[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1] But in the late 1930s, they commissioned their first large liner since the Bismarck from the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg. She was to be named Vaterland and have a gross tonnage of 41,000. Her length would be an astonishing 824 feet and her turboelectric engines would [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]drive her at a service speed of 23.5 knots. She would be very streamlined and actually have some of the Normandie’s lean grace. The Vaterland was launched in 1940 but laid up because of the war. Before fitting out could commence, the great liner was bombed during Allied raids in Hamburg on July 25, 1943. The wreckage of the liner had been entirely scrapped by 1948.[/SIZE][/FONT]