SS Australien (1889)

History
Name	SS 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 gross register tons (GRT)
Length	152.5 m (500 ft)
Beam	15.1 m (50 ft)
Depth	10.4 m (34 ft)
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 kn (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) 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.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

^ SS Australien (+1918). Wreck Site. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
^ "Australien". Uboat.net. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
^ "French liners sunk". The Times. No. 41868. London. 14 August 1918. col B, p. 6.

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v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in July 1918
Shipwrecks	2 Jul: USS Covington 4 Jul: SM U-20 5 Jul: Columbia 12 Jul: Kawachi 14 Jul: SM UC-77, Djemnah, Waitemata 16 Jul: Garibaldino 17 Jul: Carpathia 19 Jul: Australien, USS San Diego, SM UB-110 20 Jul: HMS E34, Justicia, SM UB-124 24 Jul: HMS Pincher Unknown date: USS Oosterdijk, SM UB-65, SM UB-108
Other incidents	1 Jul: USS Covington 6 Jul: HMS C25 19 Jul: Justicia 23 Jul: HMT Boorara, Minnekahda, USS N-3, USS Preble Unknown date: San Jacinto
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History

Name	SS 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 gross register tons (GRT)
Length	152.5 m (500 ft)
Beam	15.1 m (50 ft)
Depth	10.4 m (34 ft)
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 kn (20.1 mph)