TSS Hibernia was a twin screw steamer passenger vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1900 to 1914.

She was built by William Denny and Brothers of Dumbarton for the London and North Western Railway in 1899 and introduced into service in early 1900.

The U-boat saved Hibernia's crew and handed them over to Senussi tribesmen as prisoners of war (POWs).

With a guide who had been to Bir Hakeim some 30 years previously as a boy he set off across the desert estimating that he was about 70 miles (110 km) away.

[4][page needed] Captain Gwatkin-Williams estimated the prisoners were only a few days from death due to starvation when the Duke of Westminster rescued them.