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Wednesday, 28 February 2024

German steam yacht SMS Loreley 1885-1918 (1926)

Source Bundesarchive RM 3/22928 French photo album 1900

Steam yacht, building ordered in 1884, launched by D. and W. Henderson and Company, Glasgow, Scotland as Mohican on 1 June 1885, purchased by Germany in 1896, commissioned on 6 August 1896, usually stationed at Constantinople, Turkey for diplomatic purposes, decommissioned on 2 November 1918, sold to a private owner in Turkey and lost during a voyage in the Black Sea in 1926. 

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