SS Silesia

Several steamships have been named Silesia after the province of Schlesien

  • {{SS|Silesia|1869}} was a 3142-ton passenger-cargo ship of Hamburg America Line, in service until 1887
  • {{SS|Silesia|1897}} was a 4861-ton passenger-cargo ship in service with Hamburg America Line 1898-1918, built as Wally.{{cite ship register|register=MSI|id=5601047|shipname=Silesia|access-date=2021-12-27}} She was briefly aground off Pusan, Korea, in 1912.{{cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/19120803/050/0003 |access-date=27 December 2021 |work=The Standard |issue=27,502 |date=3 August 1912 |location=London |page=3|via=British Newspaper Archive}}
  • {{SS|Silesia|1898}} was a 5159-ton passenger-cargo ship built for Lloyd Austriaco; sequestered by the Italian government in 1920 and claimed as a war prize by the Chinese government.{{cite web |url= http://cisupa.proquest.com/ksc_assets/catalog/11029.pdf |title=F 1609/10/20 Seizure at Trieste of Austrian ship condemned in Shanghai Prize Court|work=Confidential British Foreign Office Correspondence|publisher=Foreign and Commonwealth Office |page=38|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043225/http://cisupa.proquest.com/ksc_assets/catalog/11029.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04}}
  • {{SS|Silesia|1923}} was a 1899-ton Swedish cargo vessel sunk by the {{GS|U-36|1936|6}} off the Norwegian coast near Stavanger on 25 November 1939.{{cite web |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?12909 |title=SS Silesia (+1939) |publisher=WreckSite |access-date=28 June 2011}}

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