Hamburg America Line

Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG), or simply called Hamburg America Line, was a German shipping line founded in Hamburg in 1847, it would merge with Norddeutscher Lloyd in 1970 to found Hapag-Lloyd.

It is known for having had three great ocean liners: SS Imperator, SS Vaterland and SS Bismarck, which surpassed the British Ocean Liners in size and luxury, although after the end of the First World War they would pass into British (Cunard and White Star) and American (United States Lines) hand as war reparations, The SS Deutschland which would win the coveted Blue Riband between 1900-1903 and the SS Amerika, which would be the first ship to alert the RMS Titanic of the Presence of icebergs.

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 Other websites 

 The history of the Hamburg-America Line
 Historic photos of Hoboken and Hamburg America Line ports

Category:Defunct shipping companies
Category:1847 establishments in Europe
Category:20th-century disestablishments in Germany
Category:1970 disestablishments in Europe