SS Silesia explained

Several steamships have been named Silesia after the province of Schlesien

• was a 3142-ton passenger-cargo ship of Hamburg America Line, in service until 1887
• 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]
• 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]
• was a 1899-ton Swedish cargo vessel sunk by the off the Norwegian coast near Stavanger on 25 November 1939.^[4]

See also

• , German pre-dreadnought battleship

Notes and References

1. ,MSI. 5601047. Silesia. 2021-12-27.
2. News: Shipping Intelligence . 27 December 2021 . The Standard . 27,502 . 3 August 1912 . London . 3. British Newspaper Archive.
3. Web site: F 1609/10/20 Seizure at Trieste of Austrian ship condemned in Shanghai Prize Court. Confidential British Foreign Office Correspondence. . 38. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043225/http://cisupa.proquest.com/ksc_assets/catalog/11029.pdf. 2016-03-04.
4. Web site: SS Silesia (+1939) . WreckSite . 28 June 2011.