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''Kronprinzessin Cecilie'' was a Hamburg-America Line passenger ship launched 14 October 1905 by Krupp Aktiengesellschaft Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany. The ship was placed on the South American service and soon to be overshadowed by the Norddeutscher Lloyd four stack liner launched 1 December 1906 that, at , was over twice the tonnage of the Hamburg-America Line ship. The ship, after leaving New York on 25 July 1914 sought refuge in the port of Falmouth, Cornwall, Britain not yet having declared war, from a French cruiser. The ship was given permission to leave on Britain's entry into the war, though British and French warships were waiting, refused, and as a result was condemned in a British court, requisitioned by the government and taken into the Royal Navy as HMS ''Princess'' in 1915. ==Construction and design== ''Kronprinzessin Cecilie'' was built for the Hamburg-America Line by Krupp Aktiengesellschaft Germaniawerft, Kiel, under a June 1904 contract in which the keel was laid 1 January 1905 and the ship was launched on 14 October 1905. The ship was length between perpendiculars, by extreme beam. Two quadruple expansion main engines, with cylinders of , , and with a stroke of , each developed about 3,035 indicated horsepower at 79 revolutions. The engines were in a central engine room without separation bulkheads with common starting and work platforms between and drove two manganese bronze four bladed propellers, turning outboard going ahead, with diameter and pitch.〔Values approximate as English language publication's ft/inch values converted to metric for use and reconverted by template to match article's original metric units.〕 Steam was provided by three double ended, with three furnaces at each end, and one single ended boiler with three furnaces at the front end for a total of twenty-one furnaces. Electrical power at 102 volts for lights and some auxiliary equipment, including radio, was generated by three dynamos, two aft in the engine room and one above the waterline forward of the main deck engine hatch, each delivering 400 amperes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie (1905)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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