SS Vaterland (1940)

Model of how the completed Vaterland would have looked
History
Germany
Name	Vaterland
Namesake	German for "Fatherland"
Owner	(planned) HAPAG
Operator	(planned, 1940) Hamburg America Line (planned, 1941) Deutsche Amerika Linie
Port of registry	(planned) Hamburg
Route	(planned) Hamburg – Hoboken
Builder	Blohm+Voss, Hamburg
Laid down	1938
Launched	1940
Fate	damaged by air raid 1943, scrapped 1948
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner
Tonnage	36,000 GRT or 41,000 GRT
Length	251.16 m (824 ft 0 in)
Beam	30.00 m (98 ft 5 in)
Depth	12.78 m (41 ft 11 in)
Decks	5
Installed power	62,000 shp
Propulsion	steam turbines, turbo-electric transmission, 2 × screws
Speed	(planned) 24 knots (44 km/h)
Capacity	Passengers (planned): 354 × 1st class 435 × tourist class 533 × 3rd class

SS Vaterland was a transatlantic ocean liner that was launched for the Hamburg America Line in 1940 but left incomplete because of the Second World War. An Allied air raid damaged her in 1943, and she was scrapped in 1948.

She was the second Vaterland to be built for HAPAG. The first was launched in 1913, seized by the United States in 1917, renamed Leviathan, and used as a US troop ship and ocean liner.