SS Silesia

Several steamships have been named Silesia after the province of Schlesien

  • SS Silesia (1869) was a 3142-ton passenger-cargo ship of Hamburg America Line, in service until 1887
  • SS Silesia (1897) was a 4861-ton passenger-cargo ship in service with Hamburg America Line 1898-1918, built as Wally.[1] She was briefly aground off Pusan, Korea, in 1912.[2]
  • SS Silesia (1898) was a 5159-ton passenger-cargo ship built for Lloyd Austriaco; sequestered by the Italian government in 1920 and claimed as a war prize by the Chinese government.[3]
  • SS Silesia (1923) was a 1899-ton Swedish cargo vessel sunk by the German submarine U-36 off the Norwegian coast near Stavanger on 25 November 1939.[4][5]

See also

References
  1. "Silesia (5601047)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 2021-12-27.
  2. "Shipping Intelligence". The Standard. No. 27, 502. London. 3 August 1912. p. 3. Retrieved 27 December 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. "F 1609/10/20 Seizure at Trieste of Austrian ship condemned in Shanghai Prize Court" (PDF). Confidential British Foreign Office Correspondence. Foreign and Commonwealth Office. p. 38. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04.
  4. "SS Silesia (+1939)". WreckSite. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
  5. Fairplay: Weekly Shipping Journal. London: Fairplay Publications (152): 472. 1939. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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