MS Gotenland

Gotenland
History
Name	1942: Gotenland 1945: Hopeville 1967: Oinoussian Hope 1968: Esperanza
Owner	1942: Kriegsmarine 1945: Skibs-A/S Steinstad 1957: Skibs-A/S Siljestad 1967: Argyros Cia SA
Operator	1942: Norddeutscher Lloyd 1945: A. F. Klaveness & Co 1967: Panagiotis A Lemos & Co Ltd
Port of registry	1942: 1945: Oslo 1967: Piraeus
Builder	Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen
Laid down	1940
Completed	November 1942
Identification	1945: call sign LLNZ
Fate	scrapped 1970
General characteristics
Type	cargo ship
Tonnage	5,312 GRT, 3,184 NRT, 8,800 DWT
Length	440.0 ft (134.1 m) overall 424.7 ft (129.4 m) registered
Beam	56.4 ft (17.2 m)
Depth	26.3 ft (8.0 m)
Decks	2
Propulsion	1 × 9-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine 1 × screw
Speed	13+1⁄2 knots (25 km/h)
Sensors and processing systems	by 1947: wireless direction finding; echo sounding device; gyrocompass by 1959: radar

MS Gotenland was a cargo motor ship that was built in Denmark during the Second World War and scrapped in China in 1970. Her first operator was the German Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) line. In 1945 she passed to Norwegian ownership and was renamed Hopeville. In 1967 she was acquired by Greek owners, who at first renamed her Oinoussian Hope, and then changed her name to Esperanza.

In 1943 Germany used Gotenland to deport 158 Jews from Norway to Germany. Only six or seven of the deportees survived the war.