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Office of the HAPAG General Passenger Agent, 61 Brodway, New York
Office at 61 Brodway, New York
Hamburg America Line Pier, foot of Third St. Hoboken, S/S Wieland
Hamburg America Line Pier, foot of Third St. Hoboken S/S Wieland)
Deck view, Hamburg America Line Steamship ca. 1876
Deck view, Hamburg America Line Steamship ca. 1876
Saloon - First Cabin on the Hamburg America Line steamship Gellert, Herder, Lessing and Wieland
Saloon - First Cabin on the Hamburg America Line steamship Gellert, Herder, Lessing, Wieland)
Saloon - First cabin, Hamburg America Line ca. 1876
Saloon - First cabin, Hamburg America Line ca. 1876
Saloon - Second Cabin, Hamburg America Line ca. 1876
Saloon - Second Cabin, Hamburg America Line ca. 1876
Steerage accommodation, Hamburg America Line ca. 1876
Steerage accommodation, Hamburg America Line ca. 1876
Hamburg America Line landing stage in Hoboken, N. J.
Hamburg America Line landing stage in Hoboken
moltke
S/S Moltke
Passengers arriving New York on the Moltke
Passengers arriving New York on the Moltke
Augusta Victoria
Augusta Victoria, Nordlandfahrten Deutschland(3)
The S/S Deutschland(3)
HAMBURG-AMERICAN PACKET COMPANY.

All the Company's Ocean Steamers have been constructed on the river Clyde by the famous engineers and iron ship builders CAIRD & Co. in Greenock. R. NAPIER & SONS and ALEX. STEPHENS & SONS in Glasgow, and carry the Uniten States and European Mails. They are amnned by 142 mn, distrbuted as follows: 29 deckhands under 4 officers and 9 petty officers; 32 firemen, coalheavers and machinists under 8 engineers, and 57 stewards, cooks, helpers, trimmers etc. The Steamers of this Line leave New York from Hamburg Pier, foot of Third Street, Hoboken, Every Thursday and nearly every alternate Saturday, taking passengers for PLYMOUTH, LONDON, CHERBOURG, PARIS and HAMBURG. This arrangement renders the Line a means of direct transportation to England, France and Germany, and at the same time accommodates travelers an route for the Continent, who would avoid the discomforts of crossing the English Channel.

The Railway transit from Plymouth to London occupies only 6 hours from Cherbourg to Paris 8 hours. Returning the Steamers of the Hamburg Line leave Hamburg Every Wednesday and Havre Every Saturday. Passengers will be forwarded from Southampton or London to havre at the Company's expense. The time by rail from Paris to Havre being only 4 hours, a direct communication between France and the United States is formed, which offers every desirable facilities for Passengers coming from Paris or any other part of the Continent.

The First Cabin is fitted up in magnificent style-the walls are tastefully ornamented, seats and lounge are made in whatever upholsrers' and cabinetmakers' handicraft can provide. The space under the seats of the sofas in the different staterooms is 14 1/2 inches high. The staterooms, of which a large number are located amidships, are 7 to 9 feet in width. A Ladies Sitting-room and a fine Promenade Deck add to the comfort of these steamers.

The Second Cabin is on the same deck forward of the First Cabin; it is comfortably furnished and also heated by steam; the surrounding staterooms are well lighted and ventilated. Both Saloons have large staterooms set apart for ladies traveling alone, and Conversation and Smoking Rooms, elegantly fitted up, offering to gentlemen al the opportunities for social intercourse.

The Steerage is situated directly below the Second Cabin. It is spacious, light and well ventilated, and has separate compartments for single men, women and families. An efficient corps of stewards and servants, speaking several languages, is ready under the superintendence of experienced Chief Stewards and Stewardesses to attend the wants of the passengers. The Kitchens are on the upper deck, thereby avoiding odors generally so obnoxious to passengers. An experienced physician is attached to every steamer. For medical attendance and medicines no charge will be made. During preceding years the Steamers of the Hamburg-American Packet Company have maintained their splendid record for safety, speed and comfort, and proved themselves worthy of high repute in which they are held by the traveling public.

