| Name: | ELBERFELD |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 28/05/1889 |
| Completed: | 06/1889 |
| Builder: | Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 551 |
| Dimensions: | 2630grt, 1697nrt, 310.0 x 39.0 x 23.5ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (23, 38 & 61 x 39ins), 285nhp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | n/a |
| History: | |
| 06/1889 | Deutsch-Australische Dampfs Ges, Hamburg |
| 1894 | Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hamburg; renamed HERCYNIA |
| 09/1905 | Imperial Russian Navy; renamed LAKHTA |
| 12/04/1918 | White Finnish Forces |
| 1918 | Government of Finland |
| 11/1922 | Soviet Union, Odessa |
| 1924 | A/O 'Sovtorgflot', Odessa |
| 1935 | Broken up |
| Comments: | 09/1905: Converted for use as a transport and hospital ship |
| 12/04/1918: Taken over by pro-conservative White Finns at Helsingfors | |
| 1928: School ship at Odessa, withdrawn 1934 | |
| 1935: Broken up |
Above photo of LAKHTA, as a hospital ship during WW1, courtesy of Michael Urvantsev