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SS Fürst Bismarck (1905)
SS ' was a Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) ocean liner. She was launched in Scotland in 1905. In 1914 she was renamed '. In 1919 the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom seized her as World War I reparations. In 1921 Messageries Maritimes acquired her and renamed her '. She was scrapped in Kingdom of Italy, Italy in 1935. The ship spent much of her HAPAG career on the route between Hamburg and Veracruz (city), Vera Cruz. For most of her Messageries Maritimes career her route was between Marseille-Fos Port, Marseille and Haiphong. She was the second HAPAG ocean liner to be named after Otto von Bismarck. HAPAG's first was launched in 1890 and sold to Russian Empire, Russia in 1904. Building The ship was the first of a pair of Sister ship, sisters that HAPAG commissioned, one from the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Glasgow, and the other from Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel. They were laid down as ' and ' respectively, but launched a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Von Bismarck
Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (, ; 1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), born Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, was a conservative German statesman and diplomat. From his origins in the upper class of Junker landowners, Bismarck rose rapidly in Prussian politics, and from 1862 to 1890 he was the Minister President of Prussia, minister president and List of foreign ministers of Prussia, foreign minister of Prussia. Before his rise to the Executive (government), executive, he was the Prussian ambassador to Russian Empire, Russia and Second French Empire, France and served in both houses of the Landtag of Prussia, Prussian Parliament. He masterminded the unification of Germany in 1871 and served as the first Chancellor of Germany#Under the Emperor (1871–1918), Chancellor of the German Empire until 1890, in which capacity he dominated European affairs. He had served as the chancellor of the North German Confederation from 1867 to 1871, alon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
