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Kerr Steamship Company
Kerr Steamship Company, Kerr Company, ran passenger and cargo ships from New York City the Dutch East Indies, Ceylon, Egypt and other ports. Kerr Company was founded in 1916, and was sold to Norton Lilly International in 1994 after a Kerr-Norton joint venture that started in 1981. In the 1920s Kerr Steamship Company was the largest steamship company in the United States. Kerr Steamship Company served during World War I taking supplies to the War. Kerr Steamship Company opened an office at 7 Rue Scribe, Paris and ran dock's at Bordeaux. Later, Kerr Steamship Company opened operations in Marseilles, Chicago, and New Orleans to support the war effort. In the K Line, “K” Line shipping system, the Kerr Steamship Company shipped most and sometimes all the cargo in Atlantic Ocean, "K" Line-Kerr Corporation. In 1994 Kerr Company was the sub-agent for United Arab Shipping Company, and is an agent for Torm West Africa Line, Alliance Navigation, Compagnie Generale Maritime, and Compania C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Kerowlee (1901)
Kerowlee may refer to: Places *Kerowlee, a former spelling of Karauli, a town in the state of Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern si ... in India Ships * USS ''Kerowlee'' (1901), a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919 {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS DeKalb (ID-3010)
USS ''DeKalb'' (ID-3010) was the German mail ship that served during the early part of the First World War as an auxiliary cruiser (''Hilfkreuzer'') in the Imperial German Navy and later after the US entry into the war, as a US Navy troop ship. Post war she returned to civilian service as the US transatlantic liner SS ''Mount Clay''. German civilian service The ship was a North German Lloyd (NDL) mail ship and ocean liner built by AG Vulcan, Stettin, Germany, and launched on 18 June 1904 as . NDL had ordered her for the German Mail route between Germany and the Far East, for which she began her maiden voyage on 13 October. German auxiliary cruiser When the First World War broke out on 1 August 1914 she was in Shanghai, China and was ordered to Tsingtao in the then German Kiaochow Bay concession. There she was quickly converted to an auxiliary cruiser for the Imperial German Navy by transferring the guns and crews of the German gunboats and to ''Prinz Eitel Friedrich''. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Prinz Eitel Friedrich (1904)
SS ''Prinz Eitel Friedrich'' was a German passenger liner which saw service in the First World War as an auxiliary cruiser of the Imperial German Navy. Though largely overlooked, ''Prinz Eitel Friedrich'' was, after , the most successful of Germany’s first wave of auxiliary cruisers. She was able to remain at large for seven months, from August 1914 to March 1915, and sank 11 ships, for a total tonnage of . Early career ''Prinz Eitel Friedrich'' was built for the Norddeutscher Lloyd, a former shipping company of the Hapag-Lloyd, by the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin, in 1904. For the ten years prior to the First World War she served on NDL routes in the Far East. On the eve of war in August 1914 she was at Shanghai, with orders to proceed to the German naval base at Tsingtao for conversion as an auxiliary cruiser (''Hilfskreuzer''). Service history At Tsingtao ''Prinz Eitel Friedrich'' was equipped for her role as a commerce raider, receiving the armaments and crews of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Shoshone (ID-1760)
USS ''Shoshone'' (ID-1760) was a German Empire, German-built cargo liner that the United States Navy chartered during the First World War. She was launched in 1911 for the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) as '. The Kerr Steamship Company bought her in 1917 and renamed her ''Shoshone''. In 1919 she spent six months in the United States Navy, in which she made two round trips to and from French Third Republic, France to repatriate US troops. American Interlake Line bought her in 1920 and renamed her ''Manoa''. Canada Steamship Lines bought her in 1921. In 1926 the Boston Iron & Metal Company bought her and sold her back to HAPAG, who renamed her '. She was scrapped in Weimar Republic, Germany in 1932 or 1933. This was the first of two steamships that HAPAG named '. The second was completed in 1922, seized and renamed in 1940, and sunk in 1943. She was the also second of three steamships that HAPAG named '. The first was her sister ship, which the US seized and renamed in 1917. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Malama
''Milwaukee Bridge'' was a steam cargo ship built in 1918–1919 by Submarine Boat Company of Newark for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) as part of the wartime shipbuilding program of the Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) to restore the nation's Merchant Marine. The vessel was first briefly employed on the East Coast to United Kingdom route in the first two years of her career before being laid up at the end of 1921. In 1927 she was acquired by Matson Navigation Company to operate between California and Hawaii and renamed ''Malama''. On New Year's Day 1942 while ''en route'' to New Zealand under U.S. Army operation with cargo of military supplies she was discovered by Japanese merchant raiders and was scuttled by her crew to prevent capture. Design and construction After the United States entry into World War I, a large shipbuilding program was undertaken to restore and enhance shipping capabilities both of the United States and its Allies. As part of this program, EFC pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Kermoor (1907)
