#hapag

[teilzami]

Rest of the post-war Ballin quartet - Hamburg and New York

Post-war HAPAG and NDL liners were good friends, Columbus and Albert Ballin weren't rivals, so weren't their younger. Hamburg and Berlin (III) were launched in one year what led the beginning for their life long friendship. Both of them are too pure for this world. New York won't let anyone hurt her siblings and their friends!

However, world changes. Germany changes. New regime begins. HAPAG and NDL start to drift apart because of different worldviews. At least their leading liners' different worldviews. Young Bremen and Europa hadn't that much touch with HAPAG ships

Once new World War starts in 1939, New York has no choice but go to Murmansk, USSR, to avoid being captured. It was impossible to not notice the biggest German ship when she arrives. Bremen is also there.

[bigshipfanatic]

The S.S. Reliance was built in 1914 in Bremerhaven, Germany, and originally named the Johann Heinrich Burchard. During the Great War she was sold to the Dutch Koninklijke Hollandsche Lloyd to replace the Tubantia, which was sunk by a German U-boat. In early 1920 she steamed to Amsterdam and was renamed Limburgia, sailing on the Amsterdam-Buenos Aires route, with and her and her sister, Brabantia, being the largest to do so at the time.

In 1922 she changed hands to the United America Line. She was refitted by Blohm & Voss and was renamed the Reliance. She sailed the New York-Hamburg route, and in 1923 was re-registered in Panama to get around the Prohibition in the US.

In 1926 she was sold to HAPAG and refitted once more, and in 1927 started cruise service, operating solely as a cruise ship starting in 1928, making world cruises each Winter with her sister. From 1934-1937 she was painted white like other cruise ships, had her funnels replaced with larger ones to look more modern, was fitted with new radio and sonar tech and a gyrocompass. She was also made a two-class vessel. In 1938 she was badly damaged by fire and scrapped in 1941.

(Top left: UAL livery and my favorite. Top right: KHL livery. Bottom left: HAPAG. Bottom right: HAPAG cruise livery.)

[happymangospot]

Hapag, the third track on Alamat's Destino album, feels like Say You Love Me's bolder version.

[postingcards]

interiors from the kaiseren auguste victoria, later empress of scotland postcards ca. 1905-1914

[rms-mauretanic]

Great Success 😃👍

[rayenigma]

Shipcember day 3 - HAPAG Liner

Sooo this day wasn't originally in my to-do list but I've been into messing around with my sketches lately so I decided to doodle designs for berengaria and leviathan in their german era. Im a sucker for black and gold, neuron activation.

[fanofi]

Hamburg-Amerika Linie

HAPAG • Nach Nordsmerika

~ Albert Füss (1898-1969), circa 1935

[lonestarbattleship]

"A World Without War" by Elang Erlangga: link

"Sometime in early 1915, the RMS Britannic, the newest of Britain’s majestic liners and the final ship in the White Star Line’s grand Olympic-class ships, passes the Statue of Liberty at the end of her maiden voyage. She is greeted by a retinue of tugs and, in the distance, the new HAPAG liner Bismarck, departing New York on the eastbound leg of her own maiden voyage.

Oh what might have been if only World War I had been averted! Instead, Britannic would serve as a hospital ship and be lost to a mine on this day in 1916, never to sail as a grand Atlantic lady. Bismarck, also incomplete at the start of the war, would lay incomplete until the war ended, but would never sail under the German flag. Instead, she would join White Star as restitution for the lost Britannic, having a successful career as the RMS Majestic."