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Red Star Line ships had a black funnel with a white band bearing a five-pointed red star. [1] The house flag was a white burgee with a red star. [1] Poster of the second Belgenland by Henri Cassiers. Most Red Star ships were given names ending in "-land". Notable Red Star ships included: Abbotsford (1873). Chartered from Gourlay Brothers ...
In 1818 the Red Star Line (also known as Red Star Packet Line, New Line, and Second Line) was founded by Byrnes, Trimble & Co. from New York. [4] [5] (It should not be confused with the same-named Belgian/US-American shipping company Red Star Line, whose main ports of call were New York City and Philadelphia in the United States and Antwerp in Belgium).
Transferred from the Red Star Line in 1922. Sold to Italy for scrap as SS Natale. Pittsburgh: 1922: 1922–1925: 16,322: Laid down by Harland & Wolff at Belfast for IMM in 1913, work suspended in due to WWI and completed and launched in 1920 as the Pittsburgh, serving trans-Atlantic routes. Renamed Pennland in 1926 due to IMM"s subsidiary Red ...
Finland was launched on 21 June 1902 by William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, for the Red Star Line of International Mercantile Marine (IMM). She was the sister ship to SS Kroonland, launched four months prior. Finland was 560 feet (170.7 m) long with a beam of 60.2 feet (18.3 m), and had two funnels and four masts.
SS Rhynland was a passenger ship owned by the Red Star Line. She was built in 1879 by Barrow Shipbuilding Company . [ 1 ] The ship was sold to Italy in 1906, renamed Rhyna , and was subsequently scrapped.
In July 1899, the Red Star Line announced plans for the construction of four large steamers. Two ships, Vaderland and Zeeland at John Brown & Company of Clydebank in Scotland, and two others, Kroonland and Finland, were to be built at William Cramp & Sons in Philadelphia. [1]
In this period, he commissioned the construction of a few new ships, including West Point (or Westpoint), that finally sailed under the flag of the Red Star Line. Other Red Star ships included John R. Skeddy (1845), Constellation (1849), Underwriter (1850), Waterloo, John Jay, England, Virginian, Samuel Hicks, Stephen Whitney, United States ...
SS Vaderland was an ocean liner launched in July 1900 for the Red Star Line service between Antwerp and New York. During her passenger career, the ship initially sailed under British registry, but was re-registered in Antwerp in 1903. Vaderland was a sister ship to Zeeland and a near sister ship to Kroonland and Finland.