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The first port of Bremen was the Balge, a narrow branch of the Weser river. In the mid-13th century, on Bremen city's riverside of the main river, a quay was built, called the Schlachte . For about three centuries, both ports were used in parallel, before Balge harbour stopped being used.
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SS Scharnhorst was a Norddeutscher Lloyd ocean liner, launched in 1934, completed in 1935 and made her maiden voyage on 8 May 1935. [6] She was the first big passenger liner built by the Third Reich.
1857 NDL prospectus announcing formation of the company and offering stock for sale. The company was founded by the Bremen merchants Hermann Henrich Meier and Eduard Crüsemann on 20 February 1857, after the dissolution of the New York-based Ocean Steam Navigation Company, a joint German-American enterprise.
After the fire, Bremen was rebuilt by AG Vulcan Stettin, lengthened to 575 feet (175 m), and her tonnage was increased to 11,540 gross register tons (GRT). She reentered service in October 1901. [1] On 20 April 1912, while sailing from Bremen to New York City, Bremen passed through the debris field left by the sinking of RMS Titanic.
The ship was chartered to the United States Mail Steamship Company (U.S. Mail Line) and began passenger service from New York to Bremen in August 1920. When the U.S. Mail Line ran into financial difficulties, SS Susquehanna , along with the other six former German vessels the company had chartered, was seized in April 1921 by the USSB, and ...
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Bremen at Saint Thomas Island in 1968. On July 9, 1959, she was placed on the Bremerhaven – Southampton – Cherbourg – New York City route. In 1960, Bremen carried approximately 28,000 passengers across the Atlantic from Europe to the USA and back again. Beginning in 1960, the Bremen was also used in cruise service to the Caribbean and ...