Hamburg America Line

Hamburg America Line
Native name
Hamburg-Amerikanische Paketfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft
IndustryShipping
Founded1847
Founder
  • Albert Ballin (Director General)
  • Adolph Godeffroy
  • Ferdinand Laeisz
  • Carl Woermann
  • August Bolten
Defunct1 September 1970
FateMerged with Norddeutscher Lloyd
SuccessorHapag-Lloyd
Headquarters
Hamburg
,
Germany

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.

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.

References

  1. ↑ "Imperator". AtlanticLiners.com. 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-11.
  2. ↑ "The New Hamburg-American Liner Vaterland". International Marine Engineering. 19 (6). New York/London: Aldrich Publishing Company: 262–264. June 1914. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  3. ↑ "RMS MAJESTIC". Archived from the original on 13 August 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-28.
  4. ↑ Braynard, Frank Osborn; Westover, Robert Hudson (2002-01-01). S.S. United States. Turner Publishing Company. p. 80. ISBN 9781563118241.

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