Tübingen

HS Tübingen was a German hospital ship of the Second World War. Built in France in 1922, she served as the passenger liner Gouverneur Général Tirman until the fall of France in 1940. In 1943, she was designated a hospital ship by the German authorities and renamed Tübingen. She served on routes between Italy and Greece, transferring sick and wounded troops, though occasionally she was found by British forces to be operating in contravention of the Geneva Conventions by carrying fit personnel. Tübingen was sunk on 18 November 1944 off Croatia by British Beaufighter aircraft after failures to properly identify the vessel and her location. A formal protest over the sinking was raised to the protecting power by the German authorities.