(From a booklet issued by the line about 1876)

The Hamburg America Line was the first German transatlantic steamship line, established in 1847. The people behind the foundation of the company was ship broker August Bolten, ship owner Ferdinand Laiesz and banker Adolph Halle. With support from other Hamburg business leaders they founded the company under the name Hamburg Amerikanische Packetfahrt Actien Gesellschaft (HAPAG). In Norway this company was first referred to as August Bolten's steamship line.

Many Norwegian emigrants traveled via Germany on their way to North America. This was not the most common route, as most Norwegian emigrants traveled via Britain. The majority of Norwegians traveling on the German ships, had to make the first step of their voyage on a feeder ship to Germany. There were regular routes between Norwegian ports and the German ports of Hamburg and Bremen. The main transatlantic companies operating routes between German ports and North America was the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG), and the North German Lloyd (Norddeutcher Loyd). The North German Lloyd (NDL) had a service between Bremen and New York.

By 1896 the line owned a fleet of 102 vessels, with an aggregate of 269,502 tons. It was at the time the only line maintaining a twin-screw express service between the continents of Europe and America. The company maintained nineteen separate steamship services, besides winter and summer cruises with twin-screw express steamships. The Hamburg America Line operated routes between Hamburg and New York. Some years their ships also called at Southampton to take on passengers. The Southampton service was not very popular with the British companies. For several years the Hamburg America Line also operated a route between Stettin, Copenhagen and New York. This route was in sharp competition to the Danish company, the Thingvalla Line, later called the Scandinavian America Line. The Hamburg America Line also maintained a direct service between Norwegian ports and America, in the years 1893 - 1895. Their ships had departures from the ports of (Christiania) and Christiansand, mainly from Christiansand. They operated in Norway under the name Scandia Line. The service was taken up again in the summer of 1903, and continued till the autumn of 1904.

The fleet of twin-screw express steamships of the company which operated the service between New York to Plymouth, Cherbourg and Hamburg, and from Hamburg, Southampton, and Cherbourg to New York, were the Auguste Victoria and the Furst Bismark, built by the Vulcan Shipbuilding Company at Stettin, the Columbia, built by Laird Bros., in Birkenhead, and the Normannia built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding Company, in Glasgow. With these vessels the company maintained a weekly express service, offering the public the convenience of traveling between America and the European Continent with absolute safety, in the shortest possible time, and with a degree of comfort that was unexcelled.



FROM A 1896 BOOKLET:
"The problem which the owners and designers intended to solve in building these magnificent vessels was to produce ships which would offer absolute safety, and at the same time, be able to make the swiftest voyages with the greatest comfort to the passengers. To realize this, they spared neither trouble nor expense, and have now the satisfaction of seeing before them, in heir new steamships, models of the latest phase if marine architecture, advancing far beyond anything previously attempted; as beautiful in outline as they arc practical in their interior arrangements, and absolutely perfect in the three requirements of modern ocean travel, safety, Speed and Comfort.

What first strikes the observer are the graceful lines which run from the sharp, straight, stem to the well-rounded stern. Three funnels rise from the hurricane deck, which, although of huge dimensions, only serve to bring out the symmetry of the whole. The COLUMBIA has three masts, the AGUSTE VICTORIA, FURST BISMARCK and NORMANNIA two, which are low and without yards, so as to offer the least resistance. So beautiful are the lines of these ships that it is difficult for the spectator to realize their immense size. These leviathans have a length of 465 to 525 feet, a width of 56 to 58 feet, and a depth of 38 to 40 feet; are of 7 578 to 8 874 tons register, and their engines develop the force of 23 000 to 16 000 horses. They have five decks, constructed solidly of steel and teak wood, the upper decks ending in strong turtle-backs at the bow and stern. These steamships are the largest and fastest ships of the German merchant marine. The first consideration which the builders had in view was that of absolute safety, and they have built ships which are practically unsinkable. Many novel features have been introduced to bring this about, of which the principal ones are here set forth.

