ISBN10: 0905617509, ISBN13: 9780905617503, [publisher: World Ship Society, Kendal, UK] Hardcover The Hamburg South America Line is one of the best known of the major German shipping companies and this excellent history, takes it from its founding in 1871 through to the container age. Equally well known, as a major maritime publishing house, is the World Ship Society and this history was only the second hard cover book it produced. This well established and significant international shipping operator virtually had to start from scratch to rebuild its fleet following two world wars. Trading was confined to its traditional routes from Europe to eastern South America until the mid-1950s when services were extended world-wide. The main section of the book deals with the company's fleet list with most of the approx 208 individual ships illustrated with a b/w photo, a few with art works or profile drawings. Other sections cover Argentine flag ships, foreign flagged ships, chartered and managed ships, tugs, lighters and small craft. This is a nautical book to be prized among any collection of maritime literature. First edition from the World Ship Society of 1989, 192 pages including index, illustrated with colour art frontis of liner Cap Polonio, b/w illustrations throughout -- mainly photos, at the back is a pictorial appendix of 10 coloured representative ship profiles from 1883 to the liner Cap Arcona of 1936, the last three on a fold-out final page, backing this is ...

ISBN10: 0905617509, ISBN13: 9780905617503, [publisher: World Ship Society, Great Britain] Hardcover Size: 10"-12" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Ships & the Sea; ISBN: 0905617509. ISBN/EAN: 9780905617503. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 37442.
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