Editing SS Cap Arcona (section)

==Peacetime service==
''Cap Arcona'' entered service in 1927, commencing her maiden voyage on Hamburg Süd's route to Buenos Aires 29 October. She joined the older liner {{SS|Cap Polonio||2}} on the route, which had been Hamburg Süd's flagship until ''Cap Arcona''{{'}}s completion. ''Cap Polonio'' was laid up in 1931 and scrapped in 1935,<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.schiffe-maxim.de/Polonio.htm |title=Cap Polonio (1914–1935) |work=Hamburg-Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft (H.S.D.G.) |publisher=schiff-maxim.de |language=de |access-date=22 May 2017}}</ref> leaving ''Cap Arcona'' as Hamburg Süd's sole prestige ship on its South American route.

On 6 October 1932 ''Cap Arcona'' collided with the French [[cargo ship]] {{SS|Agen||2}} in the [[North Sea]] off the [[Elbe 4 Lightship]]. ''Agen'' was beached, but later was refloated and escorted into [[Hamburg]], Germany.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Fire in a British motor-vessel |date=7 October 1932 |page=23 |issue=46258 |column=C }}</ref>