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MV Empire Windrush
HMT ''Empire Windrush'', originally MV ''Monte Rosa'', was a passenger liner and cruise ship launched in Germany in 1930. During the 1930s, she operated as a German cruise ship under the name ''Monte Rosa''. During World War II, she was operated by the German navy as a troopship. She was acquired by the United Kingdom as a prize of war at the end of the war and renamed ''Empire Windrush''. In British service, she continued to be used mainly as a troopship until March 1954, when the vessel caught fire and sank in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of four crew.
''Empire Windrush'' is best remembered today for bringing one of the first large groups of post-war West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom, carrying 492 passengers and one stowaway on a voyage from Jamaica to London in 1948.〔David Kynaston, ''Austerity Britain 1945–1951'', London: Bloomsbury, 2007, p. 275; ISBN 978-0-7475-9923-4.〕 British Caribbean people who came to the United Kingdom in the period after World War II are sometimes referred to as the Windrush generation.
==Early history of the ship==
''Windrush'' was a diesel-powered motor ship, built by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, Germany, and launched on 4 December 1930. She was one of five ''Monte-class'' ocean liners that were launched between 1925 and 1931.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Monte class ocean liner (ger.) )〕 One of her sister-ships was the ''Monte Cervantes'', which sank near Tierra del Fuego in 1930. Of the other three ''Monte-class'' vessels, two would be later sunk by air-raids during World War II and one would be scuttled by the Allies in 1946.
Under the name ''Monte Rosa'', she was delivered to ''Hamburg-Südamerikanische-Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft'' (Hamburg South American Steam Shipping Company) in 1931, who operated her as a cruise ship. Many of her passengers were privileged Nazi Party members taking cruise holidays as part of the Strength Through Joy programme, intended to reward and encourage Party members and as a reward for services to the Nazi Party.
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