North German Lloyd - Norddeutscher Lloyd

North German Lloyd
(Norddeutscher Lloyd)

Germany

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North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American Line merged to form Hapag-Lloyd in 1970. The Bremen and Europa were transferred to the new company.

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Passenger list of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse (sailed from Bremen to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg on February 28, 1899) Includes sailings February-May 1899
Vessel(s)	Ports of call
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse Kaiser Friedrich	Bremen, Southampton, Cherbourg, New York
Bremen Friedrich der Grosse Königin Luise Lahn Trave Barbarossa Prinz-Regent Luitpold	Bremen, Southampton, New York (One roundtrip voyage only: Barbarossa and Prinz-Regent Luitpold.)
Willehad Weimar H.H. Meier (One roundtrip voyage each only)	Bremen, New York

Vessel(s)	Ports of call
Sailings 1903 (various dates)
North German Lloyd:
Sailings February-September 1903
Express Steamers: Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse Kronprinz Wilhelm Kaiser Wilhelm II Kaiserin Maria Theresia	Bremen, Southampton, Cherbourg, New York. Return voyages: New York, Plymouth, Cherbourg, Bremen.
Sailings February-July 1903
Mail Steamers: Königin Luise Grosser Kurfürst Friedrich der Grosse Barbarossa Bremen (Also occasional one-way or return voyages by: Brandenburg, Zieten, Neckar, Main, Hannover, König Albert and Prinzess Irene)	Typical voyages: Bremen, Southampton or Cherbourg, New York. Return voyages: Plymouth, Cherbourg, New York.
Sailings January-September 1903
Brandenburg Breslau Chemnitz Rhein Neckar Cassel (Also occasional voyages by: Köln, Frankfurt and Main)	Bremen, Baltimore
Sailings February-May 1903
Köln Frankfurt Hannover	Bremen, Baltimore, Galveston (Occasionally via New York or direct to Galveston.)
Sailings February-August 1903
Lahn Trave Hohenzollern	Genoa, Naples, Gibraltar, New York
Weimar König Albert Prinzess Irene Gera	Genoa, Naples, New York
Sailings February-May 1903
Halle Bonn Erlangen	Bremen, Antwerp, Leixoes/Oporto, Lisbon, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Santos (No return voyages listed.)
Aachen Crefeld Wittenberg	Bremen, Antwerp, Leixoes/Oporto, Lisbon, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Santos (No return voyages listed.)
Sailings January-May 1903
Pfalz Schleswig Wittekind	Bremen, Antwerp, Southampton, Cherbourg, Coruña, Villagarcia or Vigo, Montevideo, Buenos Aires (No return voyages listed.)
Sailings February-May 1903
Norderney Borkum Helgoland	Bremen, Antwerp, Coruña, Villagarcia or Vigo, Montevideo, Buenos Aires (No return voyages listed.)
Sailings February-April 1903
Stolberg Mainz Coblenz	Bremen, Antwerp, Coruña, Villagarcia or Vigo (optional), Havana, Cienfuegos, Manzanillo (No return voyages listed.)
Sailings January-July 1903
Rhein Oldenburg Karlsruhe Stuttgart Darmstadt Seydlitz	Bremen, Antwerp, Southampton, Genoa, Naples, Port Sais, Suez, Aden, Colombo, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney (No return voyages listed.)
Sailings February-July 1903
North German Lloyd: Zieten Roon Sachsen Bayern Hamburg-American Line: Kiautschou Hamburg	Bremen, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Southampton, Gibraltar, Genoa, Naples, Port Said, Suez, Aden, Colombo, Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe, Yokohama (No return voyages listed.)
Sailings February-June 1903
North German Lloyd: Sachsen Bayern Prinz Regent Luitpold Preussen Prinz Heinrich Hamburg-American Line: Kiautschou	Hamburg, Antwerp, Southampton, Gibraltar, Genoa, Naples, Port Said, Suez, Aden, Colombo, Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe, Yokohama (No return voyages listed.)

