The Scandinavian America Line (''Skandinavien-Amerika-Linien'') was founded in 1898, when ''Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskap'' (

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) took over the steamship company

Thingvalla Line Thingvalla line was a shipping company founded by Danish financier, industrialist and philanthropist Carl Frederik Tietgen in 1879 in Copenhagen, Denmark. It maintained a route between Copenhagen and New York City calling at Kristiania (present d ...

. The passenger and freight service between

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and

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was operated under the name Scandinavian America Line until 1935.

Fleet

Scandinavian America Line headquarters 1914

One of the ships in the Scandinavian American Line was the SS ''United States''. This ship was constructed in 1903 by A. Stephen and Sons in Glasgow. She was 10,095 tons and 500.8 feet long. Her captain was Captain Wulff. The ''United States'' made her maiden voyage on March 30, 1903; she sailed from

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to Christiana (present-day Oslo),

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then on to New York by June 3, 1903. The ''United States'' left from Copenhagen on her last voyage on October 25, 1934. She was damaged by a fire on September 2, 1935 at Copenhagen and was scrapped that same year in Leghorn. In November 1935 the ship SS ''Frederik VIII'' sailed the Scandinavian America Line's final voyage from

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. The ship was scrapped in 1936. After that time, cargo and passenger service continued under DFDS's own name.

List of ships

* ''Hekla'', 1884-1898, taken over with Thingvalla Line, 1905 sold to Danish owners, renamed Eduard Regel. 3,258 * ''Thingvalla'', 1874-1898, taken over with Thingvalla Line, 1900 sold to Norway. 2,524 * ''Norge'', 1881-1898, taken over with Thingvalla Line, 1904 wrecked near Rockall, 620 lives lost. 3,310 * ''Island'', 1882-1898, taken over with Thingvalla Line, 1906 scrapped. 2,844 * ''Oscar II'', 1901-1933 scrapped. 9,956 * ''Hellig Olav'', 1903-1934 scrapped. 10,085 * ''United States'', 1903-1935 damaged by fire at Copenhagen and scrapped. 10,095 * ''C.F. Tietgen'', 1897, ex- Rotterdam, 1906 purchased from

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and renamed C.F. Tietgen, 1913 sold to

Russian American Line The Russian American Line was a subsidiary steamship line of the East Asiatic Company that was in business from 1900 until the time of the Russian Revolution in 1917. In 1906 it began passenger service from Libau to New York after the Hamburg Am ...

, renamed Dwinsk. 8,173 * ''Frederik VIII'', 1914-1936 scrapped.

Legacy

Amerikakaj Amerikakaj ( lit. "America Quay") is a 700 metre long quay along the west side of the Søndre Frihavn dock in Copenhagen, Denmark. The name commemorates the transatlantic passenger ships of the Scandinavian America Line which used to berth along t ...

(America Quay) is the name of the quay in the former

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from where the America liners departed. Scandinavian America Line's sales office in Copenhagen was based at

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References

External links

Skandinavien Amerika Linien / Scandinavian American Line Passenger Lists
GG Archives

Scandinavian-American Line History and Ephemera
GG Archives {{Authority control Shipping companies of Denmark Danish companies established in 1898 Transatlantic shipping companies

Fleet

List of ships

Legacy

See also

References

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