SS Corcovado was a cargo liner that was launched in Germany in 1907 for the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG).

In her HAPAG career Corcovado served various transatlantic routes between Europe and both South and North America.

By 1911 Ypiranga had been remedied by installing two antiroll tanks near her foremast and her mainmast, linked by a flying bridge.

The flow of water between the tanks, controlled by regulating the movement of the air in the side branches, steadied her in rough seas.

[7] On 27 May a banquet for to promote the service was held aboard Corcovado in Istanbul, at which US Ambassador Henry Morgenthau addressed 100 guests.

[7] At 11:00 hrs on 1 August 1914, with the First World War imminent, HAPAG announced the suspension of its shipping services.

[1][7] In 1918 she carried German troops in the Black Sea, calling at Sevastopol at the end of May,[12] and Odesa on an unknown date.

[1][14] In 1920 the Società Sicula Americana (Sicilian American Company) bought Corcovado, and renamed her Guglielmo Peirce after its founder.

[16] On 3 July 1922, as Guglielmo Peirce was approaching Pier 95 on the Hudson River in New York, one of her steerage passengers was wounded by a bullet.

In November 1923 Guglielmo Peirce made her fourteenth voyage to and from New York, after which Sicula Americana laid her up.

[23] In January 1928 Lloyd Sabaudo and Navigazione Generale Italiana announced that they would jointly run an improved service to Australia, and that Maria Cristina would join the route on 17 April.

Some of the Italians waiting on the quay to meet the ship made "vehement threats" against him, and the police were called.

She reached Adelaide on 26 May with her helmsman using the auxiliary steering wheel on her poop, but as a precaution she was not allowed to enter the Port River, and she docked instead at a quay in the Outer Harbour.

[31] On 1 June she reached Circular Quay, Sydney, where she disembarked 49 passengers and discharged general cargo.

[35] In November 1929 Lloyd Sabaudo announced that it was selling the ship to Companhia Colonial de Navegação (CCN) for £70,000.

[39] The change of ownership reunited Mouzinho with her sister ship, the former Ypiranga, which CCN had bought from Anchor Line in 1929 and renamed Colonial.

Ports of call en route were Funchal, São Tomé, Sazaire, Luanda, Porto Amboim, Lobito, Moçâmedes, Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), and the Island of Mozambique.

On 21 June she reached Pier 8 on Staten Island, New York,[42] where a team of 30 American Red Cross volunteers met the refugees as they disambarked.

[43][46] Mouzinho's adult refugees included 26 Christian women missionaries who had survived the sinking of Zamzam in the South Atlantic by the German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis two months previously.

They included the artist Marc Chagall and his wife Bella Rosenfeld;[47] Robert Serebrenik, Grand Rabbi of Luxembourg; Maximilian Weinberger, former head of the Rothschild Hospital in Vienna; the German actor and theatre director Ewald Schindler and his wife; and the banker Martin Aufhäuser.

[48] Three days after the ship left Lisbon, a Polish refugee aboard gave birth to a baby boy.

On 1 June the Portuguese ship Tarrafal found 85 survivors in four lifeboats 10 nautical miles (19 km) off Santo Antão, Cape Verde.

On 25 July Mouzinho called at São Vicente, where she embarked some of the survivors to take them to Bathurst (now Banjul) in Gambia.

Other survivors remained on São Vicente until 21 August, when they embarked on her sister ship Colonial to go to Cape Town in South Africa.

On 8 August she was in Lourenço Marques, where two former US consuls from Saigon in French Indochina (now Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam) and Osaka in Japan embarked on her to take up new posts in West Africa.

On 31 August the Portuguese Navy aviso NRP Pedro Nunes rescued 67 survivors and landed them at Funchal on Madeira.

On the afternoon of 5 October Mouzinho, steaming from Funchal to the island of São Tomé, found 32 survivors in one lifeboat.