Passenger list of the George Washington (sailed from New York for Bremen via Plymouth and Cherbourg on April 16, 1914) Includes sailings for 1914
Vessel(s)	Ports of call
North German Lloyd:
Sailings March-August 1914
George Washington Kronprinz Wilhelm Kronprinzessin Cecilie Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm Kaiser Wilhelm II	Bremen, Southampton, Cherbourg, New York. Return voyages: New York, Plymouth, Cherbourg, Bremen.
Bremen Grosser Kurfürst Seydlitz Königin Luise Barbarossa	Bremen, New York. (One voyage only: Seydlitz, Königin Luise and Barbarossa.)
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse Grosser Kurfürst Barbarossa Bremen	Bremen, New York. Return voyages: New York, Plymouth, Cherbourg, Bremen. (One voyage only: Grosser Kurfürst, Barbarossa and Bremen.)
Berlin Friedrich der Grosse Bremen	Bremen, Boulogne, New York. Return voyages: New York, Plymouth, Cherbourg, Bremen. (One voyage only: Friedrich der Grosse and Bremen.)
Sailings April-November 1914
Berlin König Albert Prinzess Irene	1) Genoa, Naples, Palermo, Gibraltar, New York 2) Genoa, Naples, Palermo, New York 3) Genoa, Naples, Gibraltar, New York Return voyages: 1) New York, Gibraltar, Algiers, Naples, Genoa (Berlin only) 2) New York, Gibraltar, Naples, Genoa 3) New York, Algiers, Naples, Genoa (Prinzess Irene only) 4) New York, Palermo, Naples, Genoa (Berlin only)
Sailings March-June 1914
Friedrich der Grosse Chemnitz Rhein Main Cassel Neckar	Bremen, Philadelphia (Neckar and Main only), Baltimore. Return voyages directly to Bremen.
Sailings March-April 1914
Breslau Brandenburg	Bremen, Baltimore, Galveston. Return voyages directly to Bremen.
Sailings April-June 1914
Wittekind Brandenburg Chemnitz Breslau	Bremen, Philadelphia, Galveston. Return voyages directly to Bremen.
Sailings April 1914
Sailings April-August 1914
Sierra Cordoba Sierra Salvada Sierra Ventana Sierra Nevada Gotha Giessen	Bremen, Antwerp, Boulogne, Coruña, Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Buenos Aires. Return voyages: Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Madeira, Lisbon, Vigo, Boulogne, Bremen.
Sailings April-August 1914
Eisenach Erlangen Aachen Würzburg Crefeld Coburg	Bremen, Antwerp, Leixoes, Lisbon, Madeira, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Francisco do Sul, Santos. (Ports of call on return voyages not listed.)
Sailings January-March 1914
Schleswig	1) Venice, Alexandria. 2) Venice, Corfu, Alexandria. (Return voyages reversed, except one voyage: Alexandria, Jaffa, Venice)
Sailings January-July 1914
Prinz Heinrich Prinz Regent Luitpold	Marseilles, Naples, Alexandria. (Prinz Heinrich: one outward voyage via Genoa, one homeward voyage each via Jaffa and Beirut)
Sailings March-July 1914
Bülow Lützow Prinz Ludwig Göben Derfflinger Kleist Prinz Eitel Friedrich Yorck Prinzess Alice	1) Hamburg, Antwerp, Southampton, Lisbon, Algiers, Genoa, Naples, Port Said, Suez, Aden, Colombo, Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe (Hiogo), Yokohama. Return voyages: Yokohama, Kobe (Hiogo), Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Aden, Suez, Port Said, Naples, Genoa, Algiers, Southampton, Antwerp, Bremen. 2) Bremen, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Southampton, Gibraltar, Algiers, Genoa, Naples, Port Said, Suez, Aden, Colombo, Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tsingtau, Kobe (Hiogo), Yokohama. Return voyages: Yokohama, Kobe (Hiogo), Nagasaki, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Aden, Suez, Port Said, Naples, Genoa, Algiers, Gibraltar, Southampton, Antwerp, Hamburg. (Occasional calls at Funchow between Shanghai and Hong Kong on return voyages.)
Sailings April-August 1914
Manila	Singapore, Batavia, Macassar, Amboina, Banda, Eitape, Potsdamhafen, Alexishafen, Friedrich Wilhelmshafen, Erimahafen (Stephansort), Finschhafen, Morobe (Adolfhafen), Rabaul, Peterhafen, Kaewieng. Return voyages omitted Peterhafen and Banda.
Sailings December 1913-September 1914
Zieten Roon Gneisenau Scharnhorst Seydlitz Friedrich der Grosse Königin Luise	Bremen, Antwerp, Southampton, Algiers, Genoa, Naples, Port Said, Suez, Aden, Colombo, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney
Sailings March-May 1914
Prinz Sigismund Prinz Waldemar Coblenz	Sydney, Brisbane, Rabaul, Friedrich Wilhelmshafen, Maron (every other voyage), Yap, Angaur (every other voyage), Manila, Hong Kong, Kobe
North German Lloyd: Bremen Barbarossa Holland-America Line: Potsdam Noordam	Bremen, Halifax. (No return voyages listed.)

