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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.
Bremen sought this territory to retain its share of Germany's overseas trade, which was threatened by the silting up of the Weser around the old inland port of Bremen. Bremerhaven (literally in English: Bremer Haven/Harbour ) was founded to be a haven for Bremen's merchant marine, becoming the second harbour for Bremen, despite being 50 km (31 ...
Bremen: Steamship: For Bremen and New York Steam Packet Company. [25] 13 February United Kingdom: Woolwich Dockyard: Challenger: Pearl-class corvette: For Royal Navy. 13 February United Kingdom: Belfast Steam-Ship Building Company Belfast: Norah Greame: Full-rigged ship: For George Bates. [26] [27] 15 February United Kingdom: Messrs. David ...
Diana was a whaling ship built in 1840, in Bremen, Germany.She sailed out of Hull, England.In 1858 a steam engine was installed, making her the first steam-powered whaler to sail from Hull (Tay from Dundee was the first ever, a year earlier).
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Thanks to new sea wharves and anchorage at Bremerhaven, the city became Germany's main port of emigration to the Americas, and an entrepôt for her late developing colonial trade. The Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) was founded in Bremen in 1857 and it later became one of the world's leading shipping companies.
She entered service on the Bremen-Southampton-New York-Baltimore route on 1 June 1867. [citation needed] On 7 August 1870, she ran aground in the Solent at the entrance to the Southampton Water. She was on a voyage from Bremen to New York, United States. She was refloated with assistance from the paddle tug Camel. [2]
The paddle steamer Washington. The Ocean Steam Navigation Company (OSNC or Bremen Line) was a shipping company founded in 1847 in New York City by Edward Mills. [1] It was the first company to be awarded a contract by the US government for the oceanic transportation of mail. [1]