Built by A/G Vulcan Shipyard, Stettin, Germany, 1909. 25,570 gross tons; 723 (bp) feet long; 72 feet wide. Steam quadruple expansion engines, twin screw.  Service speed 18 1/2 knots.  2,679 passengers (568 first class, 433 second class, 1,678 third class).Two funnels and four masts, reduced to one funnel 1943.

Built for North German Lloyd, German flag, in 1909 and named George Washington. Bremerhaven-New York service. Interned at New York at the start of World War I in 1914. Seized by United States Government, American flag, in 1917 and renamed USS George Washington. Also Bremerhaven-New York service. Transferred to U.S. Shipping Board, in 1920 and renamed George Washington. New York Plymouth Cherbourg Bremen service. Chartered to United States Mail Lines. Laid up U.S. Shipping Board, in 1932. Laid up at Patuxent River, Maryland until WWII. Transferred to United States Navy, American flag, in 1940 and renamed Caitlin. British transport but returned due to malfunctioning boilers. Transferred to U.S. authorities, in 1941 and reverted to George Washington. Panama and New York, then US Army transport service. Completely destroyed by a fire at Baltimore; wreckage scrapped in 1951.