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Kerr Steamship
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 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 Hapag-Lloyd AG is a German international shipping and container transportation company. Hapag-Lloyd was forme ... [...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] |
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