I think she deserves a (humble) place in the esteemed gallery of 'passenger liners'. She was passenger /cargo steamer with extensive accommodation in steerage. For NDL as "Giessen" she ran a migrant service Bremen, Antwerp, Boulogne, Coruna, Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Buenos Aires and the extant passenger lists are lengthy. When seized following WW2 she was employed as a troopship.( returning over 1000 troops to Wellington, NZ) . Ellerman Bucknall employed her passenger capacity on their Liverpool-Bombay/Karachi route (though at 12 knots advertising it as a 'Fast Passenger Service' might be an exaggeration). Ellermans would have cut down the passenger numbers on their routes, but as can be seen in the photo there are a number of boats visible and who are all those people on the promenade deck?
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