An
item referred to the newspaper Manchester Guardian which received tidings from Copenhagen that the Prins Friederich Wilhelm (1) of the
Norddeutsche Lloyd now converted into an auxiliary cruiser returned at Bergen coming from back from the North
Sea with 400 tourists on board. The Norwegian cabinet considered
to seize her. On board was the Italian ambassador in Paris, France.
Note
1.
This must be the Kronprinz Wilhelm, launched on 30 March 1901 at the shipyard
AG Vulkan, Stettin, Germany as a passenger ship and which begun her maiden
voyage on 17 September 1901.
In August 1914 commissioned in the Imperial German navy
as an auxiliary cruiser. Interned in April 1915 at Portsmouth,
Virginia, USA
and was finally seized by the US
government on 6 April 1917. She was renamed on 9 June USS Von Steuben (ID-3017)
and served as a transport until she was decommissioned on 13 October 1819m
stricken a day alter and broken p in 1923.Her armament as a auxiliary cruiser
consisted of 2-12cm/4.7” guns, 2-8,8cm/4.5” guns and 1 machinegun.
