Terrific images and stirring music! Those old-time ocean liners had a lot more dignity to them than the modern cruise ships.

@Schorschi1988

9 жыл бұрын

Alex M Frankel Thank you my friend :) I think also. The old liners have had personality. Especially the giants before the WWI. And for the greatest German Ocean Liner still today...a great music.

The Vaterland must have had some of the most extreme sea trials in history. They actually took the ship out to deep water and flooded a third of the water tight compartments and let the ship sink as far as she would go. The ship came through with flying colours.

I love the sound of the ship's whistle.

A nostalgic video that reminds me of what could have been! This trio of wonderful ships was the brainchild of Albert Ballin (you can see him with the emperor at 0:31, disembarking at 0:39 and - I guess - at 2:53 on inspection), chairman of the HAPAG, and was intended to take the lion share of the north atlantic traffic to America. Not only were theses ships quite fast, but economical, too. They were the culmination of ship building pre-1914 and paved the way for ships to come. Albert Ballin himself was a german patriot of jewish descendance, a cosmopolitan and great entrepreneur, under his chairmanship the HAPAG grew to be the biggest shipping line in the world. His employees remarked that "the HAPAG is Ballin and Ballin is the HAPAG", an english newspaper once wrote "the danger for Britain's rule of the seas is not the German High Seas Fleet - but Ballin!". He tried in vane to prevent the war and remarked "war is stupidity exploding!". In a letter he warned: "If we beat her (Great Britain) or she beats us, all the same: Our worldwide trade will be ruined!" But to no avail, You know the story, WW1 and so on. His company and his work lay in tatters in 1918, the day before armistice he took his life. What remains are pictures of what could have been, nostalgia. But we shall look foreward, shouldn't we, and possibly do a better job than our forefathers.

Drop dead Gorgeous!

Georg, this is awesome. I have always knew Leviathan was pretty, but I had no Inkling she was drop dead Gorgeous! Georg, if I ever visit Germany and Balveria, I will look you up.

Das waren noch Zeiten, des Reiches Herrlichkeit

AmeriCa C But Amazing Video

0:37 Stalin?

@bekluwe

4 жыл бұрын

No this was Albert Ballin. The owner of the HAPAG at that time. He made it the largest shipping company in the world! He committed suicide in 1918 because the work of his whole life, his ships were gone.

@rmmvoceanic1928

3 жыл бұрын

No

was the Vaterland Germany's proudest Maritime creation? Because it was the largest German ship ever built.

@ChrisArchieMOV

9 жыл бұрын

I don't count the Bismarck

@27253i

5 жыл бұрын

Americas Largest Ship

@bekluwe

4 жыл бұрын

We are also proud of the Bremen (1929), the Deutschland (1900), four funnel speed steamers (1897-1907), the Imperator (1913), the Vaterland (1914), the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria (1905), the battleship Bismarck (1939) and the Preußen (1902) and the rest of the flying p liners, the Prinzessin Victoria Luise (1897) and others. Sadly two big ships were taken away from Germany before they could cross the Atlantic under German flag. Those two ships were the the Bismarck/Majestic and the Columbus/Homeric. Fun fact: The RMS Titanic and Olympic were built with cranes from Germany.

@brandnazvi9354

3 жыл бұрын

@@bekluwe arent you proud of the Scharnhorst, Gneisnau, and Tirpitz?

Steward, Champagner!