SS Hamburg (1926)

The SS "Hamburg" was a German ocean liner owned by the Hamburg-America Line, built by the Blohm and Voss Shipbuilders of Hamburg, Germany and launched in 1926. She had a sister ship the "New York". They were similar to the SS|Albert Ballin. She became a naval accommodation ship for the Nazis in 1940. On March 7, 1945 during the evacuation of the forces from the Eastern Front, she struck a mine and sunk. She was then salvaged by the Soviets in 1950. She was intended to become a passenger ship, the "Yuri Dolgoruki" she was instead finished in 1960 as a whaling mother ship, she was then scrapped in 1977.