Saloon steamer "Cobra", Germany. Sea resort for transatlantic service. Postcard

SALOON STEAMER COBRA
Sea resort service Hamburg-New York.

Postcard (reprint) published by Posti Museo, Tampere, Finland, No. 81, 2000 / 16.05.1997.

The Saloon steamer Cobra was a paddle wheeler powered steamship, launched at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan (Glasgow, Scotland) on 2 March 1889, renamed St. Tudno by Liverpool & Llandudno SS Co Ltd, Liverpool, England, in 1890. The same year was renamed Cobra by Albert Ballin, Hamburg (Germany). In 1897 it was purchased by Nordsee-Linie Dampfschiff GmbH, Hamburg, and in 1905 it became the property of Hamburg-Amerika Linie (HAPAG), also from Hamburg, which used it for the Atlantic crossing. In 1919 it was seized by the French government as war reparations, and in 1920 it reverted to the property of Hamburg-Amerika Linie (HAPAG) of Hamburg, which purchased it from France and returned it to service until April 1922, when it was scrapped in Wismar (Germany) by Mahr & Beyer.

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