SS Cleveland

Cleveland in Hong Kong, 1909.
History
Name	1908: Cleveland 1919: Mobile 1920: King Alexander 1923: Cleveland
Namesake	1908, 1923: Cleveland 1919: Mobile 1920: Alexander of Greece
Owner	1908: HAPAG 1919: United States Navy 1919: US Shipping Board 1920: Byron Steamship Co 1923: United American Lines 1926: HAPAG
Port of registry	1908: Hamburg 1919: 1920: London 1923: Panama City 1926: Hamburg
Route	1909: Hamburg – New York 1913: Hamburg – Boston 1920: Greece – United States 1923: Hamburg – New York
Builder	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
Launched	26 September 1908
Maiden voyage	27 March 1909
Identification	by 1913: wireless call sign DDV early 1919: code letters GJBP late 1919: code letters NIVB 1920: UK official number 144470 1920: code letters KDRF 1926: code letters RFVB
Fate	Scrapped 1933
General characteristics
Tonnage	16,970 GRT, 10,145 NRT
Displacement	27,000 tons
Length	588.9 ft (179.5 m)
Beam	65.3 ft (19.9 m)
Draught	50 ft 0 in (15.24 m)
Depth	46.6 ft (14.2 m)
Decks	3
Installed power	by 1930: 2,046 NHP
Propulsion	as built: 2 × screws, 2 × quadruple expansion engines from 1929: as above plus 2 × exhaust steam turbines
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h)
Capacity	passengers, 1908: 246 first class 332 second class 448 third class 1,801 steerage class troops, 1919: 4,620 refrigerated cargo: 29,577 cubic feet (838 m3)
Crew	1919: 573
Sensors and processing systems	by 1930: wireless direction finding submarine signalling
Notes	sister ship: Cincinnati

SS Cleveland was a German transatlantic ocean liner that was launched in 1908 and scrapped in 1933. Cleveland was built for the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) as a sister ship for Cincinnati.

In 1919 Cleveland became the troop ship USS Mobile (ID-4030). In 1920 it returned to civilian service as the UK liner King Alexander. In 1923 United American Lines bought her and restored it original name Cleveland.

In 1926 HAPAG bought Cleveland back. It was laid up from 1931 and scrapped in 1933.