SS Silesia

Several steamships have been named Silesia after the province of Schlesien

• SS Silesia (1869) was a 3142-ton passenger-cargo ship of Hamburg America Line, in service until 1887
• SS Silesia (1897) was a 4861-ton passenger-cargo ship in service with Hamburg America Line 1898–1918, built as Wally.^[1] She was briefly aground off Pusan, Korea, in 1912.^[2]
• SS Silesia (1898) was a 5159-ton passenger-cargo ship built for Lloyd Austriaco; sequestered by the Italian government in 1920 and claimed as a war prize by the Chinese government.^[3]
• SS Silesia (1923) was a 1899-ton Swedish cargo vessel sunk by the off the Norwegian coast near Stavanger on 25 November 1939.^[4]

See also

• SMS Schlesien, German pre-dreadnought battleship

References

1. ^ 5601047. Retrieved 2021-12-27.
2. ^ "Shipping Intelligence". The Standard. No. 27,502. 3 August 1912. p. 3. Retrieved 27 December 2021. – via British Newspaper Archive.
3. ^ "F 1609/10/20 Seizure at Trieste of Austrian ship condemned in Shanghai Prize Court". Confidential British Foreign Office Correspondence. Foreign and Commonwealth Office. p. 38. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
4. ^ "SS Silesia (+1939)". WreckSite. Retrieved 28 June 2011.