The new vessels have their whole working machinery duplicated. There are two distinct sets of boilers, two engines, two shafts, and two screws, both sets working independently of each other, and separated by a longitudinal bulkhead dividing the vessel into two non-communicating halves, each of which is fully equipped to propel the ship. This is the great principle of twin-screw steamships and the extraordinary degree of safety secured by this system is obvious, for an accident to one side of the ship can in nowise affect the other, whose machinery will continue to work and propel the ship with perfect ease and at a high rate of speed.

Each side of the ship is again subdivided into numerous watertight compartments, which do not communicate with each other. The hull of the ship has a double bottom, the space between being divided into chambers, which can be filled with water or emptied by means of automatic pumps, thus increasing or decreasing the draught at will, and guarding against accidents from grounding. The enormous engines of 6 000 to 8 000 horse-power each. The screws are of manganese bronze, with three or four blades.

The Hamburg-American Line holds the record for fastest time across the Atlantic from New York to Southampton and the continent. The best time accomplished was 6 days 10 hours 32 minutes between New York and Southampton. The landing arrangements at Plymouth are considered superior to those of any other port in England, and the Hamburg-American Line's special trains starting from the landing place await the passengers there. During past years these steamships have maintained a regular fast weekly express service between New York, Southampton, and Hamburg, and lately between New York, Plymouth, Cherbourg and Hamburg, taking passengers to London within 7 days, while the actual average ocean passage is reduced to a little more than 6 days.

Passengers leaving New York on Thursday are landed in Plymouth and Cherbourg on the following Thursday, reaching Paris and London on the same day, thus bringing them from New York to London in less than a week (it has been done in 6 days 14 hours, a feat not equaled by any other line). This shows the wonderful convenience which these steamships offer to the travelling public.

The fastest runs were about 20 ¼ knots per hour, which is equal to 2318 English miles, and exceeds the speed of transcontinental trains."

For passengers traveling on HAPAG ships via Hamburg the Norwegian Emigration Protocols will only give the name of the ship that brought the emigrants from Norway to Hamburg. Note that some Norwegians traveling on German ships would choose a rout from Norway to Denmark by ship, and from Denmark to Germany by train, the Hamburg America Line also called at English ports. See also Scandia Line.

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Go here to read the passenger list for the Gothia leaving Christiansand on 28th July 1894

