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{{redirect-multi|2|SS Ilitsch|SS Caribia|other ships|RMS Caronia (1947)}}

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| Ship image=Caribia (Schiff, 1932).jpg
| Ship caption=SS ''Caribia'' on the [[Scheldt]] (1938).
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| Ship country=[[Germany]]
| Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Weimar Republic|civil}} {{shipboxflag|Nazi Germany|civil}} {{shipboxflag|Nazi Germany|navy}}
| Ship name=''Caribia''
| Ship operator=[[Hamburg America Line]]
| Ship registry=* 1933–1940: {{flagicon|Nazi Germany|civil}} [[Hamburg]]
* 1940–1945: {{flagicon|Nazi Germany|navy}} [[Flensburg]]
| Ship ordered=1932
| Ship builder=[[Blohm+Voss|Blohm & Voss]] Hamburg
| Ship yard number=493
| Ship laid down=
| Ship launched=1 March 1932
| Ship completed=5 February 1933
| Ship commissioned=1940
| Ship decommissioned=1945
| Ship identification=* {{IMO Number|6807527|disp=yes}}
| Ship struck=
| Ship homeport=Hamburg
| Ship fate=Transferred to United Kingdom, 1945
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| Ship country=[[United Kingdom]]
| Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|government}}
| Ship name=''Caribia''
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| Ship registry= 
| Ship acquired=1945
| Ship identification=* {{IMO Number|6807527|disp=yes}}
| Ship fate=Transferred to USSR, 1946
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| Ship country=[[Soviet Union]]
| Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Soviet Union|civil}}
| Ship name=''Ilitsch''
| Ship operator=[[Far East Shipping Company]] 
| Ship homeport=[[Vladivostok]]
| Ship registry={{flagicon|Soviet Union|civil}} Vladivostok
| Ship in service=1946–1981
| Ship acquired=as spoils of war, 1946
| Ship identification=* {{IMO Number|6807527|disp=yes}}
* {{Call sign|UKEO}}
| Ship struck=1981
| Ship fate=Scrapped 1984
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| Ship type=[[Ocean liner]]
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| Ship tonnage={{GRT|12049}}
| Ship tons burthen={{DWT|5,480|metric|disp=}}
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| Ship length={{convert|151.70|m|ft|2|abbr=on}}
| Ship beam={{convert|20.10|m|ft|2|abbr=on}}
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| Ship draught = {{convert|8.5|m|ft|2|abbr=on}}
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| Ship power=11,500 shp
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| Ship speed={{convert|17|kn}}
| Ship capacity=* 1933-1965 447 passengers (234 first (cabin) class, 103 cabin (tourist) class, 110 tourist (third) class)
* 1965-1981 711 passengers
| Ship crew=198
| Ship notes=Sister ship ''Cordillera''
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The '''''Caribia''''' was a 1933 commissioned [[Passenger ship|passenger]]/[[Cargo ship|cargo]] ship of the Hamburg America Line ({{abbr|HAPAG|Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft}}), which was used in passenger traffic to [[Middle America (Americas)|Central America]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.trains-worldexpresses.com/webships/300/304.htm|title=Caribbean|date=2012-06-22|website=Trains-WorldExpresses|quote=M.S. "Caribia" entered the pages of technological history, when in 1935 in cooperation with the German Post for the first time a television reception has succeeded on board of a ship.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103102055/https://www.trains-worldexpresses.com/webships/300/304.htm|archive-date=2023-11-03}}</ref>. She became the property of the Soviet Union in 1946 and was scrapped in 1984.

== The ship ==
The ''Caribia'' was a 12,049 GRT [[Motor ship|motor vessel]] built by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg for HAPAG's Central America service. The 151.70 meter long ship was launched on March 1, 1932 and was completed on February 5, 1933. She had an identical [[Sister ship|sister ship]], the ''Cordillera'' (12,055 GRT), also commissioned in 1933. Both ships had two [[Mast (sailing)|masts]], a funnel, two [[Propeller|propellers]] and could reach a speed of 17 knots. The Caribia could carry 234 first class, 103 tourist class and 110 third class passengers. The crew consisted of 198 people.

The construction of the ''Caribia'' and ''Cordillera'' helped save Blohm & Voss from bankruptcy during the [[Great Depression]] of the early 1930s. The Reich government contributed financially to the construction as a kind of job creation measure for the shipyard. In March 1933, the ''Caribia'' made her maiden voyage from Hamburg via the [[West Indies]] to Central America. In early 1939, the ''Caribia'' brought 85 German and Austrian Jews<ref name="Caestecker, pg. 278">{{cite book|title=Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States| publisher=Berghahn Books|year=2010|isbn=978-1845455873}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://narrow-gate.net/2019/05/02/jewish-ships-troubled-waters/|date=2019-05-02|last=King|first=Jeff|title=Jewish refugee ships: Troubled waters|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103071335/https://narrow-gate.net/2019/05/02/jewish-ships-troubled-waters/|archive-date=2023-11-03}}</ref> to [[Venezuela]], who were allowed to enter the country on the basis of a special permit from President [[Eleazar López Contreras]]<ref name="jta.org1">{{Cite web|title=86 Allowed Temporary Stay in Venezuela|work=The Global Jewish News Source|url=http://www.jta.org/1939/02/17/archive/86-allowed-temporary-stay-in-venezuela| access-date=June 17, 2013}}</ref>. The ship had first called at the British colony of [[Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad]], where the Jewish passengers had been turned away.

The civil use of the ocean liner ended with the outbreak of the [[World War II|Second World War]]. From 1940 the ship in Flensburg-[[Mürwik]] was used as a residential ship for the [[Kriegsmarine]]. After Germany's surrender, the ''Caribia'' was taken over by the British in May 1945, who handed her over to the [[United States|USA]] two months later. In 1946 the ship went to the Soviet Union as spoils of war. Under the name ''Ilitsch'', the ship operated between the Russian port city of Vladivostok and the [[Kamchatka Peninsula|Kamtschatka]]. Decommissioned in 1983, the former ''Caribia'' was scrapped the following year.

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{URL|www.schiffe-maxim.de/Caribia.htm Zusammenfassende Schiffsdaten und Foto|Summary ship data and photo}} {{in lang|de}}
* {{URL|www.shipsnostalgia.com/media/caribia.404249/|CARIBIA - Ships Nostalgia}}
* *{{cite web |url=https://www.simplonpc.co.uk/HAPAG3.html#anchor670082|last=Boyle |first=Ian |title=HAPAG Page 3: 1915-1939 |work=Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) |publisher=Simplon Poastcards}} – postcard of ''Caribia''
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