SS Australien

History
Name	Australien
Owner	Messageries Maritimes, Marseille
Builder	Messageries Maritimes, La Ciotat
Yard number	66
Launched	1889
Completed	February 1890
Fate	Sunk on 19 July 1918
General characteristics
Tonnage	6,659 GRT
Length	152.5 m (500 ft 4 in)
Beam	15.1 m (49 ft 6 in)
Depth	10.4 m (34 ft 1 in)
Installed power	818 nhp
Propulsion	1 × 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engine 12 × Belleville boilers Single shaft 1 × screw
Sail plan	3-masted barque rigged
Speed	17.5 knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph)

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; 30 mi) 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.

See also

• SS Polynesien (1890)

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