SS Corcovado

Corcovado
History
Name	1908: Corcovado 1917: Sueh 1919: Corcovado 1920: Guglielmo Peirce 1927: Maria Cristina 1930: Mouzinho
Namesake	1908: Corcovado
Owner	1908: Hamburg America Line 1919: French Government 1920: Soc Sicula Americana 1927: Lloyd Sabaudo 1930: Cia Colonial de Nav
Operator	1914: Imperial German Navy 1917: Ottoman government 1926: Cosulich Line
Port of registry	1908: Hamburg 1920: Naples 1930: Luanda
Route	1908: Hamburg – Rio de Janeiro 1910: Hamburg – Buenos Aires 1912: Hamburg – New York 1914: Odesa – New York 1920: Naples – New York 1926: Italy – Buenos Aires 1927: Genoa – Buenos Aires 1928: Genoa – Brisbane 1930: Lisbon – Beira
Builder	F Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel
Yard number	133
Launched	21 December 1907
Completed	1 April 1908
Identification	1908: code letters RPVG call sign DRC 1920: code letters NTCG 1930: code letters LDBJ 1934: call sign CSDW
Fate	scrapped 1954
General characteristics
Type	cargo liner
Tonnage	7,976 GRT, 4,951 NRT
Length	448.3 ft (136.6 m)
Beam	55.2 ft (16.8 m)
Draught	25 ft 11 in (7.90 m)
Depth	28.1 ft (8.6 m)
Decks	2
Installed power	592 NHP, 4,000 ihp
Propulsion	2 × quadruple-expansion engines 2 × screws
Speed	13+1⁄2 knots (25 km/h)
Capacity	passengers: 1908: 140 × 1st class, 110 × 2nd class, 1,100 × steerage 1928: 56 × 1st class, 943 × steerage
Crew	136
Sensors and processing systems	by 1911: submarine signalling by 1924: wireless direction finding
Notes	sister ship: Ypiranga

SS Corcovado was a cargo liner that was launched in Germany in 1907 for the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). In 1917 she was transferred to the Ottoman government and renamed Sueh. In 1919 the Ottomans surrendered her to France, and her name reverted to Corcovado. In 1920 the Società Sicula Americana bought her and renamed her Guglielmo Peirce. In 1927 Lloyd Sabaudo bought her and renamed her Maria Cristina. In 1930 the Companhia Colonial de Navegação (CCN) bought her and renamed her Mouzinho. She was scrapped in Italy in 1954.

In her HAPAG career Corcovado served various transatlantic routes between Europe and both South and North America. In the First World War she was the barracks ship Sueh in Turkey and a troopship in the Black Sea. As Guglielmo Peirce she took European emigrants from Italy to both South and North America. As Maria Cristina she took European emigrants from Italy to Australia.

The longest part of her career was with CCN as Mouzinho. Her regular route linked Portugal with its colonies in Africa. In 1941 she made two voyages from Portugal to the US, on which she carried a total of 1,346 refugees, many of them Jewish, who had escaped from German-occupied Europe.