CECILIE
KRONPRINZESSIN CECILIE
Kronprinzessin Cecilie -
Kronprinzessin Cecilie -
# FAMILY MEMBER BIRTH DATE BIRTH PLACE DEATH DATE DEATH PLACE
2278 WIEST,Jacob 22 Oct 1884 Worms, Russia Nov 1970 Conrad, Montana
Final Destination Wishek, North Dakota
Jacob's Father, stepmother and Siblings arrived October 3,1911 aboard the same ship per below
Kronprinzessin Cecilie -
# FAMILY MEMBER BIRTH DATE BIRTH PLACE DEATH DATE DEATH PLACE
2274 WIEST,Friedrich Nov 1851 Russia 1913 Wishek, N.D.
2282 MARTEL,Louisa Abt 1858 Honezalleren
2284 WIEST,Arnold 22 May 1892 Russia
2287 WIEST,Edward Abt 1897 Rohrbach 2 Nov 1987 Hennepin Co., Mi.
2285 WIEST,Alexander 8 Jan 1899
2283 WIEST,C.Friedrick Dec 1889 Russia 10 Jun 1927 Hennepin Co., Mi
2286 MITZEL,Bertha 4 Apr 1890 Russia
Final Destination Wishek, North Dakota
Built by A/G Vulcan Shipyard, Stettin, Germany, 1906. 19,360 gross tons; 707 (bp) feet long; 72 feet wide. Steam quadruple expansion engines, twin screw. Service speed 23 knots. 1,970 passengers (558 first class, 338 second class, 1,074 third class).
Built for North German Lloyd, German flag, in 1906 and renamed Kronprinzessin Cecilie. Bremerhaven-
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The fifth and last of the German four-
Her commercial career ended when World War I began seven years later. At sea on 31 July, only 900 miles from reaching Plymouth, Kronprinzessin Cecile was ordered to return to the United States with her 1,216 passengers. (She was also carrying over $14 million in gold and silver destined to pay American industrial borrowings from British and French banks.) During the crossing, the tops of her buff funnels were painted black in an effort to disguise the ship as White Star's Olympic. She arrived at Bar Harbor, Maine, on 4 August and, after her passengers disembarked and the gold and silver were unloaded, she remained there for six weeks, guarded by a Coast Guard cutter and two destroyers. She was then escorted to Boston, where she was interned until the United States entered the war in 1917.
Taken over and converted into an armed troopship, Kronprinzessin Cecile became the USS Mount Vernon and made her first troop-
After temporary repairs at Brest, France, and a complete overhaul of her damaged boiler rooms at Boston, Mount Vernon returned to service in February 1919. Her last ocean crossing came in the fall of that year, when she was sent across the Pacific to Vladivostok to evacuate refugees and foreign troops trapped there after fleeing the Russian civil war.
On her return, Mount Vernon was transferred to the United States Shipping Board and laid up in the Patuxent River. Various plans to return her to commercial use came to naught, and she was ultimately scrapped in Baltimore in 1940.
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