SS Cambridge was a refrigerated steam cargo liner that was built in Germany for the Hamburg America Line.

She was launched in 1916 as Vogtland, but after the 1919 Treaty of Versailles the United Kingdom took her as war reparations and sold her to the Federal Steam Navigation Company, who renamed her Cambridge.

[4] Vogtland was built for the Hamburg America Line,[1] but when she was completed the UK Government seized her under Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles.

[2] Federal Steam lost three cargo ships to enemy action in the First World War.

[5] Vogtland was one of five new German ships that the UK government supplied to Federal Steam as reparations.

By 1930 Cambridge's tonnages had been slightly revised to 10,846 GRT and 6,678 NRT, and her navigation equipment included wireless direction finding.

[6] In the Second World War Cambridge continued her regular trade between New Zealand, Australia and the UK.

[8] At 2300 hrs on 7 November 1940 Cambridge was about 2+1⁄2 nautical miles (4.6 km) southeast of Wilsons Promontory when she struck one of the mines that the German auxiliary cruiser Passat laid in the Bass Strait.

[citation needed] Cambridge was one of the first ships to be sunk by enemy action in Australian waters in the Second World War.