SS Stettin (1886)

History

Name:	SS Stettin
Operator:	Norddeutscher Lloyd
Builder:	AG Vulcan Stettin^[1]
Launched:	1886^[1]
History
Name:	Loong Yue
History
Name:	Ryuyu Maru
Operator:	Showa Kosen Gyogyo KK
Port of registry:	Tokyo^[1]
Fate:	Scapped 1931^[1]
General characteristics
Tonnage:	2,178 GT^[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]

The steamship Stettin was a German cargo vessel launched in 1886 built by AG Vulcan Stettin and operated by Norddeutscher Lloyd.^[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 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "LLOYD'S REGISTER, STEAMERS & MOTORSHIPS 1930-31" (PDF). Plimsoll Ship Data. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
↑ 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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