MS Milwaukee (1929)

MS Milwaukee's sistership MS St. Louis
History
Germany
Name	MS Milwaukee
Owner	Hamburg-America Line
Operator	Hamburg-America Line Kriegsmarine
Port of registry	Hamburg
Launched	February 20, 1929
Maiden voyage	March 28, 1929
Fate	Scrapped in 1952
Notes	Sister ship to MS St. Louis
History
United Kingdom
Name	Empire Waveney
Acquired	1945
In service	1945
Out of service	June 1947
Fate	Scrapped in 1947
General characteristics
Type	Passenger Liner
Tonnage	16,699 gross register tons (GRT)
Length	575.85 ft (175.52 m)
Beam	72.44 ft (22.08 m)
Propulsion	4 double acting MAN, six-cylinder two-stroke diesel engines
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Capacity	703 passengers

MS Milwaukee was a German diesel powered, passenger ship built by Blohm & Voss and launched in February, 1929 for the Hamburg-America Line. She was used on the transatlantic service from Hamburg to New York and made cruises to the Canary Islands, Madeira and Spain. During the Second World War the ship was used as a barracks ship by the Kriegsmarine. In 1945, the ship was handed to the British government under the name Empire Waveney and was used to carry troops. on Mar 1, 1946, she was badly damaged by fire at dock in Liverpool.

She was scrapped in Scotland in 1947.^[1][2]

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