*service history

-	laid down	:	18-Jun-1927
-	built	:	Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau A.G. (Deschimag),	Bremen
-	launch	:	16-Aug-1928	No. 872
-	service	:	05-Jul-1929
-	commissioned by	:	Norddeutscher Lloyd	Hamburg-Amerika-Linie
-	maiden voyage	:	16-Jul-1929
-	blue riband	:	27.83 kn (16-Jul-1929)	Bremerhaven-New York
-	blue riband	:	27.91 kn (Jul 1929)	New York-Bremerhaven
-	blue riband	:	28.51 kn (Mar 1933)	Ambrose-Cherbourg
-	last voyage	:	10-Dec-1939	Murmask-Bremerhaven
-	used as	:	1940	navy housingship
-	catches fire	:	13-Mar-1941
-	sold for scrapping	:	16-Mar-1941

*ocean liner

-	displacement	:	51,656 gross tons	(	BRT)
-	anchors	:	3	(	15.7 t weight)
-	rudder	:	Oertz-rudder

*engines

-	shaft horsepower	:	85,000 shp	-	130,000 shp
-	speed	:	26.5 kn		max. 29.0 kn
-	turbine steam engines	:	4		producer : Deschim/Weser typ : 3-level gear-turbine
-	oil boiler	:	20	(	17,050 m2 heating area)
-	bronce screw	:	4	(	17.0 t weight)

*geometric measurements

-	overall length	:	938 ft	4 in	(	286,10 m)
-	waterline length	:	908 ft	10 in	(	277,00 m)
-	beam	:	102 ft		(	31,06 m)
-	draught	:	33 ft	11 in	(	10,33 m)
-	height keel-mean deck	:	79 ft	5 in	(	24,20 m)

*complements

-	first class	:	610	+	236
-	second class	:	500	+	15
-	tourist class	:	300
-	third class	:	617
-	officers and crew	:	966	-	1000

*lifeboats

-	lifeboats	:	22
	life saving capacity per boat	:	145
-	with wireless	:	2
-	rigged as accident boat	:	4

*post air plane

-	catapult start	:	1		typ : Heinkel K2 legth : 88 feet 7 in (27.00 m) payload : 3.500 kg start speed : 90 km/h
-	air plane	:	1		typ : Heinkel H12 (name: "New York") horsepower : 450 hp payload : 160 kg Post start speed : 190 km/h

/ back to the top of Ocean liners - BREMEN - 1929 /

* Wikipedia

•  SS Bremen - Ocean Liner
•  SS Bremen - artwork: cd51-1003g.gif

* bibliography

•  Arnold Kludas, Die Schnelldampfer BREMEN und EUROPA, Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 1993 -
•  Arnold Kludas, Die Seeschiffe des Norddeutschen Lloyd 1857 bis 1970, Bechtermünz Verlag, 1991 -
•   - , Der Ozean-Express Turbinenschnelldampfer "Bremen", Olms Presse, Hildesheim New York 1973 -
•  H.J.Rook, Die Jagd ums Blaue Band  - Reeder, Renner und Rekorde, Gondrom, transpress Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin 1991 -

* web sites

•  Norddeutscher Lloyd -
•  The story of the Bremen and the Europa -

 

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