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Friday, 5 January 2024

German auxiliary cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm 1901-1917 and American Von Steuben 1917-1923

Source Bundesarchive RM 3/22928 French photo album 1900

Call sign MDTW. Passenger ship launched at AG Vulcan, Stettin, Germany with yard number 522 on 30 March 1901, commissioned on 17 September 1901, auxiliary cruiser since August 1914, interned at Portsmouth, Virginia, USA since April 1915, seized by the USA on 6 April 1917, US troop transport Von Steuben since 1917 and sold to be broken up in 1923. 

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