SS Hamburg (1926)
For other ships of the same name, see SS Hamburg and SS Hamburg (1969).
 Yuri Dolgoruki | |
| Career (Germany) | .svg.png){kind=small} |
|---|---|
| Name: | SS Hamburg |
| Owner: | Hamburg America Line |
| Route: | Hamburg–New York City |
| Builder: | Blohm & Voss Shipbuilders, Hamburg, Germany |
| Launched: | 1926 |
| Career (Germany) |  |
| Name: | Hamburg |
| Commissioned: | 1940 |
| Fate: | Sunk by mine, 7 March 1945 |
| Career (USSR) |  |
| Name: | Yuri Dolgoruki |
| Acquired: | by salvage, 1950 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1977 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Ocean liner |
| Tonnage: | 21,132 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length: | 635 ft (194 m) |
| Beam: | 72 ft (22 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam turbines, twin screws |
| Speed: | 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) |
| Capacity: | 222 first class passengers 471 second class 456 third class |
SS Hamburg was a German ocean liner owned by the Hamburg America Line, built by the Blohm & 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 German Navy (Kriegsmarine) in 1940. On 7 March 1945 during the evacuation of Germans from the Eastern Front, she struck a mine and sank. 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 mother ship for whaling vessels. She was then scrapped in 1977.