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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=German Empire | German Empire|civil}} | Ship name= Blücher | Ship namesake=Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher | Ship owner=Hamburg America Line | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route=*Hamburg–New York (1901–1911)- Hamburg–South America (1911–1914)
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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header=title | Ship country=Brazil | Brazil|government}} | Ship name= Leopoldina | Ship namesake= | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship acquired=By seizure, 1 June 1917 | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship nickname= | Ship fate=Sold to France, 27 February 1918 | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header=title | Ship country=France | France|civil}} | Ship name= Suffren | Ship namesake= Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez | Ship owner= Compagnie Générale Transatlantique | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route=Havre - New York | Ship acquired=*By charter, 11 March 1920 | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service=September 1928 | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit=December 1920 | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship nickname= | Ship fate=Scrapped at Genoa, 1929 | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=[1] | Barbarossa|ocean liner}} | Ship type= | 12,334}} | Ship displacement= | 525|ft|6|in|abbr=on}} | 62|ft|3|in|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | Ship draught= | Ship draft= | Ship depth= | Ship hold depth= | Ship decks= | Ship deck clearance= | Ship ramps= | Ship ice class= | Ship power= | Ship propulsion=* 2 × quadruple expansion steam engines | 16|kn|lk=in}} | Ship endurance= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity=* Passengers (as built):- 390 × 1st class
- 230 × 2nd class
- 1,550 × 3rd class
- After 1920 refit
- 500 × cabin class
- 250 × 3rd class
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}} | SS Blücher was a {{Sclass-|Barbarossa|ocean liner}} built by Blohm & Voss Shipbuilders, Hamburg, Germany, in 1902 for the Hamburg America Line, to sail under German flag. She displaced 12,334 gross tons and was 550 (bp) feet long by 62 feet wide. Steam quadruple-expansion engines powered twin screws. Her service speed was 16 knots. She originally carried 2,102 passengers, including 333 first class, 169 second class, and 1,600 third class, on four decks with a steel hull, and was served by a crew of 252. She was fitted with two masts and two funnels. She saw Hamburg-New York and Hamburg-South America service. HistoryThe Blücher was launched on November 23, 1901. She set out on her maiden voyage on June 7, 1902, proceeding from Hamburg to Boulogne to Southampton, then finally to New York, where she arrived at Ellis Island on June 28. She serviced this route until 1911. In 1912, she was rebuilt, with luxury suites added to her boat deck. She was interned at Pernambuco, Brazil in August 1914. On June 1, 1917, she was seized by the Brazilian government, who renamed her Leopoldina. On February 27, 1918, she was chartered to the French government. On March 11, 1920, she began her first voyage for Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT, "French Line") from New York to Le Havre. In December 1921, she was laid up. In March 1923, she was sold to CGT and renamed Suffren, as which on May 8, 1923, she made her first voyage, Le Havre to New York. At this time, she could accommodate 500 passengers in first class and 250 in third class. She was laid up again in 1928 and scrapped in Genoa in 1929. References1. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/ShipsB.shtml |title=Ship Descriptions (B) |first1=S. |last1=Swiggum |first2=M. |last2=Kohli |work=theshipslist.com |year=2014 |accessdate=9 June 2014}}
External links- {{cite web |url= http://www.gjenvick.com/HistoricalBrochures/Steamships-OceanLiners/HamburgAmericanLine/BookOfPhotographs/NorthlandTrips/1908/SS-Blucher.html |title=SS Blücher (1902) Photographs |work=gjenvick.com |year=2014 }}
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