Click to view a menu and a passenger's log from a 1926 voyage
of the Sierra Morena between Bremerhaven and Buenos Aires
(Courtesy of Matias Ankert)

Click for views of the interior of the brochure

Sailings June 1929-February 1930 (issued July 1929)
Vessel(s)	Ports of call
Sierra Córdoba Sierra Morena Sierra Ventana	Bremen, Boulogne, Vigo, Lisbon, Madeira, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo, Buenos Aires
Madrid Weser Werra	Bremen, Vigo, Lisbon, Madeira, Tenerife, (Bahia), Rio de Janeiro, Santos, (Sao Francisco do Sul), (Rio Grande do Sul), Montevideo, Buenos Aires
Click to view a postcard of the Weser
Gotha	Bremen, Madeira, (Bahia), Santos, Buenos Aires

Sailings July-December 1931 (issued July 1, 1931) for:
Bremen, Europa, Columbus, Berlin, General von Steuben, Stuttgart, Dresden, Karlsruhe, Sierra Córdoba
Ports of call:
New York, Halifax, Galway, Cobh (Queenstown), Plymouth, Cherbourg, Southampton, Boulogne, Bremen

Sailings May-December 1932 for:
Bremen, Europa, Columbus, Berlin, General von Steuben, Dresden, Cap Norte, Antonio Delfino, Stuttgart, Sierra Córdoba, Sierra Morena, Sierra Ventana, Karlsruhe; many others
Ports of call:
Bremen, Boulogne, Southampton, Cherbourg, Plymouth, Queenstown, Galway, Halifax, New York;
Bremen, Amsterdam, Boulogne, Southampton, Coruña, Villagarcia, Vigo, Leixoes, Lisbon, Las Palmas, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo, Buenos Aires;
Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, Curaçao, Cristobal, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, Seattle-Tacoma, Portland;
Hamburg, Antwerp, Boulogne, Southampton, Havana, Veracruz, Tampico;
several others
Click to view postcards of the Europa
(Courtesy of Gwen Waters)

North German Lloyd/Hamburg-American Line
Sailings August 1935-January 1936 (issued August 1935) for:
Bremen, Europa, Columbus, Berlin, Stuttgart (Lloyd);
New York, Deutschland, Albert Ballin, Hamburg, Reliance, St Louis (Hapag)
Ports of call:
New York, Cobh, Galway, Plymouth, Cherbourg, Southampton, Boulogne, Bremen, Hamburg

North German Lloyd/Hamburg-American Line
Sailings February-November 1939 (issued February 20, 1939) for:
Bremen, Europa, Columbus, Berlin (Lloyd); Deutschland, Hansa, Hamburg, St Louis, Patria (Hapag)
Ports of call:
New York, Galway, Cobh, Cherbourg, Southampton, Bremen, Hamburg

Sailings January-December 1955 (issued January 15, 1955) for:
Berlin
Ports of call:
New York, Halifax, Bremerhaven
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Sailings January-December 1959 (issued February 1959) for:
Bremen, Berlin
Ports of call:
New York, Halifax, Cherbourg, Southampton, Bremerhaven

