1922 - First trip Bremerhaven-La Plata 7.1925 - Pass. accommodation refitted into 216 II.Cl., 637 III.Cl., renamed "MADRID" 1934 - Chartered to Hamburg-Süd, Hamburg 16.5.1935 - Sold to Hamburg-Süd 9.1939 - Laid up at Las Palmas 30.11.1940 - Ordered home. Second blind funnel removed. 11.12.1940 - Left Las Palmas 28.12.1940 - Arriving St. Nazaire/France after succesfully slipping through the allied blockade 15.2.1941 - Auxiliary/dormitory ship for submarine crews 9.12.1941 - Sunk near Den Helder/Holland by British air attacks, 12 dead
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