SS Australien (1889)

SS Australien was a French passenger ship that was sunk during World War I on 19 July 1918 in the Mediterranean Sea 26 nautical miles (48 km) northeast of Cap Bon, Tunisia, by a torpedo fired by the Imperial German Navy submarine SM UC-54. Three of her 951 passengers and seventeen of her crew died in the sinking.[1][2][3]

History
Name:	SS Australien
Owner:	Messageries Maritimes, Marseille
Builder:	Messageries Maritimes, La Ciotat
Yard number:	66
Launched:	1889
Fate:	Sunk on 19 July 1918
General characteristics
Tonnage:	6,659 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	152.5 m (500 ft)
Beam:	15.1 m (50 ft)
Depth:	10.4 m (34 ft)
Installed power:	818 nhp
Propulsion:	1 x 3 cylinder triple expansion steam engine 12 x Belleville boilers Single shaft 1 x screw
Sail plan:	3-masted barque rigged
Speed:	17.5 kn (20.1 mph)

See also

• SS Polynesien (1890)

References

1. SS Australien (+1918). Wreck Site. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
2. "Australien". Uboat.net. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
3. "French liners sunk". The Times (41868). London. 14 August 1918. col B, p. 6.