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HAMBURG
SHIPS FROM HAMBURG
I. (SL)
AUSTRALIA-SLOMAN LINE A.G.
Passenger Service to
Australia and New
Zealand
From Hamburg, 1880-1886
.
FromWedge's "Brown's Flags and
Funnels" 1940
AMALFI –
iscs 1f3bkn 2,353gt 1881 Stockton
Arnold Kludas' "Die Geschichte Der Deutschen
Passagier-Schiffahrt, Vol. 1, 1850-1890 "
CATANIA (ex-ECHUCA)– 2,210gt
1881 Glasgow
Website of the "Old Ship
Picture Galleries"
MARSALA
– 2,406gt 1882 Glasgow
No image
found
PROCIDA (ex-CITY OF MECCA
and CLAN MACLEOD,
1882, purchased and renamed
PROCUDA) – 2,276gt 1871 Glasgow
No image
found
SORRENTO
- iscs 1f2m 2,364gt 1881 Glasgow (In New Zealand - an early
transporter of meat)
Photographer: David de
Maus
Ian Farquahar "Ships in Focus Record, No.35"
TAORMINA
– iscs 1f2bgn 2,528gt 1884 Glasgow
Arnold Kludas' "Die Geschichte Der Deutschen
Passagier-Schiffahrt, Vol. 1, 1850-1890"
.
Ship details
from Arnold Kludas' "Geschichte Der
Deutschen
Passaagier- Schiffahrt" Vol 1, from 1850-1890
II. DEUTSCH -
AUSTRALISCHE DAMPFSCHIFFS
GESELLSCHAFT (DADG), HAMBURG
(GERMAN - AUSTRALIAN
STEAMSHIP LINE)
The
Hmburg company of Robert Sloman (above) withdrew its steamer
service
to Australia and New Zealand in 1886. Another Hamburg
company,
the DADG established in 1888, opened a service to Australia
in 1889
with seven ships completed in that year. The service was routed
from
Hamburg to Antwerp and via Suez to Adelaide, Melbourne and
Sydney. Passengers were carried from the first
sailing in
July 1889 until
November
1891 when a route change and disappointing passenger
numbers led to the ending of passenger services by
the
DADG. The
company
did well and expanded its services to South Africa, Java and
Singapore. Most of the ships below were replaced by newer larger
vessels.
On 1 January 1914,
DADG had 51 ships totalling 260,000gt -ten DADG
ships were seized or
captured in Australian ports or nearby waters
with
the outbreak of World
War I. DADG was taken over by the
Hamburg -
America Line in 1925.
ELBERFELD - 2,617t 1889 Newcastle was
replaced
Otto J. Seiler's ""Australien Fahrt"
ESSEN - 2,985t 1889
Flensburg (in Port Adelaide 1914)
No
image found
ERLANGEN - 2,750t 1889 Hamburg
No
image found
SOLINGEN - 2,675t 1889 Hamburg
Allan C. Green
State Library of Victoria
(H92.299/79)
BARMAN - 2,614t
1889 Hamburg
No
image found
CHEMNITZ
- 2,700t
1889 Hamburg
No
image found
SOMMERFELD - 2,609t
1889 Glasgow
No
image found
STASSFURT
- 3,231t 1891 Hamburg
Arnold Kudas' "Die Geschichte Der Deutschen
passagier-Schiffahrt, Vol. 1. 1850-1890"
Ship and
other details from Otto J. Seiler's Australien Fahrt:
Linienschiffahrt der Hapag-Lloyd AG im Wandel der Zeiten
(Vertag
E.S. Mittler & Sohn GmbH, Herford 1988)
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