 SS "Wartburg" was a single-screw, steel-hulled freighter completed in 1900 at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, by Wigham Richardson and Co., Ltd., for service with the Deutsche Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft "Hansa".Prior to World War I she was operated commercially by the Norddeutscher Lloyd line under the German flag, with her name being changed to "Tübingen" in 1906-1907.In 1911, she collided with the minelayer .