"HANSEATIC" Ocean Liner in the port of Hamburg, Germany. Postcards

HANSEATIC
Ocean Liner
in the port of Hamburg

Postcards published by Hans Andres Verlag, Hamburg.

This ship was built in 1929–1930 by the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company at Govan on the Clyde, Scotland, for Canadian Pacific Steamships. Originally named Empress of Japan, it regularly sailed the transpacific route between the west coast of Canada and the Far East until 1942, when it was renamed Empress of Scotland. In 1958, it was acquired by the Hamburg Atlantic Line and extensively rebuilt, then renamed Hanseatic. It was assigned to the Hamburg–New York route. On 8 September 1966, the ship caught fire in New York, and on 28 September, it was towed to Hamburg, where it was deemed economically unviable. It was scrapped shortly thereafter.

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