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Note: Philadelphia Passenger Lists, 1883-1945 Janos Valiga
PRINZ OSKAR / ORION 1902 The PRINZ OSKAR was a 6,026 gross ton ship, built in 1902 by Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack for the Hamburg America Line of Hamburg. Her details were - length 403.4ft x beam 49.2ft, one funnel, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 13 knots. There was capacity for 60-1st and 1,200-3rd class passengers. Launched on 15/12/1902, she started her maiden voyage from Hamburg to Brazil in June 1903. On 10/10/1903 she commenced her first Genoa - Naples - New York voyage, and started her last voyage on this service on 29/6/1906. She transferred to the Genoa - Buenos Aires route on 22/9/1906 and then to the Hamburg - Halifax - St John NB service on 19/3/1909. On 14/5/1909 she commenced her first Hamburg - Quebec - Montreal sailing and started her last voyage on this route on 27/5/1910. She commenced her first Hamburg - Philadelphia crossing on 13/9/1910 and her last on 21/7/1914. On August 4th 1914 she was interned at Philadelphia and on April 6th 1917 was seized by the US government, renamed ORION and operated by the US Shipping Board. Sold to the American owned Black Star Line in 1922, she reverted to the US Shipping Board the following year and was scrapped at Baltimore in 1929. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.1,p.409] [South Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, p.350] [Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.4, Hamburg America Line, p.76]
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