Fleet list:
 TypeName of ship  SortYear Built   SortConstruction Shipyard   SortTonnage (burthen)   Sort
  S/SMarsala    
  S/SSorrento    
  S/STaormina    
  S/SOceana (2)1912 Bremer Vulcan 0 gross 
  shipDeutschland (2)1858  867 gross 
  S/SAllemannia (2)1881 Dobie & Co. 1 846 gross 
  S/SRhenania (2)1880 Dobie & Co. 1 846 gross 
  S/SAlbingia (1)1881 Dobie & Co. 1 848 gross 
  S/SCremon1871 James Laing & Co. 1 949 gross 
  S/SDalmatia1871 James Laing & Co. 1 949 gross 
  S/SDalecarlia1882 Reiherstieg Schiffswerfte & Maschinenfab 1 972 gross 
  S/SHungaria1884 Reiherstieg Schiffswerfte & Maschinenfab 2 008 gross 
  S/SHammonia (1)1855 Caird & Co. 2 026 gross 
  S/SAustralia1881 C. Mitchell & Co. 2 119 gross 
  S/SGermania (1)1863 Caird & Co. 2 123 gross 
  S/SBorussia1855 Caird & Co. 2 131 gross 
  S/SPolynesia (1)1881 C. Mitchell & Co. 2 196 gross 
  S/SSlavonia1883 Raylton Dixon & Co. 2 215 gross 
  S/SAmalfi1881 M. Pearse & Co. 2 345 gross 
  S/SGothia1884 Raylton Dixon & Co. 2 381 gross 
  S/SSteinhoft1889 Reiherstieg Schiffswerfte & Maschinenfab 2 404 gross 
  S/SCanadia1889 Reiherstieg Schiffswerfte & Maschinenfab 2 404 gross 
  S/SBavaria1856 Caird & Co. 2 405 gross 
  S/SScotia1890 Charles Connell & Co. 2 558 gross 
  S/SGrimm1890 Charles Connell & Co. 2 558 gross 
  S/SHispania1890 J. C. Tecklenborg 2 578 gross 
  S/SWandrahm1890 J. C. Tecklenborg 2 578 gross 
  S/SHercynia1889 Armstrong, Mitchell & Co. 2 630 gross 
  S/SBarmen1889 Armstrong, Mitchell & Co. 2 646 gross 
  S/SBolivia1889 Armstrong, Mitchell & Co. 2 646 gross 
  S/SAustria1857 Caird & Co. 2 684 gross 
  S/SSaxonia1857 Caird & Co. 2 684 gross 
  S/SCalifornia1883 Armstrong, Mitchell & Co. 2 690 gross 
  S/STeutonia1856 Caird & Co. 2 693 gross 
  S/SAllemannia (1)1865 C. A. Day & Co 2 695 gross 
  S/SPolaria1882 C. Mitchell & Co. 2 724 gross 
  S/SChemnitz1889 Alexander Stephen & Sons 2 758 gross 
  S/SVandalia1871 Caird & Co. 2 810 gross 
  S/SBaumwall1890 Blohm & Voss 2 811 gross 
  S/SChristiania1890 Blohm & Voss 2 811 gross 
  S/SVirginia1891 Blohm & Voss 2 820 gross 
  S/SVenetia1891 Reiherstieg Schiffswerfte & Maschinenfab 2 822 gross 
  S/SSolingen1889 Reiherstieg Schiffswerfte & Maschinenfab 2 844 gross 
  S/SGermania (2)1870 Caird & Co. 2 876 gross 
  S/SStubbenhuk1890 Charles Connell & Co. 2 922 gross 
  S/SSicilia1890 Charles Connell & Co. 2 922 gross 
  S/SEssen1889 Flensburger Schiffbau 2 939 gross 
  S/SRhenania (1)1873 Caird & Co. 2 989 gross 
  S/SHammonia (2)1866 Caird & Co. 3 035 gross 
  S/SCimbria1867 Caird & Co. 3 037 gross 
  S/SFranconia1872 Caird & Co. 3 098 gross 
  S/SThuringia (1)1870 Caird & Co. 3 133 gross 
  S/SHolsatia (1)1868 Caird & Co. 3 134 gross 
  S/SSilesia1869 Caird & Co. 3 142 gross 
  S/SGeorgia1890 Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd. 3 143 gross 
  S/SPickhuben1890 Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd. 3 143 gross 
  S/SWestphalia (1)1868 Caird & Co. 3 158 gross 
  S/SCheruskia1890 Robert Stephenson & Co. Ltd 3 250 gross 
