 1939 for her first regular crossing from Piraeus to New York (the last one took place on May 11, 1940).
From June 8, 1940, she drove from Lisbon to New York. Due to the war situation, she often had many people on board on the western-bound crossings who fled the Nazi regime , often including prominent personalities. In autumn 1940 alone, the journalist Karl Hans Sailer and his wife Erna , the writer Franz Werfel and his wife Alma , Heinrich Mann , his wife Nelly and his nephew Golo , Wilhelm Ellenbogen , Otto Leichter , Alfred Polgar , Schiller Marmorek and Friderike Maria escaped Zweig with her daughters on board the steamer to the USA.
Between 1941 and 1946 the Nea Hellas served as a troop transport for the British Ministry of War Transport during World War II , until it was retired in 1947 and re-prepared for commercial passenger traffic in England and Genoa . With space for 300 passengers in First Class, 310 in Cabin Class and 850 in Tourist Class, the Nea Hellas set off on her first post-war voyage from Genoa via Naples and Lisbon to New York on July 25, 1947 . From September 1947 Piraeus was the starting point of these crossings and from January 1951 the port of Malta was also approached.
On March 24, 1955, the ship drove for the first time under the new name New York from New York via Boston to Cobh , Cherbourg and Southampton to Bremen and back via Halifax to New York. The last crossing of the ship took place in October 1959. It was launched in Piraeus on November 14, 1959 and sold to Onomichi in Japan for demolition , where it was scrapped in October 1961.