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SS Kiautschou[edit]
1900[edit]
Hamburg America announced the building of 22 new ships for a total of $11,000,000. The largest two would be Deutschland and Kiautschou of 10,200 tons.[1]
1902[edit]
- Sailed from Southampton for New York via Cherbourg on 3 May.[2]
- Sailed from Cherbourg on 4 May for New York.[3]
- Replacing Deutschland, advertised as "New twin screw Mail S. S. Kiautschou, 11,000 tons, 525 feet long, 16½ knots; to sail from New York for Hamburg via Plymouth and Cherbourg on 15 May.[4]
- Under command of Captain Luneschloss; arrived and sailed from Plymouth on 23 May for Cherbourg and Hamburg.[5]
- Arrived in Cherbourg on 24 May.[6]
- Arrived in Hamburg on 25 May.[7]
Notable passengers[edit]
SS Princess Alice[edit]
1904[edit]
- First NDL arrival of Prinzess Alice. NDL American president Gustav H. Schwab hosted a luncheon for newspaper men on the ship; comparisons to other ships; description of interior, power-plant; routes North Atlantic during high season[8]
1905[edit]
- Prinzess Alice spotted Apache, one of the yachts competing for the Kaiser's Cup race, on 20 May 65 nautical miles (120 km) east of the Nantucket Lightship.[9]
- Arrived Cherbourg from New York via Plymouth for Bremen, 8 July.[10]
1907[edit]
- Advertised as sailing on Thursdays as part of the "Twin-Screw Passenger Service" from New York to Plymouth, Cherbourg, and Bremen.[11]
1909[edit]
- Prinzess Alice one of the NDL ships carrying Marconi wireless, after RMS Republic (1903) disaster.[12]
- Prinzess Alice aground at Fort Wadsworth.[13] (full article)
- Prinzess Alice ashore (first time) off Fort Wadsworth, details (early) re-float efforts, some passengers, some ships involved (USRC Seneca).[14][15] (full article)
- Prinzess Alice refloated (first time) by ten steam tugs and her own engines.[16] (blurb)
- Prinzess Alice aground while passing through Ambrose Channel off Sandy Hook on 28 May (after re-floating from overnight grounding).[17] (blurb)
- More detail of freeing of Prinzess Alice, collision with other liner, reloading of cargo, second grounding.[18]
- Brief details of both groundings.[19] (blurb)
- Details of Isaac Moss suicide from Prinzess Alice[20] (article)
Notable passengers[edit]
1905[edit]
- Howard Atwood Kelly, Baltimore physician, one of founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital, sailed on 23 May 1905.[21]
- Hamilton Wright Mabie, author, sailed from New York with wife on 29 June 1905.[22]
1906[edit]
- Charles Frederick Millspaugh, botanist, returned in June 1906.[23]
1907[edit]
- Alfred Thayer Mahan returned on 20 June[24]
- Senator Augustus Octavius Bacon (D-GA), sailed for Europe on 1 August.[25]
References[edit]
- ^ "Hamburg-American fleet". The New York Times. 1900-03-25. p. 14.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help);|format=requires|url=(help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Shipping and Foreign Mails". The New York Times. 1902-05-04. p. 23.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help);|format=requires|url=(help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Shipping and Foreign Mails". The New York Times. 1902-05-06. p. 5.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help);|format=requires|url=(help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Hamburg America…". The New York Times. 1902-05-11. p. 25.
{{cite news}}:|format=requires|url=(help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Shipping and Foreign Mails". The New York Times. 1902-05-24. p. 13.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help);|format=requires|url=(help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Movements of ocean steamers". The Washington Post. 1902-05-25. p. 6.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Movements of ocean steamers". The Washington Post. 1902-05-26. p. 2.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Luncheon on a liner". The New York Times. 1904-04-06. p. 16.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help);|format=requires|url=(help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Racing yachts sighted". The Washington Post. 1905-05-21. p. 1.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Movements of ocean steamers". The Washington Post. 1905-07-09. p. 3.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "North German Lloyd". Scientific American. XCVII (23). New York: Munn & Company: 427. 1907-12-07. ISSN 0036-8733. OCLC 1775222.
{{cite journal}}:|format=requires|url=(help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Wireless on more ships". The New York Times. 1909-02-12. p. 1.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help);|format=requires|url=(help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "The Prinzess Alice aground in the bay". The New York Times. 1909-05-28. p. 1.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help);|format=requires|url=(help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Big liner stuck in mud". Chicago Daily Tribune. 1909-05-28. p. 1.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Big liner is aground". The Washington Post. 1909-05-28. p. 1.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Steamer Prinzess Alice is floated". The Christian Science Monitor. 1909-05-28. p. 6.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Prinzess Alice aground". The Atlanta Constitution. 1909-05-29. p. 7.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Prinzess Alice sails". The New York Times. 1909-05-29. p. 2.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help);|format=requires|url=(help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Big steamer twice ashore". The Washington Post. 1909-05-29. p. 1.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Moss jumped from steamer". The New York Times. 1909-06-05. p. 1.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help);|format=requires|url=(help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Town & Country Calender: Arrivals and Departures"". Town & Country. 3080. New York: Stuyvesant Corporation: 6. 1905-05-27. ISSN 0040-9952. OCLC 5878257.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Town & Country Calender: Arrivals and Departures"". Town & Country. 3086. New York: Stuyvesant Corporation: 3. 1905-07-08. ISSN 0040-9952. OCLC 5878257.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Ocean travelers". The New York Times. 1906-06-20. p. 14.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help);|format=requires|url=(help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Rear Admiral Mahan returns". The Washington Post. 1907-06-21. p. 3.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Senator Bacon off for Europe". The Washington Post. 1907-08-02. p. 3.
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