  S/SMarkomannia1890 Edwards Shipbuilding Co. 3 335 gross 
  S/SPommerania1873 Caird & Co. 3 382 gross 
  S/SGoethe1873 Robert Napier & Sons 3 408 gross 
  S/SBohemia (1)1881 A. & J. Inglis 3 410 gross 
  S/SRugia (1)1882 AG Vulcan 3 467 gross 
  S/SSchiller1873 Robert Napier & Sons 3 490 gross 
  S/SHerder1873 Alexander Stephen & Sons 3 494 gross 
  S/SLessing1874 Alexander Stephen & Sons 3 496 gross 
  S/SFrisia1872 Caird & Co. 3 500 gross 
  S/SWieland1874 Alexander Stephen & Sons 3 507 gross 
  S/SGellert1874 Alexander Stephen & Sons 3 533 gross 
  S/SRhaetia (1)1882 Reiherstieg Schiffswerfte & Maschinenfab 3 553 gross 
  S/SItalia1889 Armstrong, Mitchell & Co. 3 564 gross 
  S/SSuevia1874 Caird & Co. 3 609 gross 
  S/SMeteor1904 Blohm & Voss 3 613 gross 
  S/SKlopstock1874 J. & G. Thomson & Co. 3 659 gross 
  S/SOregon1882 Charles Connell & Co. 3 672 gross 
  S/SSarnia1882 Charles Connell & Co. 3 728 gross 
  S/SMoravia1883 A. & J. Inglis 3 739 gross 
  S/SAlbano1886 Harland & Wolff 3 747 gross 
  S/SRussia1889 Laird Bros 3 908 gross 
  S/SDania1889 AG Vulcan 4 076 gross 
  S/SRavenna1901 N. Odero & Co. 4 101 gross 
  S/SScandia1889 AG Vulcan 4 243 gross 
  S/SHammonia (3)1881 J. & G. Thomson & Co. 4 247 gross 
  S/SPrinzessin Victoria Luise1901 Blohm & Voss 4 409 gross 
  S/SPallanza1891 C. S. Swan & Hunter 4 606 gross 
  S/SAllemannia (3)1892 Harland & Wolff 4 630 gross 
  S/SAlbingia (2)1893 Harland & Wolff 4 630 gross 
  S/SPrinz August Wilhelm1902 Flensburger Schiffbau 4 733 gross 
  S/SPrinz Joachim1903 Flensburger Schiffbau 4 760 gross 
  S/SPisa1896 Alexander Stephen & Sons 4 967 gross 
  S/SAsturia1896 Palmer‘s Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd. 5 285 gross 
  S/SArcadia1896 Harland & Wolff 5 442 gross 
  S/SBarcelona1896 Harland & Wolff 5 446 gross 
  S/SAragonia1897 Flensburger Schiffbau 5 446 gross 
  S/SArabia1896 Harland & Wolff 5 446 gross 
  S/SAndalusia1896 Palmer‘s Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd. 5 457 gross 
  S/SAdria1896 Palmer‘s Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd. 5 458 gross 
  S/SArmenia1896 Palmer‘s Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd. 5 458 gross 
  S/SAmbria1896 Flensburger Schiffbau 5 463 gross 
  S/SAlesia1896 Flensburger Schiffbau 5 476 gross 
  S/SAlexandria1900 Palmer‘s Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd. 5 692 gross 
  S/SAcilia1900 Palmer‘s Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd. 5 693 gross 
  S/SCap Frio1899 Reiherstieg Schiffswerfte & Maschinenfab 5 732 gross 
  S/SArtemisia1901 Palmer‘s Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd. 5 739 gross 
  S/SAthesia1899 Reiherstieg Schiffswerfte & Maschinenfab 5 751 gross 
  S/SAbessinia1900 Palmer‘s Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd. 5 753 gross 
  S/SPersia1894 Harland & Wolff 5 857 gross 
  S/SPrussia (1)1893 Harland & Wolff 5 965 gross 
  S/SPolynesia (2)1904  6 022 gross 
  S/SPrinz Oskar1902 Bremer Vulcan 6 026 gross 
