SS König Albert was a German Barbarossa-class ocean liner owned by the Norddeutscher Lloyd Line.

Interned in Italy at the outbreak of World War I, she was seized by the Italian Government in 1915 and converted to a hospital ship.

On 16 April 1903 she went to the Genoa - Naples - New York City run and stayed mainly on this service until commencing her last voyage on 11 June 1914.

[citation needed] On the outbreak of World War I, König Albert, like many other German ships, was interned in a neutral country to avoid capture by the Royal Navy.

On 20 January 1916 off the Albanian coast she was captured as a prize by the Austro-Hungarian Navy U-boat U-11, and escorted into their naval base of Cattaro (the event famously painted by Alexander Kircher).