| Name: | HELVETIA |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 20/11/1888 |
| Completed: | 01/1889 |
| Builder: | Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company |
| Yard: | Willington Quay |
| Yard Number: | 68 |
| Dimensions: | 2825grt, 1814nrt, 316.0 x 40.0 x 24.4ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (24, 40 & 64 x 45ins), 275nhp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | |
| History: | |
| 01/1889 | Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hamburg |
| 1907 | Seetransport-Ges mbH, Hamburg; renamed HERMERSBERG |
| 1909 | Rhederei-Vereinigung GmbH, Hamburg |
| 1911 | Dampfs Rhed “Merkur” GmbH (Emil R Retzlaff), Stettin |
| 05/1915 | Government of Italy |
| 1915 | Managers became Italian State Railways |
| 30/05/1916 | Sank |
| Comments: | 05/1915: Requisitioned by the Italian Government at Genoa |
| 30/05/1916: Sank after being captured and torpedoed by U-Boat U39 | |
| when 50 miles west of Cape Bougaroni. |