Built by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany for the Hamburg-American Line. She was a 16,974 GT ship with dimensions of 588'x65'. Twin-screw, 16 knots, quadruple expansion engines, four masts and two funnels.

Passengers: 239 first, 224 second and 2,391 third. Maiden voyage: Hamburg-Southampton-Cherbourg-New York, March 27, 1909.

Renamed (A) MOBILE (1917); (B0 KING ALEXANDER (1920), (C) CLEVELAND (1923).

Scrapped in Germany 1933. Sister ship CINCINNATI.