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MS St. Louis was a diesel-powered ocean liner built by the Bremer Vulkan shipyards in Bremen for Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). She was named after the city of St. Louis , Missouri. She was the sister ship of Milwaukee .
SS St. Louis was a passenger liner built in 1894 and sponsored by the wife of U.S. President Grover Cleveland. She entered merchant service in 1895, operating between New York and Southampton, England. St. Louis was registered in the United States and owned by the International Navigation Company of New York City.
The most infamous example of Canada's immigration policy was the refusal to admit the MS St. Louis, a German ocean liner carrying refugees. [2] Only 5,000 Jewish refugees entered Canada from 1933 until 1945, which the book argues was the worst of any refugee receiving nation in the world. [2]
Jewish Immigrants aboard the SS St. Louis Great Britain , the Netherlands , France , and Belgium had approved the St. Louis refugees to seek temporary residence in their countries. [ 4 ] Dublon and the rest of his family were assigned to live in Belgium and the St. Louis arrived in Antwerp on June 17th, 1939. [ 5 ]
USS St. Louis, a troop transport in commission in 1898, which otherwise served as the civilian passenger liner SS St. Louis (1894) from 1895 to 1918 and from 1919 to 1920 and was in commission again as the troop transport USS Louisville from 1918 to 1919; USS St. Louis (C-20), a protected cruiser in commission from 1906 to 1922
Gustav Schröder (German: [ˈɡʊs.taf ˈʃʁøː,dɐ] ⓘ; 27 September 1885 – 10 January 1959) was a German sea captain most remembered and celebrated for his role in attempting to save 937 German-Jewish passengers on his ship MS St. Louis having sailed from Hamburg to escape Nazis in 1939.
U.S. Mail Steamship's Ohio and Georgia View of the U.S. mail steamship company's premises, at Aspinwall, N.G.. U.S. Mail Steamship Company was a company formed in 1848 by George Law, Marshall Owen Roberts and Bowes R. McIlvaine to assume the contract to carry the U. S. mails from New York City, with stops in New Orleans and Havana, to the Isthmus of Panama for delivery in California.
SS St. Louis (1944), an 18,362-gross register ton container ship of Sea-Land Service active until 1988; an enlarged and rebuilt ship created from the former USS General M. L. Hersey (AP-148), a World War II transport ship of the United States Navy