Countess Who Named Vessel on Board The third and the last of the new German liners, the s. Gneisenau, of the Norddeutscher Lloyd Line, arrived in Shanghai on Saturday afternoon on her maiden trip at berthed alongside the Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf Company's Hongkew Wharf, bringing in many passengers who are making the maiden Found trip in the vessel. She iso sister-ship to the Scharnhorst, the first of the liners to arrive here, and to the Potsdam, the second, Among her passengers was the lady who named the ship. She is Countess Gneisenau, a descendant Of the famous Chief of Staff of the German Army in the Napoleonic Wars, He was Count Neidard von Gneisenau, who was with Blicher at Waterloo, and before that with Scharnhorst and Baron von Stein, in the Prussian uprising against Napoleon in 1813.
The Countess was asked by the Norddeutscher Lloyd Line to name the ship, and later she decided to make the maiden voyage in the vessel from Germany to Japan and The Gneisenau, like her sisters the Scharnhorst and the Potsdam, is bbe hulled with white superstruc ture. She is 18,000 tons gross, has a length of 652 fect, a beam of 70 feet, and a draft, fully laden, of 29 feet. Like the Scharnhorst she was built at the Weser Yards, but is different in that while she is fited with turbines for steamheating, the Scharnhorst is driven turbo-electric.
'The inner decoration varies slightly. She has an average speed of 20 Knots end makes the trip from Marseilles in 23 days, Her accommodation is spacious, both as regards. the passengers' cabins and the public rooms. Besides the usual accommodation there is a special sport deck and an open air swimming pool. The ship is under the command of Capiain J. Hengsternberg, who has had many years of experience in Far Eastern waters.
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