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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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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).
SS Bremen depicted on a German postage stamp. Transatlantic passenger crossings became faster, safer, and more reliable with the advent of steamships in the 19th century. The wooden-hulled, paddle-wheel SS Great Western built in 1838 is recognized as the first purpose-built transatlantic steamship, on a scheduled run back and forth from Bristol to New York City.
List of shipwrecks: 2 October 1858 Ship State Description Devon United Kingdom: The brig foundered in the North Sea 6 nautical miles (11 km) east of the Dudgeon Lightship (Trinity House) with the loss of one of her six crew. Survivors were rescued by Charles ( United Kingdom). [4] [5] Emily United Kingdom
Scrapped at Hamburg, Germany in 1952 S.S. St. Louis in the port of Hamburg: SS Saint Paul: 1895 Scrapped in 1923 S.S. Saint Paul near the city of New York, circa 1895. NS Savannah: 1959 Preserved as a museum ship in Baltimore, Maryland SS Statendam: 1924 Caught Fire in Rotterdam on May 11, 1940. Scrapped at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht three months later.
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.