Imperator-class ocean liner
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The Imperator-class was a series of three large ocean liners designed and built for the Hamburg America Line. Envisaged by HAPAG chairman, Albert Ballin, the three ships - Imperator, launched in 1912;
Photograph of the three Imperator-class liners from left to right: SS Leviathan (former SS Vaterland), RMS Majestic (former SS Bismarck), and RMS Berengaria (former SS Imperator), photographed side by side in Southampton, England after being handed over to the Allies as World War I reparations.
SS Imperator
RMS Berengaria photographed during the 1920s.
SS Vaterland at sea, 1914
Hamburg America Line
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The Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft, known in English as the Hamburg America Line, was a transatlantic shipping enterprise established in Hamburg, in 1847. Among those involved i
Imperator-class ocean liner
…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 Ballin, the three ships - Imperator, launched in 1912; Vaterland, launched in 1913; and Bismarck, launched…
1899 ad in The Mail and Express (New York City)
Postcard of the view from the water of the Hamburg-American Steamship Lines docks in Hoboken, New Jersey, in about 1910
Postcard from the Hamburg-American Line steamship König Friedrich August, issued 1911
Advertisement for the Hamburg-American Line (1930)