USS ''Kermoor'' was a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919. Construction, early career, acquisition, and commissioning ''Kermoor'' was built in 1907 at Sunderland, England, by JL Thompson and Sons, Ltd as the Austro-Hungarian commercial cargo ship SS ''Morawitz''. Upon the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, she took refuge at Galveston, Texas, in the then- neutral United States to avoid capture or destruction by Allied forces. When the United States took control of all Central Powers merchant ships in its ports in April 1917 when it entered the war on the side of the Allies, it seized German ships and acquired all the Austro-Hungarian merchant ships in its own and other Western Hemisphere ports, although since there was no state of war with Austria-Hungary this was accomplished by purchase. Eight former Austro-Hungarian cargo ships thus became the property of the Kerr Navigation Company of New York City. Kerr Navigation gave them all names beginning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Keresan (ID-1806)
Keres (), also Keresan (), is a Native American language, spoken by the Keres Pueblo people in New Mexico. Depending on the analysis, Keres is considered a small language family or a language isolate with several dialects. The varieties of each of the seven Keres pueblos are mutually intelligible with its closest neighbors. There are significant differences between the Western and Eastern groups, which are sometimes counted as separate languages. Family division In 2007, there was an estimate total of 10,670 speakers. * Eastern Keres: total of 4,580 speakers (1990 census) ** Cochiti Pueblo ''Kotyit dialect'': 600 speakers (2007) ** San Felipe Pueblo ''Katishtya dialect'': 2,340 speakers (2007) **Kewa Pueblo (formally Santo Domingo Pueblo) ''Kewa dialect'': 2,850 speakers (2007) ** Zia Pueblo ''Ts'ia dialect'': 500 speakers (2007) ** Santa Ana Pueblo ''Tamaiya dialect'': 390 speakers (2007) * Western Keres: total of 3,391 speakers (1990 census) ** Acoma Pueblo ''Áakʼu di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Kerkenna (1900)
Kerkenna may refer to: *The Kerkenna Islands, an alternative spelling for the Kerkennah Islands * USS ''Kerkenna'', a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919 {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Kermanshah (ID-1473)
Kermanshah ( fa, کرمانشاه; ) is a city in the Central District of Kermanshah province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. The city is from Tehran in the western part of the country. The 2016 National Census measured the population of the city as 946,651 (2021 estimate 1,047,000). Demographics Population At the time of the 2006 census, the city's population was 784,602 in 202,588 households. The following census in 2011 counted 851,405 people in 242,311 households. The language of the native people in Kermanshah is South Kurdish, but the people of Kermanshah can also speak standard Persian. A minority in the city speak Kermanshahi Persian, a local dialect which differs from standard Persian. The city has the largest Kurdish population in Iran. Kermanshah has a moderate and mountainous climate. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Kerlew (ID-1325)
USS ''Kerlew'' (ID-1325) was a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919. ''Kerlew'' was built in 1906 at Stockton-on-Tees, England, by Craig, Taylor and Company, Ltd. Prior to World War I, she served as the Austro-Hungarian commercial cargo ship ''Virginia''. She was named ''Kerlew'' and owned by Kerr Navigation Corporation of New York City by the time the United States Army acquired her on a bareboat charter basis in October 1917. The U.S. Navy acquired ''Kerlew'' on 13 November 1918, two days after the end of World War I, at Cardiff, Wales, assigned her the naval registry Identification Number (Id. No.) 1325, and commissioned her the same day as USS ''Kerlew''. Assigned to the U.S. Army coal trade at Cardiff, ''Kerlew'' transported coal across the English Channel from British to French ports. She continued this duty until 29 January 1919, when she arrived at Invergordon, Scotland, to load a cargo of American naval mines for return to the United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Arab Shipping Company
Hapag-Lloyd AG is a German international shipping and container transportation company. Hapag-Lloyd was formed in 1970 through a merger of Hamburg-American Line (HAPAG) and North German Lloyd. History The company was formed on September 1, 1970, by the merger of two German transportation/maritime companies, Hamburg-American Line (HAPAG), which dated from 1847, and Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) or North German Lloyd (NGL), which was formed in 1857. Since its formation, Hapag-Lloyd has seen changes among its shareholders and has also undergone a number of mergers with other companies. For instance, Hapag-Lloyd was completely acquired by, and became a subsidiary of TUI AG (Hanover) in 1998. This transition was followed by TUI selling a majority stake of Hapag-Lloyd to private investors in Hamburg in 2009 and further sales in 2012. Other important events in the company's history include Hapag-Lloyd's acquisition of CP Ships in 2005 as well as Hapag-Lloyd's merger with the container ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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