SS Norseman was a British cargo liner that was torpedoed by the German submarine SMU U-39 in the Mediterranean Sea off Thessaloniki, Greece on 22 January 1916. The vessel was en route from Plymouth, United Kingdom to Thessaloniki, while carrying a varied cargo including about 1,100 mules and munitions. Norseman was subsequently beached at Moudros, Greece, and declared a total loss. She was scrapped in situ in 1920.[1]
Construction
Norseman was launched on 27 November 1897 and completed in March 1898 at the Harland & Wolff Ltd. shipyard in Belfast, United Kingdom as Brasilia for the Hamburg America Line. The ship was 152.6 m long, had a beam of 19 m and had a depth of 10.3 m. She was assessed at and had two 4-cylinder quadruple expansion engines driving two screw propellers. The ship could generate 604 nominal horsepower, with a speed of 13 kn. She was also fitted with four masts instead of two in 1899.[1]