Sister Ship
Sister ship Corcovado (1907) later: Sueh, Guglielmo Pierce, Corcovado, Maria Christina, Mauzinho
The Corcovado (8,099 GRT) [ See picture ] was also built at the Germaniawerft, Kiel, for the South America/Brazil service. She was launched on 21 December 1907 and made her maiden voyage from Hamburg to South America. Website about it in German ]From 1911, she, like her sister ship, was deployed to Central America. On 19 October 1912, she sailed from Hamburg to New York for the first time, and on 15 March 1914, she sailed from Hamburg to Philadelphia for the first time.
On 15 April 1914 she opened a new HAPAG line from New York to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, on which she was deployed with the two older steamers Barcelona ex Arabia (5,446 GRT) and Pisa (4,967 GRT) from 1896. When the Corcovado arrived in Constantinople there was a large banquet on board with the US ambassador Morgenthau. On 20 May she began her first return voyage from Odessa via Batumi to Constantinople, Smyrna, Piraeus and New York. On 26 July 1914 the Corcovado reached Odessa again and was able to reach Constantinople before the outbreak of the First World War. For the duration of the war she served as an accommodation ship and headquarters of the German Mediterranean Division.
In 1915 she was sold to Turkey and renamed Sueh.
On 6 December 1918, the Allied occupying forces interned German and Austrian citizens living in Istanbul on the Sueh before expelling them. [ 9 ]
In 1919 the ship came to France as war booty and was given back its old name.
In 1920, she was sold to the Italian shipping company Sicula Americana in Naples and renamed Gugliemo Pierce. The ship was initially used on the Naples-South America route, sailing from Naples to New York for the first time on December 9, 1920. On November 5, 1923, she embarked on her 14th and final voyage to New York. In 1926, she was chartered to the Cosulich Line, Trieste. In 1927, Sicula sold her to Lloyd Sabaudo in Genoa, who renamed her Maria Christina.
In 1930, the Portuguese Cia Colonial purchased the ship and renamed it Mouzinho. The ship was then again deployed on the Lisbon-Angola-Mozambique route with her sister ship Colonial, formerly the Ypiranga. In June and August 1941, she made two voyages between Lisbon and New York. In 1954, the former Corcovado was scrapped in Savona.
