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MV Wilhelm Gustloff
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German military transport ship; built as a cruise ship
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It sits within the topics 1937 ships, 1945 in Germany and Cruise ships of Germany.
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Key facts
- Name
- Wilhelm Gustloff
- Namesake
- Wilhelm Gustloff
- Owner
- German Labour Front ( Deutsche Arbeitsfront )
- Operator
- Hamburg Süd
- Port of registry
- Hamburg , Germany
- Builder
- Blohm & Voss
- Cost
- 25 million ℛ ︁ ℳ ︁
- Laid down
- 1 August 1936
- Launched
- 5 May 1937
- Completed
- 15 March 1938
- Maiden voyage
- 24 March 1938
- In service
- 1938–1939
- Out of service
- 1 September 1939
- Identification
- Radio ID (DJVZ)
- Fate
- Requisitioned into the Kriegsmarine on 1 September 1939
- Acquired
- 1 September 1939
- Notes
- Converted to floating barracks beginning 20 November 1940, including repainting from hospital ship colours to standard navy grey
- Class type
- Cruise ship
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- armed merchantman
- Named after
- Wilhelm Gustloff
- Owned by
- German Labor Front
- Operator
- Kriegsmarine
- Manufacturer
- Blohm+Voss
- Conflict
- World War II
- Image
- Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H27992, Lazarettschiff "Wilhelm Gustloff" in Danzig.jpg
- Width
- 23.59
- Length
- 208.5
- Speed
- 15.5
- Significant event
- keel laying
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- yard number
- 511
- native label
- Wilhelm Gustloff
- location of creation
- Hamburg
- different from
- Wilhelm Gustloff
- Commons category
- Wilhelm Gustloff (ship, 1938)
- draft
- 7.0
- call sign
- DJVZ
- beam
- 23.5
- maximum capacity
- 1463
- country of registry
- Germany
- service entry
- 1938-03-15
- cruise speed
- 16.5
- port of registry
- Hamburg
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Encyclopedic overview
MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship, sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea while evacuating civilians and military personnel from East Prussia and the German-occupied Baltic states, and German military personnel from Gotenhafen (Gdynia), as the Red Army advanced. By one estimate, 9,343 people died, making its sinking the deadliest maritime disaster in modern history.
Originally constructed as a cruise ship for the Nazi Strength Through Joy (Kraft durch Freude) organization in 1937, Wilhelm Gustloff was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine (German navy) in 1939. She served as a hospital ship from 1939 to 1940, and then as a floating barracks for naval personnel in Gotenhafen until 1945, when she was fitted with anti-aircraft guns and used to transport evacuees.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “MV Wilhelm Gustloff” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.