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USS Zeppelin
USS ''Zeppelin'' was a passenger liner Ceremonial ship launching, launched in 1914 as SS ''Zeppelin'' by Bremer Vulkan, Bremen-Vegesack, German Empire, Germany, for Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL). Due to the World War I, First World War she never entered NDL service. She had a career after the war first under White Star Line control, then briefly as the troop ship USS ''Zeppelin'', next as the Orient Steam Navigation Company, Orient SN Co liner SS ''Ormuz'' and finally back with NDL as SS ''Dresden''. Troop ship SS ''Zeppelin'' was Ceremonial ship launching, launched on 9 June 1914, and on completion she was handed over to Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) on 21 January 1915. By then the U-boat Campaign (World War I), First Battle of the Atlantic of the World War I, First World War was under way so NDL laid her up at Bremen until the end of hostilities. On 28 March 1919 she was surrendered as war reparations to the UK Government, who placed her under the management of the White Star Line. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Von Zeppelin
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (german: Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin; 8 July 1838 – 8 March 1917) was a German general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships. His name soon became synonymous with airships and dominated long-distance flight until the 1930s. He founded the company Luftschiffbau Zeppelin. Family and personal life Ferdinand was the scion of a noble family. Zepelin, the family's eponymous hometown, is a small community outside the town of Bützow in Mecklenburg. Ferdinand was the son of Württemberg Minister and Hofmarschall Friedrich Jerôme Wilhelm Karl Graf von Zeppelin (1807–1886) and his wife Amélie Françoise Pauline (born Macaire d'Hogguer) (1816–1852). Ferdinand spent his childhood with his sister and brother at their Girsberg manor near Konstanz, where he was educated by private tutors. Ferdinand married Isabella Freiin von Wolff in Berlin. She was from the house of Alt-Schwanenburg (located in the present-day to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
