Despite omnipresent rumours of imminent war, the flagship of the Norddeutscher Lloyd, the express steamer BREMEN (IV), left Bremerhaven on 22 August 1939 for her 187th round trip to New York. After scheduled stops in Southampton and Cherbourg, the number of passengers on board had risen to more than 1,700. Many of them were Americans who saw the BREMEN as their last opportunity to leave Europe before the outbreak of war - a correct assessment, as it turned out. Citing the presence of precisely these passengers as well as the German diplomats among them who were heading towards their posts abroad, Captain Ahrens remained on route to New York even after all German merchant vessels had been ordered to turn around. The ship arrived safely at it...
The maritime-legal manual discussed here appeared during the second half of the eighteenth century i...
In his autobiography Mein Leben bis zum Kriege (Berlin, 1931), the writer Joachim Ringelnatz (real n...
Looking back on extremely modest beginnings as a boatyard in Aumund near Bremen, the Fr. Lürssen boa...
This first-hand report sheds light on a phase in German shipping history in which the end of World W...
In 1908, the "marine minister" of the German Reich, Alfred von Tirpitz, had the Norddeutsche Lloyd's...
With its two turbine-driven express steamers BREMEN and EUROPA, launched in 1929 and 1930 respective...
After World War II, a widely circulated rumour claimed that the type-XXI submarine U 2511 had made a...
The frigate GERMANIA set sail from Hamburg for Brazil in 1824. During the voyage, eight men were acc...
During the first half of the nineteenth century, particularly during the Napoleonic wars and in conn...
To date there is no cohesive historical account of the international development of the auxiliary cr...
In the years immediately following the cessation of operations at the AG "Weser" shipyard of Bremen...
ln 1879, one of the two ships participating in the second German polar expedition, the HANSA, was en...
On 16 February 1894, during a trial run on the "Brandenburg", the new battleship of the Imperial Nav...
From 1897 to 1898, the German Reich under Kaiser Wilhelm II, Bülow and Tirpitz changed the course of...
In the Iiterature concerning maritime history it is taken for granted that for many centuries, a sea...
The maritime-legal manual discussed here appeared during the second half of the eighteenth century i...
In his autobiography Mein Leben bis zum Kriege (Berlin, 1931), the writer Joachim Ringelnatz (real n...
Looking back on extremely modest beginnings as a boatyard in Aumund near Bremen, the Fr. Lürssen boa...
This first-hand report sheds light on a phase in German shipping history in which the end of World W...
In 1908, the "marine minister" of the German Reich, Alfred von Tirpitz, had the Norddeutsche Lloyd's...
With its two turbine-driven express steamers BREMEN and EUROPA, launched in 1929 and 1930 respective...
After World War II, a widely circulated rumour claimed that the type-XXI submarine U 2511 had made a...
The frigate GERMANIA set sail from Hamburg for Brazil in 1824. During the voyage, eight men were acc...
During the first half of the nineteenth century, particularly during the Napoleonic wars and in conn...
To date there is no cohesive historical account of the international development of the auxiliary cr...
In the years immediately following the cessation of operations at the AG "Weser" shipyard of Bremen...
ln 1879, one of the two ships participating in the second German polar expedition, the HANSA, was en...
On 16 February 1894, during a trial run on the "Brandenburg", the new battleship of the Imperial Nav...
From 1897 to 1898, the German Reich under Kaiser Wilhelm II, Bülow and Tirpitz changed the course of...
In the Iiterature concerning maritime history it is taken for granted that for many centuries, a sea...
The maritime-legal manual discussed here appeared during the second half of the eighteenth century i...
In his autobiography Mein Leben bis zum Kriege (Berlin, 1931), the writer Joachim Ringelnatz (real n...
Looking back on extremely modest beginnings as a boatyard in Aumund near Bremen, the Fr. Lürssen boa...