SS Lourenço Marques

	The ship as Admiral
History
Name	1905: Admiral; 1916: Lourenço Marques;
Namesake	1916: Lourenço Marques
Owner	1905: Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie; 1916: Government of Portugal; 1926: Cia Nacional de Navegação;
Operator	1916: Transportes Mar do Estado
Port of registry	1905: Hamburg; 1916: Lisbon;
Route	1905: Hamburg – around Africa; 1926: Lisbon – Porto Amélia;
Builder	Blohm+Voss, Hamburg
Yard number	178
Launched	25 June 1905
Completed	23 September 1905
Maiden voyage	30 September 1905
Identification	1905: code letters RNTK; ; by 1913: call sign DAL; 1916: code letters HLMA; ; by 1934: call sign CSBC; ;
Fate	scrapped in 1950 or '51
General characteristics
Type	cargo liner
Tonnage	6,341 GRT, 3,696 NRT
Length	415.9 ft (126.8 m)
Beam	50.4 ft (15.4 m)
Depth	28.1 ft (8.6 m)
Decks	2
Installed power	622 NHP
Propulsion	2 × triple-expansion engines; 2 × screws;
Speed	14 knots (26 km/h)
Capacity	passengers: 72 × 1st class; 112 × 2nd class; 80 × 3rd class
Troops	about 1,000
Sensors &; processing systems	by 1912: submarine signalling; by 1938: echo sounding device;
Notes	sister ships: Prinzessin, Gertrud Woermann (1905), Adolph Woermann, Gertrud Woermann (1907)

SS Lourenço Marques was a steam cargo liner that was launched in Germany in 1905 as Admiral for Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie (DOAL). Portugal seized her in 1916 and renamed her after the explorer Lourenço Marques. After a few years operated by Transportes Marítimos do Estado, she had a long career with Companhia Nacional de Navegação (CNN). In the Second World War she took refugees who had fled German-occupied Europe to the United States, and rescued survivors from Allied merchant ships sunk by the German Navy. She was scrapped in Scotland in 1950 or 1951.

This was the second of two DOAL steamships that were called Admiral. The first was launched in 1890 as Tosari, bought by DOAL in 1891 and renamed Admiral, and sold in 1902 and renamed Rosalind.