SS Reliance

Reliance in HAPAG service in 1937, with her hull white and new funnels
History
Name	1914: Johann Heinrich Burchard 1920: Limburgia 1926: Reliance
Namesake	1914: Johann Heinrich Burchard 1920: Limburg
Owner	1915: HAPAG 1916: Kon. Hollandsche Lloyd 1922: United American Lines 1926: HAPAG
Port of registry	1920: Amsterdam 1922: 1923: Panama City 1926: Hamburg
Route	1920: Amsterdam – Buenos Aires 1922: Hamburg – New York
Builder	Joh. C. Tecklenborg, Geestemünde
Yard number	256
Launched	10 February 1914
Completed	20 November 1915
Maiden voyage	19 May 1920
Refit	1922, 1927, 1937
Identification	code letters RFVG (1926–33) call sign DHTV (1934–38)
Fate	Burned 1938, scrapped 1941
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner
Tonnage	1930: 19,821 GRT, 13,054 NRT 1937: 19,618 GRT, 9,175 NRT
Length	590.4 ft (180.0 m)
Beam	80.5 ft (24.5 m)
Depth	39.7 ft (12.1 m)
Decks	1
Propulsion	3 × screws 2 × triple-expansion engines 1 × exhaust steam turbine
Speed	17 knots (31 km/h)
Capacity	1915: 315 1st class, 301 2nd class, 850 3rd class, 850 steerage 1922: 290 1st class, 320 2nd class, 400 3rd class 1937: 633 1st class, 186 2nd class
Sensors and processing systems	by 1930: submarine signalling wireless direction finding by 1935: gyrocompass by 1936: echo sounding device
Notes	sister ship: Resolute

SS Reliance was one of a pair of transatlantic steam ocean liners that were launched in 1914 in Germany for the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG), sold to a Dutch shipping line in 1916, and seized by the United States as World War I reparations in 1922. United American Lines (UAL) operated her until 1926, when HAPAG bought her back.

Reliance was launched as Johann Heinrich Burchard. Her Dutch operator renamed her Limburgia. UAL renamed her Reliance. Her sister ship was Resolute.

A fire gutted Reliance in 1938, and her wreck was scrapped in 1941.