Hamburg-American Line/North German Lloyd
Sailings July 1961-January 1963 (issued June 1961)
Vessel(s)	Ports of call
Hamburg-American Line:
Hamburg Hannover	Typical voyage: Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Southampton, Genoa, Port Said, Penang, Singapore, Miri, Manila, Hong Kong, Kobe, Yokohama. Return: Yokohama, Kobe, Hong Kong, Singapore, Penang, Aden, Djibouti, Port Said, Genoa, Marseilles, Southampton, Antwerp, Rotterdam (or the two latter in reverse order), Hamburg.
Frankfurt	Typical voyage: Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Southampton, Genoa, Port Said, Singapore, Miri, Manila, Hong Kong, Kobe, Yokohama. Return: Yokohama, Kobe, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Penang, Aden, Djibouti, Port Said, Genoa, Southampton, Hamburg.
Cargo vessels with accommodation for 12 passengers or less:
München Dresden	Typical voyage: Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Port Said, Djibouti, Aden, Penang, Port Swettenham, Singapore, Hong Kong, Kobe, Yokohama. Return: Yokohama, Kobe, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Aden, Djibouti, Port Said, Genoa, Marseilles, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg.
Leverkusen	Typical voyage: Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Port Said, Djibouti, Aden, Penang, Singapore, Manila, Hong Kong, Kobe, Yokohama. Return: Yokohama, Kobe, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Penang, Aden, Djibouti, Port Said, Genoa, Hamburg.
North German Lloyd:
Bayernstein Schwabenstein	Typical voyage: Bremen, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Southampton, Genoa, Port Said, Djibouti, Aden, Penang, Singapore, Manila, Hong Kong, Kobe, Yokohama. Return: Yokohama, Kobe, Hong Kong, Singapore, Penang, Aden, Djibouti, Port Said, Genoa, Marseilles, Southampton, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Bremen.
Hessenstein	Typical voyage: Bremen, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Southampton, Genoa, Port Said, Djibouti, Aden, Singapore, Manila, Hong Kong, Kobe, Yokohama. Return: Yokohama, Kobe, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Penang, Aden, Djibouti, Port Said, Genoa, Southampton, Bremen.
Cargo vessels with accommodation for 12 passengers or less:
Rothenstein Reifenstein (one voyage only) Nabob (one voyage only) Unnamed vessel(s) (several voayges)	Typical voyage: Bremen, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Port Said, Djibouti, Aden, Penang, Port Swettenham, Singapore, Hong Kong, Kobe, Yokohama. Return: Yokohama, Kobe, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Aden, Djibouti, Port Said, Genoa, Marseilles, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Bremen.
Travestein Neckarstein (one voyage only)	Typical voyage: Bremen, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Port Said, Djibouti, Aden, Penang, Singapore, Manila, Hong Kong, Kobe, Yokohama. Return: Yokohama, Kobe, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Penang, Aden, Djibouti, Port Said, Genoa, Bremen.

Sailings January-December 1967 (issued September 1966) for:
Bremen, Europa
Ports of call:
Bremerhaven, Southampton, Cherbourg, New York
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North German Lloyd/German Atlantic Line
Sailings June 1967-December 1968 (issued August 1967)
Vessel(s)	Ports of call
North German Lloyd:
Bremen Europa	Bremerhaven, Southampton, Cherbourg, New York. (Bremen called at Halifax on two outward voyages Dec 1967-Jan 1968.)
German Atlantic Line:
Hanseatic	Cuxhaven, Southampton, Cherbourg, New York. (Only during summer 1968, beginning in April/May.)

See the archives section for more brochures of North German Lloyd.
See also the shipping in 1971 section (Hapag-Lloyd).

North German Lloyd fleet information, history etc. on the following website:

The Simplon Postcards website has a page on the history of the North German Lloyd with many postcards/photos of liners of the post-WW2 era.

Great Ships website shows postcards of many old liners and also has brief histories.
See the Index of Ships page. (See "Norddeutscher Lloyd" section.)

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