SS Ypiranga

Official HAPAG postcard for Ypiranga
History
Name	1908: Ypiranga 1921: Assyria 1929: Colonial 1950: BISCO 9
Namesake	1921: Assyria
Owner	1908: Hamburg America Line 1919: Shipping Controller 1921: Anchor Line 1929: Cia Colonial de Nav 1950: British Iron & Steel Corp
Operator	1919: White Star Line 1921: Henderson Bros
Port of registry	1908: Hamburg 1919: London 1921: Glasgow 1929: Luanda
Route	1908: Hamburg – Rio de Janeiro 1910: Hamburg – Buenos Aires 1911: Hamburg – Vera Cruz 1925: Glasgow – Bombay 1929: Lisbon – Beira
Builder	F Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel
Yard number	134
Launched	13 May 1908
Refit	1921, 1929
Identification	1908: code letters RPWN 1913: call sign DYA 1919: UK official number 143166 1919: code letters JWKC 1929: code letters LDBM 1934: call sign CSCW
Fate	scrapped 1950
General characteristics
Type	cargo liner
Tonnage	1911: 8,103 GRT, 4,907 NRT 1921: 8,142 GRT, 4,949 NRT 1930: 8,308 GRT, 5,218 NRT
Displacement	12,600 tons
Length	447.0 ft (136.2 m)
Beam	55.1 ft (16.8 m)
Depth	27.8 ft (8.5 m)
Decks	2
Installed power	332 NHP, 4,000 ihp
Propulsion	2 × quadruple-expansion engines 2 × screws
Speed	13+1⁄2 knots (25 km/h)
Capacity	1908: 136 × 1st class; 126 × 2nd class; 1,050 × steerage 1921: 241 × cabin class; 140 × 3rd class 1929: 109 × 1st class; 81 × 2nd class; 239 × 3rd class
Crew	154
Sensors and processing systems	by 1911: submarine signalling
Notes	sister ship: Corcovado

SS Ypiranga was a cargo liner that was launched in Germany in 1908 for the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). In 1919 the United Kingdom seized her for World War I reparations. In 1921 Anchor Line acquired her and renamed her Assyria. In 1929 the Companhia Colonial de Navegação (CCN) bought her and renamed her Colonial. In 1950 she was sold for scrap, but she sank off the coast of Scotland while being towed to a scrapyard.

Ypiranga was built for HAPAG's route between Hamburg and Brazil, but in 1911 was transferred to the company's route to Mexico. There she became involved in the politics of the Mexican Revolution, first taking President Porfirio Díaz into exile in 1911, and then gun-running in 1914 in the Ypiranga incident.