Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse ("Emperor William the Great") was a German transatlantic ocean liner in service from 1897 to 1914, when she was scuttled in...

der Grosse off Río de Oro on the coast of Northwest Africa. Under the command of Max Reymann, Imperial German Navy ship SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse was...

named after Crown Prince Wilhelm, son of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, and was a sister ship of SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. She had a varied career...

SS Friedrich der Grosse (or Friedrich der Große) was a Norddeutscher Lloyd liner built in 1896 which sailed Atlantic routes from Germany and sometimes...

armed merchant cruiser. In 1897, Norddeutscher Lloyd launched SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. She was followed three years later by three sister ships. The...

sinking, although the colliers were able to rescue 279 sailors from the wreck before she sank. Fifty-one were killed in the fighting or the sinking (other...

Kea, Greece. Norddeutscher Lloyd first ordered the SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse with the goal of breaking the North Atlantic speed record (then held...

sister ships to Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse: Kronprinz Wilhelm, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Kronprinzessin Cecilie all of whom were part of a "Kaiser class". In response...

683°N 16.850°E / 54.683; 16.850 SS General von Steuben was a German passenger liner and later an armed transport ship of the German Navy that was sunk in...

Riband" for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. However, Norddeutscher Lloyd's new liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Große had taken the Blue Riband from...

a bale of cotton. The Lloyd ships SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, SS Saale and SS Main were also damaged in the fire, with the SS Saale sinking, whilst...

elite as well. In 1897 the North German Lloyd had launched their Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, a four-funnelled liner which proved a great success. By 1906...

Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and Kaiser Wilhelm II. Advanced safety features on these liners were heavily publicised, de-emphasising the likelihood of these...

United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, approximately 1,500 died, making the incident the deadliest sinking of a single ship...

Southampton and New York. On the afternoon of 30 June 1900, Saale, along with her line mates Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Main, and Bremen, were moored alongside...

the advent of their so-called Kaiser-class ocean liners, the first of which was the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. Lloyd soon had a fleet of four liners...

1914 she was of the coast of Brazil with more than 1,000 people aboard when the German 14,349 GRT auxiliary cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse intercepted...

Louise were deemed unsuitable and returned to their owners. Only Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse carried out a raiding voyage; Cap Finisterre, Prinz Ludwig and...

König Wilhelm's path and was rammed, sinking within about fifteen minutes. Between 269 and 284 of her crew drowned. Her loss spurred a series of investigations...

control and no armor. There were, however, a few success stories. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse was a former passenger liner that sank two freighters in 1914...

SS Elbe was a transatlantic ocean liner built in the Govan Shipyard of John Elder & Company Ltd., Glasgow, in 1881 for the Norddeutscher Lloyd of Bremen...

following the accidental sinking of her sister Grosser Kurfürst in a collision with the ironclad König Wilhelm. Friedrich der Grosse was decommissioned for...

SS Admiral Nakhimov (Russian: Адмирал Нахимов), launched in March 1925 and originally named SS Berlin, was a passenger liner of the German Weimar Republic...

1935. In 1897 the German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the largest and fastest ship in the world. With a speed of 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph),...

in emigrants leaving Europe for North America. The NDL liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse captured the Blue Riband from Cunard's Campania in 1897, before...

was GLSQ. SS Nomadic – surviving tender to Olympic SS Kronprinz Wilhelm, a German passenger ship that, like Olympic, collided with a ship of The Royal...

armed merchant cruiser SMS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse off the coast of Spanish Sahara. Highflyer spent most of the rest of the war on convoy escort duties...

of the first successful transmission of wireless signals from a passenger ship to a distant receiver. The German steamer SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse...

Lloyd transatlantic ocean liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. Orinoco's clipper bow penetrated Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse's starboard side, killing four people...

Still among the largest yachts, at 446 feet (136 m) long. SMS Kaiser Karl der Grosse, battleship – first battleship to be built in the yard SMS Glyndwr...