SS Prinzess Irene
She was launched as Prinzess Irene on 19 June 1900 by Aktiengesellschaft Vulkan, Stettin, Germany for North German Lloyd Lines.On 9 September 1900 she startet her maiden voyage to New York. On 30 October 1900 she made her first out of seven runs on the German Empire mail run to the Far East up to Yokohama, the route she was built for. On 30 April 1903 she went to the Genoa - Naples - New York run and stayed mainly on this service together with her sistership SS König Albert and sometimes other ships of the Barbarossa class ocean liners. In 1911 under Captain Frederic von Letten-Peterssen she was stranded for eighty-three hours on Fire Island sandbars.
Her last voyage was to New York on 9 July 1914. Due to British Royal Navy control of the seas she was caught in New York at the outbreak of World War I and remained there from August 1914, until finally seized by the United States with the issuance of Executive Order 2651 on 30 June 1917 under the authority prescribed within the Enemy Vessel Confiscation Joint Resolution of 12 May 1917.
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