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German Luxury Ocean Liners - From Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse to Aidastella (Hardcover)
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German Luxury Ocean Liners - From Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse to Aidastella (Hardcover)
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From the 1890s, the German shipping lines had begun to build the
fastest and most luxurious liners. It had started when Kaiser
Wilhelm had visited Spithead and been transported on White Star
Line's Teutonic and had mentioned that Germany must have ships like
this. The first four stacker, the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, had
been named in his honour and the ships that followed were faster
and more magnificent than the last. Introducing the Ritz Carlton
restaurants aboard ship as well as other luxuries, the German ships
were soon winning the Blue Riband from the British shipping lines.
Each year a new German triumph would emerge from the shipyards in
Bremerhaven or Hamburg and it took almost a decade for White Star
and Cunard to catch up. Even as Titanic was sinking, Germany was
building a huge ship a full 12,000 tons larger. It was to launch
the following week. World War One stifled the German merchant
marine and post war many ships were taken by the Allies as war
reparation. The 1930s saw the triumph of the Bremen and Europa and
the post war years the decline of the world's passenger liner
fleet. Germany was not exempt but a new breed of cruise ships, many
built by Meyer Werft, soon saw the German cruise industry
established. Nils Schwerdtner looks at the growth of the German
passenger fleet, the important Hamburg Amerika and North German
Lloyd lines, as well as the growth of modern day cruising in this
definitive book.
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