Amerika Collection

IMPERATOR STEAMSHIP
Liner of the Hamburg-Amerika line - the worlds largest ship in her day: she made only one crossing, then war came, after which she became the Cunarder Berengaria

Zeppelin airship, Hamburg-America Line, luggage tag
Zeppelin Airship, Hamburg-America Line, luggage tag, vibrant blue, yellow and white. Graf Zeppelin flying eastbound, while a HAPAG steamship (Class Milwaukee / St Louis) sails westbound

German ocean tug Hansa of the Hamburg-Amerika Line Date: early 20th century

German steamship Mannheim of the Deutsch-Amerika Line, launched in 1906 Date: early 20th century

505th PIR and 1st Canadian Army Memorial
This double Memorial was erected by C.Hectors, A. van Grinsven and Father Thuring in Klein Amerika on 16 September 1990. The left hand tablet records that, With Europe in peril

Suffragette Militants Smashed Windows
Photograph of the damage inflicted on the plate glass windows of the shipping line Hamburg - Amerika. The building in Cockspur Street was attacked in March 1912 during the W.S.P.Us window smashing

Ship interiors: the drawing room of the Amerika, 1905
The luxurious drawing room of the German steamship " Amerika" of the Hamburg-America Line, as decorated in the Adams style by Waring and Gillow Limited

Ship interiors: the writing room of the Amerika, 1905
The luxurious writing room of the German steamship " Amerika" of the Hamburg-America Line, as decorated in the Empire style by Waring and Gillow Limited

Ship interiors: the main staircase of the Amerika, 1905
The luxurious main staircase of the German steamship " Amerika" of the Hamburg-America Line, as decorated in the Adams style by Waring and Gillow Limited

Maiden voyage of the Vaterland
The maiden voyage of what was at the time the biggest ship in the world: the German Hamburg-Amerika cruise liner, Vaterland

Steamship deutschland
Passenger liner of the Hamburg-Amerika line, passing the Statue of Liberty (note : there were many vessels with this name) Date: 1900

Fixing the Propeller - Hamburg-America Line
Fixing the Propeller for a vessel of the Hamburg-America Line, Germanys largest shipping company at this time. Date: circa 1910s

Poster advertising the Hamburg America Line
Poster advertising Hamburg America Line departures to Canada, showing a cornfield being harvested

SS Berengaria leaving Southampton for Jarrow, 1938
Photograph of the Cunard Liner Berengaria heading out of Southampton, with tugs, to head to Jarrow to be broken up, December 1938

STEAMSHIP LEVIATHAN
Atlantic liner of the United States Lines, formerly the Hamburg-Amerika liner Vaterland, made over as war reparations and reconditioned for 2 million (1924 value !"

STEAMSHIP ROTTERDAM
Built by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, for the Holland- Amerika line, sailing from Southampton to New York

NIEUW AMSTERDAM
Built by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, for the Holland- Amerika line, sailing from Southampton to New York

Steamship Albert Ballin
Atlantic liner of the Hamburg-Amerika Line

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