Editing SS Imperator (section)

{{Short description|German ocean liner}}
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| Ship image = Imperator LOC ggbain 13359u.jpg
| Ship caption = SS ''Imperator''
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| Ship country = [[German Empire]]
| Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|German Empire|civil}}
| Ship name = SS ''Imperator''
| Ship namesake = [[Latin]] ''[[Imperator]]'', "emperor"
| Ship owner = [[Hamburg America Line]]
| Ship operator = Hamburg America Line
| Ship registry = [[Hamburg]]
| Ship route = Cuxhaven - Southampton - New York
| Ship builder = *[[AG Vulcan Stettin|AG Vulcan]]
*[[Hamburg]], Germany
| Ship laid down = 18 June 1910
| Ship launched = 23 May 1912
| Ship christened = 23 May 1912
| Ship completed = June 1913 at Hamburg, Germany
| Ship maiden voyage = 11 June 1913, [[Cuxhaven]] to New York Via Southampton
| Ship fate = Seized as war reparations. Used as a troop transport ship for the United States from May 1919. Handed over to the Cunard Line in September 1919, and renamed as RMS ''Berengaria''. Sold for scrap in 1939; final demolition completed in or around 1946.
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| Ship country = United States
| Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|United States|naval}}
| Ship name = USS ''Imperator''
| Ship acquired = by the Navy 5 May 1919 at [[Brest, France|Brest]], France
| Ship commissioned = 5 May 1919 USS ''Imperator''  at Brest, France
| Ship decommissioned = 24 November 1919 at New York City
| Ship identification = ID-4080
| Ship fate = Ceded to the [[Cunard Line]] as a war prize to make up for the loss of the {{ship|RMS|Lusitania}} and later renamed ''Berengaria''
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| Ship country = [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]
| Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|government}}
| Ship name = RMS ''Berengaria''
| Ship namesake = [[Berengaria of Navarre]]
| Ship owner = *1919–1934: [[Cunard Line]]
*1934–1938: [[Cunard White Star Line]]
| Ship operator = *1919–1934: Cunard Line
*1934–1938: Cunard White Star Line
| Ship registry = [[Liverpool]]
| Ship route = Southampton to New York via Cherbourg.
| Ship acquired = 1919
| Ship homeport = [[Liverpool|Liverpool, UK]]
| Ship fate = Scrapped between 1939 and 1946
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| Ship class = {{sclass|Imperator|ocean liner}}
| Ship tonnage = {{GRT|52,117}}
| Ship displacement = 53,000 tons{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}
| Ship length = {{convert|906|ft|m|abbr=on}}
| Ship beam = {{convert|98|ft|3|in|m|abbr=on}}
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| Ship draught = {{convert|35|ft|2|in|m|abbr=on}}
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| Ship decks = 11
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| Ship power = Steam generated at 265 psi by 46 watertube boilers of Vulcan Yarrow design, originally coal burning, later converted to oil fired in 1921.
| Ship propulsion = 4 [[steam turbine]]s AEG-Vulcan / Parsons direct drive on four shafts, total of {{convert|60000|shp|abbr=on}}
| Ship speed = *{{convert|24|kn|abbr=on}} max
| Ship capacity = *4,234 passengers:
** 908 first class
** 592 second class
** 962 third class
** 1,772 steerage (fourth class)
| Ship troops = 
| Ship crew = 1,180
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'''SS ''Imperator''''' (known as '''RMS ''Berengaria''''' for most of her career) was a German [[ocean liner]] built for the Hamburg America Line, launched in 1912. At the time of her completion in June 1913, she was the [[largest passenger ship]] in the world, surpassing the new [[White Star Line|White Star]] liner ''[[RMS Olympic|Olympic]].''<!--EDIT NOTICE: In the use of the personal pronoun this article follows WP:SHE4SHIPS; see talk page discussions on this.-->

''Imperator'' was the [[Imperator-class ocean liner|first of a trio]] of successively larger Hamburg America liners that included [[SS Vaterland (1913)| ''Vaterland'']] (later the United States Liner ''Leviathan'') and [[RMS Majestic (1914)| ''Bismarck'']] (later the White Star Line ''Majestic'') all of which were seized as war reparations.

''Imperator'' served for 14 months on HAPAG's transatlantic route, until the outbreak of [[World War I]], after which she remained in port in [[Hamburg]]. After the war, she was briefly commissioned into the [[United States Navy]] as '''USS ''Imperator'' (ID-4080)''' and employed as a transport, returning American troops from Europe. Following her service with the U.S. Navy, ''Imperator'' was purchased jointly by Britain's [[Cunard Line]] and [[White Star Line]] as part of [[World War I reparations|war reparations]], due to the loss of the ''[[RMS Lusitania]],'' where she sailed as the [[flagship]] '''RMS ''Berengaria''''' for the last 20 years of her career. William H. Miller wrote that "despite her German heritage and the barely disguised Teutonic tone of her interiors, she was thought of in the 1920s and 30s as one of Britain's finest liners."<ref name=miller>{{cite book| title=Picture History of British Ocean Liners: 1900 to the Present| author=William H. Miller| publisher=Dover Publications| year=2001|oclc=46462869}}</ref>{{rp|26}}