SS Australien (1889)

SS Australien was a French passenger ship that was sunk during World War I on 19 July 1918 in the Mediterranean Sea 26 nautical miles (48 km) northeast of Cap Bon, Tunisia, by a torpedo fired by the Imperial German Navy submarine SM UC-54. Three of her 951 passengers and seventeen of her crew died in the sinking.[1][2][3]

History
Name: SS Australien
Owner: Messageries Maritimes, Marseille
Builder: Messageries Maritimes, La Ciotat
Yard number: 66
Launched: 1889
Fate: Sunk on 19 July 1918
General characteristics
Tonnage: 6,659 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 152.5 m (500 ft)
Beam: 15.1 m (50 ft)
Depth: 10.4 m (34 ft)
Installed power: 818 nhp
Propulsion:
  • 1 x 3 cylinder triple expansion steam engine
  • 12 x Belleville boilers
  • Single shaft
  • 1 x screw
Sail plan: 3-masted barque rigged
Speed: 17.5 kn (20.1 mph)

See also

References
  1. SS Australien (+1918). Wreck Site. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  2. "Australien". Uboat.net. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
  3. "French liners sunk". The Times (41868). London. 14 August 1918. col B, p. 6.
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