Hamburg America Line
Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG), or simply called Hamburg America Line, was a German shipping line founded in Hamburg in 1847, it would merge with Norddeutscher Lloyd in 1970 to found Hapag-Lloyd.
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Native name | Hamburg-Amerikanische Paketfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft |
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| Industry | Shipping |
| Fate | Merged with Norddeutscher Lloyd |
| Successor | Hapag-Lloyd |
| Founded | 1847 |
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| Defunct | 1 September 1970 |
| Headquarters | Hamburg , Germany |
It is known for having had three great ocean liners: SS Imperator,[1] SS Vaterland[2] and SS Bismarck,[3] which surpassed the British Ocean Liners in size and luxury, although after the end of the First World War they would pass into British (Cunard and White Star) and American (United States Lines) hand as war reparations, The SS Deutschland which would win the coveted Blue Riband between 1900-1903 and the SS Amerika,[4] which would be the first ship to alert the RMS Titanic of the Presence of icebergs.
Hamburg America Line Media
"Twin Screw Express Steamers" 1899 ad
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Postcard of the view from the water of the Hamburg-American Steamship Lines docks in Hoboken, New Jersey, in about 1910
Postcard from the Hamburg-American Line steamship König Friedrich August, issued 1911
Advertisement for the Hamburg-American Line (1930)
Poster by Otto Arpke (1931)
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References
- ↑ "Imperator". AtlanticLiners.com. 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-11.
- ↑ "The New Hamburg-American Liner Vaterland". International Marine Engineering. New York/London: Aldrich Publishing Company. 19 (6): 262–264. June 1914. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ↑ "RMS MAJESTIC". Archived from the original on 13 August 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-28.
- ↑ Braynard, Frank Osborn; Westover, Robert Hudson (2002-01-01). S.S. United States. Turner Publishing Company. p. 80. ISBN 9781563118241.