SS Stettin (1886)

The steamship Stettin was a German cargo vessel launched in 1886 built by AG Vulcan Stettin and operated by Norddeutscher Lloyd.[1]

History
German Empire
Name: SS Stettin
Operator: Norddeutscher Lloyd
Builder: AG Vulcan Stettin[1]
Launched: 1886[1]
Fate: Sold to Japan, 1903
Japan
Name: Loong Yue
Operator: Showa Kosen Gyogyo KK
Port of registry:  Tokyo[1]
Renamed: Ryuyu Maru
Fate: Scapped 1931[1]
General characteristics
Tonnage: 2,178 GRT[1]
Length: 316.0 m (1,036 ft 9 in)[1]
Beam: 35.4 m (116 ft 2 in)[1]
Depth: 24.5 m (80 ft 5 in)[1]

In March 1899, Stettin assisted the German unprotected cruiser SMS Cormoran, which had run aground off New Pomerania.[2]

Stettin was later renamed Loong Yue and then finally was acquired by Showa Kosen Gyogyo KK and rename Ryuyu Maru before ultimately being broken up for scrap in 1931.

Notes
  1. "LLOYD'S REGISTER, STEAMERS & MOTORSHIPS 1930-31" (PDF). Plimsoll Ship Data. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  2. Hildebrand, Röhr, & Steinmetz, p. 194

References
  • Hildebrand, Hans H.; Röhr, Albert; Steinmetz, Hans-Otto (1993). Die Deutschen Kriegsschiffe. 2. Ratingen: Mundus Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8364-9743-5.
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