ISBN: 0-88739-438-8
472 pp.
Size: 8.5 x 11
Hardcover
Price: $50.00
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Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen Vol. I
Edwin Dreschel
These are two volumes chronicling one of the most exciting periods in the history of North Atlantic passenger travel, when the United States welcomed millions who left Europe for lives of promise and hope, free at last from the oppression they had known. These books open the curtain on a way of life that has departed forever, tracing the development of the great Breman shipping line. Its world-wide commercial impact and communications through ship mails was long before the arrival of air mail and long distance telephone.
On sailships, the men who actually worked the ship, excluding the captain, mates, chips (carpenter) and cook, were barely twenty, hardly more...Most crews were a mixture of half a dozen nationalities. As with the Foreign Legion, no questions asked beyond: 'Can you do the job?' and the necessary seamen's papers. Chips only stood watch in the worst weather. The cook never.
On 1 August, 1927, Clarence Chamberlain flew a Fokker biplane off a 100-foot ramp built over the forward deck of Leviathan...with 916 letters. A similar ramp-type takeoff had been tried earlier from the U.S.S. Pennsylvania. Two days later, the U.S. Post Office Department announced that it would put aircraft on trans-Atlantic liners...to shorten the crossing time for mails.
Bio: EDWIN DRESCHEL, like the Lloyd, was born in Breman. For 36 years he was a foreign correspondents, while pursuing his interests as a ship lover and stamp collector.
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