  S/SPrinz Adalbert1902 Bremer Vulcan 6 030 gross 
  S/SRhenania (3)1904 Bremer Vulcan 6 403 gross 
  S/SBadenia1902 Furness, Withy & Co. 6 416 gross 
  S/SSilvia1901 Flensburger Schiffbau 6 506 gross 
  S/SAssyria1898 J. C. Tecklenborg 6 581 gross 
  S/SRugia (2)1905 Bremer Vulcan 6 598 gross 
  S/SRhaetia (2)1904 Bremer Vulcan 6 600 gross 
  S/SPatria1894 AG Vulcan 7 118 gross 
  S/SPhoenicia1894 Blohm & Voss 7 155 gross 
  S/SColumbia1889 Laird Bros 7 241 gross 
  S/SPalatia1894 AG Vulcan 7 326 gross 
  S/SBosnia1899 Palmer‘s Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd. 7 436 gross 
  S/SAugusta Victoria1881 AG Vulcan 7 661 gross 
  S/SAuguste Victoria1881 AG Vulcan 7 661 gross 
  S/SOceana (1)1890 William Denny & Co. 7 859 gross 
  S/SAntonina1898 Blohm & Voss 8 099 gross 
  S/SCorcovado1907 Germania Werft 8 099 gross 
  S/SYpiranga1908 Germania Werft 8 142 gross 
  S/SNormannia (2)1890 Fairfield Shipbuilding & Eng. Co. Ltd. 8 242 gross 
  S/SFurst Bismarck (2)1905 Fairfield Shipbuilding & Eng. Co. Ltd. 8 332 gross 
  S/SBohemia (2)1902 Harland & Wolff 8 370 gross 
  S/SFurst Bismarck (1)1890 AG Vulcan 8 430 gross 
  S/SToledo1914 Reiherstieg Schiffswerfte & Maschinenfab 8 611 gross 
  S/SWurttemberg1921 Bremer Vulcan 8 829 gross 
  S/SBayern (2)1921 Bremer Vulcan 8 917 gross 
  S/SBelgravia1899 Blohm & Voss 10 155 gross 
  S/SBatavia1899 Blohm & Voss 10 178 gross 
  S/SBulgaria1898 Blohm & Voss 10 237 gross 
  S/SBrasilia1897 Harland & Wolff 10 336 gross 
  S/SHamburg (1)1899 AG Vulcan 10 532 gross 
  S/SKiautschou1900 AG Vulcan 10 911 gross 
  S/SThuringia (4)1922 Howaldtswerke 11 343 gross 
  S/SWestphalia (3)1923 Howaldtswerke 11 343 gross 
  S/SBlucher1902 Blohm & Voss 12 334 gross 
  S/SMoltke1901 Blohm & Voss 12 335 gross 
  S/SKaiser Friedrich1897 F. Schichau 12 480 gross 
  S/SPretoria1897 Blohm & Voss 12 800 gross 
  S/SGraf Waldersee1898 Blohm & Voss 12 830 gross 
  S/SPennsylvania1896 Harland & Wolff 12 891 gross 
  S/SPatricia1899 AG Vulcan 13 023 gross 
  S/SCincinnati1908 F. Schichau 16 339 gross 
  S/SHansa (2)1900 AG Vulcan 16 502 gross 
  S/SVictoria Luise1900 AG Vulcan 16 502 gross 
  S/SDeutschland (3)1900 AG Vulcan 16 502 gross 
  M/SMilwaukee1929 Blohm & Voss 16 699 gross 
  M/SSt. Louis1928 Bremer Vulcan 16 732 gross 
  S/SCleveland1908 Blohm & Voss 16 960 gross 
  S/SPresident Grant1903 Harland & Wolff 18 072 gross 
  S/SPresident Lincoln1903 Harland & Wolff 18 084 gross 
  S/SReliance1914 J. C. Tecklenborg 19 582 gross 
  S/SResolute1914 AG Weser 19 653 gross 
  S/SDeutschland (4)1923 Blohm & Voss 20 602 gross 
  S/SAlbert Ballin1922 Blohm & Voss 20 815 gross 
  S/SHansa (3)1922 Blohm & Voss 20 815 gross 
  S/SHamburg (2)1925 Blohm & Voss 21 133 gross 
  S/SNew York1926 Blohm & Voss 21 455 gross 
  S/SAmerika1905 Harland & Wolff 22 225 gross 
  S/SKaiserin Auguste Victoria1905 AG Vulcan 24 581 gross 
  S/SImperator1912 AG Vulcan 51 969 gross 
  S/SVaterland1913 Blohm & Voss 54 282 gross 

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