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SS New York
Many ships have been named ''New York'', including: Merchant ships * , a 524-gross-register-ton Long Island Sound steamboat operating between New York and New Haven, Connecticut; later went to the Hudson River as a towboat, abandoned 1875. * , in packet service between New York City and Charleston, South Carolina; later in the Gulf of Mexico, destroyed by a hurricane in 1846 * , a transatlantic passenger liner of Glasgow & New York Steamship Company, wrecked in Scotland in 1858 * , a transatlantic passenger liner of North German Lloyd; converted in 1875 to ship-rigged sailing vessel ''New York'', and wrecked in 1891 * , an excursion steamer of Hudson River Line, destroyed by fire in 1908 * , named ''City of New York'' until 1893; later served in U.S. Navy as USS ''Harvard'' in the Spanish–American War, and as USS ''Plattsburg'' in World War I * , a passenger ferry of the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad destroyed by fire in 1932 * , a seagoing tugboat 1941–1952, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North German Lloyd
Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL; North German Lloyd) was a German shipping company. It was founded by Hermann Henrich Meier and Eduard Crüsemann in Bremen on 20 February 1857. It developed into one of the most important German shipping companies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was instrumental in the economic development of Bremen and Bremerhaven. On 1 September 1970, the company merged with Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) to form Hapag-Lloyd AG. History Establishment of the NDL The German shipping company North German Lloyd (NDL) was founded by the Bremen merchants Hermann Henrich Meier and Eduard Crüsemann on 20 February 1857, after the dissolution of the Ocean Steam Navigation Company, a joint German-American enterprise. The new shipping company had no association with the British maritime classification society Lloyd's Register; in the mid-19th century, "Lloyd" was used as a term for a shipping company (an earlier user of the term in the same context was the Tries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
