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The Kaiser Friedrich was an express steamer completed in 1898 for the Lloyd of North Germany. As the ship did not reach the speed required for scheduled transport between Bremerhaven and New York, she was chartered to HAPAG and subsequently decommissioned. In 1912 the steamship was sold to the French Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique and operated as Burdigala in South America before being relaunched. During the First World War the ship was used by the French navy as an armed troop transport. In November 1916, the former Kaiser Friedrich stumbled upon a mine in the Aegean Sea and sank.(Wikipedia)