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Elbe Beach

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Elbe Beach
Elbe Beach
Elbe Beach
Elbe Beach
Elbe Beach
Elbe Beach
Elbe Beach
Elbe Beach
Elbe Beach
Elbe Beach
Elbe Beach
Elbe Beach
Elbe Beach
Elbe Beach
Elbe Beach
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Elbchaussee, Hamburg, Germany

Empire Fowey was a 19,121 GRT ocean liner that was built in 1935 as Potsdam by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg for the Hamburg America Line. She was sold before completion to Norddeutscher Lloyd. While owned by Norddeutscher Lloyd she was one of three sister ships operating the service between Bremen and the Far East. Her sister ships were SS Scharnhorst and SS Gneisenau. En route to the United States when war was declared, she managed to return to Germany. Used as an accommodation ship and troopship during World War II, she was seized by the Allies in 1945 and renamed Empire Jewel. She was converted to a troopship in 1946 but her high-pressure boilers proved troublesome and the ship was rebuilt in 1947 and renamed Empire Fowey. Sold to Pakistan in 1960 and renamed Safina-E-Hujjaj, she served until 1976 when she was scrapped at Gadani Beach, Pakistan.
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