Ship History
The ship was built at the Barclay Curle shipyard in Glasgow, Scotland, for the Dampfschiffs-Reederei Hansa ("Hansa Steamship Company", not to be confused with the Hansa Line), and was launched on 13 November 1890 under the name SS Pickhuben. She sailed from Hamburg on 15 April 1891 for her maiden voyage to Quebec and Montreal. In March 1892 DRH was taken over by the Hamburg America Line, but the Pickhuben continued to sail between Hamburg and New York City or Montreal. She was renamed SS Georgia in 1895, and sailed between the then German port of Stettin and New York, transferring to a route between Genoa in northern Italy and New York in 1900. From 1902 she sailed between the Russian Black Sea port of Odessa and New York.
On the outbreak of World War I in 1914 Georgia was interned in the then neutral United States. On 16 April 1915, she was sold for $85,000 to the Housatonic Steamship Corporation, and was used as a freighter. On 23 February 1916, the ship was chartered by Brown, Jenkinson & Company of London, "for the term of the present war".
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