Two steamships have borne the name Abessinia, after the German name for the
Ethiopian Empire:
SS Abessinia (1900) was a 5,633-ton passenger/cargo ship launched on 16 June 1900, by Palmers',
Jarrow, England. Lost on 3 September 1921 on her way to be delivered as war reparations.[1]
SS Abessinia (1920) was a 1,565-ton cargo ship completed in October 1920, by Bremer Vulkan in
Vegesack, Germany. Renamed twice, torpedoed and sunk as the Italian Sebastiano Bianchi by a submarine off
Cape Spartivento, Italy, on 13 December 1940.[2]
See also
SS Abyssinia, a British mail steamer, built in 1870
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list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
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Two steamships have borne the name Abessinia, after the German name for the
Ethiopian Empire:
SS Abessinia (1900) was a 5,633-ton passenger/cargo ship launched on 16 June 1900, by Palmers',
Jarrow, England. Lost on 3 September 1921 on her way to be delivered as war reparations.[1]
SS Abessinia (1920) was a 1,565-ton cargo ship completed in October 1920, by Bremer Vulkan in
Vegesack, Germany. Renamed twice, torpedoed and sunk as the Italian Sebastiano Bianchi by a submarine off
Cape Spartivento, Italy, on 13 December 1940.[2]
See also
SS Abyssinia, a British mail steamer, built in 1870
This article includes a
list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.