Empire Ken was a 9,523 GRT passenger ship which was built by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg. Launched in 1928 as Ubena for Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie. Requisitioned in 1939 by the Kriegsmarine, used as depot ship for the 3rd, 5th and 21st U-boat Flotillas. Converted in 1945 to hospital ship, participated in the evacuation of Germans from the Baltics.

HMT Empire Ken, circa 1950s. The Empire Ken started her life as the Ubena, one of several luxury vessels operated by the German East Africa Line in the 1930s. During the Second World War, she became part of the Nazi fleet, helping to service submarine flotillas.

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EMPIRE KEN docked at an unidentified port. We have over 1.7 million object records online, and we are adding to this all the time. Our records are never finished. Sometimes we discover new information that changes what we know about an object, such as who made it or used it. Sometimes we change how an object is interpreted.

HMT. Empire Ken - 9523tons, built 1928 Passenger ship. Seized by Allies at Travemunde in 1945. HMT EMPIRE KEN was scrapped in 1957. Her previous history was: 1928 UBENA, German East Africa Line. 1939 German Navy, U-Boat depot ship. 1945 German hopital ship.

Empire Ken This ship was built in 1928 as a passenger liner, named the Ubena, for the German East Africa Line. In 1939 she was used by the German Navy as a U-Boat depot ship, but at the beginning of 1945 her use had changed to being a hospital ship.

Vessel name on Arrival: Empire Ken. Original Builder: Blohm + Voss, Steinwerder, Hamburg, Germany. Original Yard No: 482. Official Number: 180773. Vessel Type: passenger. GRT: 9554. Year Built: 1928. Arrival Date: 16/12/1957. Breakup Started: 06/01/1958. Date First Beached: 09/04/1958. Date Breakup Completed: 27/11/1958. Draught For’d: 9' 6 ...

LS to the De Lesseps statue and pan left over blocks of flats. LS to the troopship Empire Ken with a LCT alongside, and pan left past two LSTs in commercial livery to the central mole with beyond it in the canal entrance, the blockships Pollux and Peluse.

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