For other ships with the same name, see MV Spreewald.
British-built steamship
The ship as Spreewald
History
Name
1908: Spreewald
1915: Lucia
1948: Sinai
Namesake
1908: Spreewald
1915: Saint Lucia
1948: Sinai
Owner
1908: Hamburg America Line
1914: Admiralty
1948: Cia Maritima Geojunior
Operator
1914: Elder Dempster Lines
1916: Royal Navy
1948: Till & Co
Port of registry
1908: Hamburg
1915: London
1948: Panama
Route
1913: Hamburg – Caribbean
Builder
Furness, Withy, Middleton
Yard number
307
Launched
21 November 1907
Completed
September 1908
Identification
1908: code letters RPWS
1914: call sign DSO
1915: UK official number 136789
1915: code letters JKFV
1916: pennant number F27
1918: pennant number P.2A
Fate
scrapped May 1951
General characteristics
Type
1908: passenger and cargo ship
1916: submarine depôt ship
1948: cargo ship
Tonnage
3,899 GRT, 2,414 NRT
Length
352.0 ft (107.3 m)
Beam
45.0 ft (13.7 m)
Depth
26.0 ft (7.9 m)
Decks
2
Installed power
359 NHP
Propulsion
1 × triple-expansion engine
1 × screw
Speed
12+3⁄4 knots (24 km/h)
Complement
in Royal Navy: 245
Notes
sister ships: Westerwald, Frankenwald
HMS Lucia was a steamship that was launched in England in 1907 as the passenger and cargo ship Spreewald for Hamburg America Line (HAPAG)'s Caribbean services. The Royal Navy captured her in 1914, and renamed her Lucia. Elder Dempster Lines managed her until 1916, when she was converted into the submarine depôt ship HMS Lucia.
HMS Lucia served in home waters in the First World War, and in Malta and home waters between the wars. In the Second World War she served in the Indian Ocean, and in 1942 she was damaged in a Japanese air attack in Ceylon. Later in the war she was a repair ship for surface ships.
In 1946 Lucia was sold back into merchant service. By 1948 she had been converted into a cargo ship, renamed Sinai, and registered in Panama. She was scrapped in Italy in 1951.
This was the first of three HAPAG ships that were named after the Spreewald district of Lusatia. The second Spreewald was a motor ship that was completed in 1923 and sank in 1942.[1] The third was a motor ship that was completed in 1951 and scrapped in 1979.[2]
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