Majestic) all of which were seized as war reparations. Imperator served for 14 months on HAPAG's transatlantic route, until the outbreak of World War I, after...
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The Imperator-class was a series of three large ocean liners designed and built for the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). Envisaged by HAPAG chairman, Albert...
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Hamburg America Line (category Transatlantic shipping companies)
(HAPAG), known in English as the Hamburg America Line, was a transatlantic shipping enterprise established in Hamburg, in 1847. Among those involved...
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RMS Majestic (1914) (category Imperator-class ocean liners)
of the upper deck. On June 10, 1913, the first ship of the Imperator-class trio, SS Imperator, made its maiden voyage. The second, a slightly larger liner...
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Cunard Line (category Transatlantic shipping companies)
Hamilton, Bermuda. In 1839, Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract, and the next year formed the British and North...
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Ocean liner (redirect from Transatlantic liner)
Line's Olympic-class ships. The first to be completed, in 1913 was SS Imperator. She was followed by SS Vaterland in 1914. The construction of the third...
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RMS Olympic and the RMS Titanic and was intended to enter service as a transatlantic passenger liner. She was operated as a hospital ship from 1915 until...
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"largest cruise ship" as the industry has shifted to cruising rather than transatlantic ocean travel. While some of these modern cruise ships were later expanded...
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large Imperator-class ocean liners Imperator, Vaterland and the uncompleted Bismarck. In the 1920s HAPAG re-established a fleet of transatlantic liners...
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fears were soon to be realized; the company's flagships, the triumvirate Imperator, Vaterland and Bismarck, were ceded as war prizes to Great Britain and...
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Olympic-class liners, Olympic, Titanic and Britannic, to operate a weekly transatlantic express service. However Titanic was lost on her maiden voyage after...
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same dimensions but higher gross register tonnage, before the German SS Imperator went into service in June 1913. Olympic also held the title of the largest...
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de France was a French luxury ocean liner that plied the prestigious transatlantic route between Europe and New York from 1927 through to 1958. She was...
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000-passenger capacity was surpassed in 1913 by the 4,234-passenger SS Imperator. The ship having five funnels (which were later reduced to four) was unusual...
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included the White Star Line's RMS Titanic, Hamburg America Line's SS Imperator, and later the French Line's SS Normandie. In most cases there was only...
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hospital ship, notably as part of the Dardanelles Campaign. Returned to transatlantic passenger service in 1920, she operated alongside Mauretania and the...
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Norddeutscher Lloyd (category Transatlantic shipping companies)
White Star Line. The HAPAG introduced three new vessels of the Imperator class, Imperator, Vaterland, and Bismarck, with a size of 50,000 GRT. The NDL responded...
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flag, at 34,569 tons. Although not so large as the Olympic-class or the Imperator-class and not intended to challenge the speed record of the Mauretania...
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Retrieved January 15, 2022. Russell, Mark A. "Steamship nationalism: Transatlantic passenger liners as symbols of the German Empire." International Journal...
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White Star Olympic-class capable of 21.5 knots (39.8 km/h) and HAPAG's Imperator class capable of 22.5 knots (41.7 km/h). Even Cunard chose this approach...
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In 1912, Hapag built the first of their "Big Three" ocean liners; the Imperator, followed by its twin Vaterland. A third twin, Bismarck, was under construction...
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SS Vaterland (1913) (category Imperator-class ocean liners)
Hamburg, Germany, as the second of a trio of very large ships of the Imperator class for the Hamburg America Line's trans-Atlantic route. Construction...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art and included works such as Celebes (1921), Ubu Imperator (1923), and Fireside Angel (1937), which is one of Ernst's few definitively...
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of Castile and León, from Alfonso V and Alfonso VI (crowned Hispaniae Imperator) to Alfonso X and Alfonso XI tended to embrace an imperial ideal based...
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München 1999, ISBN 3442755115 (in German) Manuel Fernández Álvarez: Imperator mundi: Karl V. – Kaiser des Heiligen Römischen Reiches Deutscher Nation...
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sunk off County Donegal in 1918. She was designed and launched as the transatlantic liner Statendam, a new flagship for the Holland America Line (NASM)...
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Artists 1937 Drama, Romance Feature W. Howard Greene US Victoria the Great Imperator Film Productions, RKO Radio Pictures 1937 Drama, History Last Reel Freddie...
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SS Pretoria was a transatlantic liner that was launched in Germany in 1897 and spent most of her career with Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). She was the...
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Online. BBC. Retrieved 25 July 2014. "Solo Around Cape Horn – Imperator Publishing". www.imperator-publishing.com. Retrieved 26 February 2017. UK She magazine...
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which a magistrate can effectively enforce his commands", while the term "imperator" was originally an honorific meaning "commander". The title was given...
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