GGA Image ID # 16683b75a7, SS Prinzessin Victoria Luise First Class Conversation Salon Showing Light Shaft. GGA Image ID # 1e2442a7b1, A Large Group of Passengers at Bellsund, Spitzbergen, Wait on the Shoreline to Ride on the Tender That Will Take Them to the Ss August Victoria. Almost five years after her debut, her career came to an end while on a West Indian cruise. [4], Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}175540N 765110W / 17.92778N 76.85278W / 17.92778; -76.85278, This article is about the cruise ship. Kaiser Wilhelm der Groe was a German transatlantic ocean liner named after Wilhelm I German Emperor the first She had a trim hull 52.2 feet (15.9m) wide by 407.5 feet (124.2m) long. Through her daughter Queen Frederica of Greece, Princess Victoria Louise was the maternal grandmother of Queen Sophia of Spain and Constantine II of Greece. In addition, the sleeping accommodations were not refined for first-class passengers; as a result, the ship was deemed a temporary substitute only. Berggarten Mausoleum, Hanover, West Germany, The generations are numbered from the ascension of, Generations are numbered by husband's descent from the first, Victoria Louise Adelaide Matilda Charlotte, Ernest Augustus, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick, Verkehrsluftschiff der Deutschen Luftschifffahrts Aktiengesellschaft, Princess Alexandra of Ysenburg and Bdingen, Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Countess Louise Sophie af Danneskiold-Samse, Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, "At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 28th day of March, 1919", "Herzogin Viktoria Luise - Munzinger Biographie", "Real orden de Damas Nobles de la Reina Maria Luisa", "The House of Hanover, Queen Victoria and the Gelph dynasty", "Hanoverian Exile and Prussian Governance: King George V of Hanover and His Successor in Austria, 18661913", Historical footage of the marriage of Victoria Louise in May 1913, Luise Dorothea, Hereditary Princess of Hesse-Kassel, Wilhemine, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Friederike Luise, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Philippine Charlotte, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbttel, Sophia Dorothea, Margravine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Princess Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York and Albany, Alexandrine, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Louise, Princess Frederick of the Netherlands, Elisabeth, Princess Charles of Hesse and by Rhine, Louise, Landgravine of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfel, Charlotte, Hereditary Princess of Saxe-Meiningen, Alexandrine, Duchess William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Viktoria, Princess Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, Elisabeth, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Oldenburg, Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught and Strathearn, Viktoria Luise, Duchess of Brunswick and Princess of Hanover, Victoria Margaret, Princess Heinrich XXXIII Reuss of Kstritz, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein, Duchess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbttel, Countess Isabelle of Thurn and Valsassina-Como-Vercelli, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Princess_Victoria_Louise_of_Prussia&oldid=1134322892, Burials at Berggarten Mausoleum, Herrenhausen (Hanover), Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles containing explicitly cited English-language text, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2021, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. married first 1951, Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glcksburg; had issue. [1] Launched on 29 June 1900, she served with HAPAG until 16 December 1906 after being accidentally grounded off Jamaica. Pushing all this at a steady 15 knots (28km/h) were quadruple expansion steam engines. He also owned Marienburg Castle near Hanover; however, the couple rarely lived there until 1945. She was declared a total loss on 19 December, and sank in a seaquake in 1907. [1]. Ballin believed that only a vessel specifically designed for cruising would be appropriate. They offered few amenities aboard. The Duchess passed away in Hanover in 1980, at the age of 88. The vessel is so close to the shore that people can almost walk on board of her from the beach. Augusta Victoria was the first European liner with twin screws, which made her both faster and more reliable. GGA Image ID # 1e2c0470d8, The SS Prinzessin Victoria Luise Approaches the Harbor at Troms. The ship was launched on 29 June 1900 and christened Prinzessin Victoria Luise. Augusta Victoria, the first to be placed in service, was originally to have been called Normannia but was renamed for the Empress after Wilhelm II became Emperor. The Prinzessin Victoria Luise, a German passenger ship of the Hamburg-America Line, was the first official cruise ship to set sail in the summer of 1900. The cruise ship industry started with the vision of Albert Ballin. In 1889, HAPAG introduced their lavish new flagship Augusta Victoria, which, at 18.5 knots, became the fastest ship in service between Europe and North America. GGA Image ID # 1668867c87, SS Prinzessin Victoria Luise First Class Smoking Room. GGA Image ID # 1666638b15, Light Shaft on the SS Blcher. Prinzessin Victoria Luise was a German passenger ship of the Hamburg-America Line (HAPAG) of some 4,409 gross register tons (GRT). [2] GGA Image ID # 1666dd5ceb, The SS Blcher in Geirangerfjord (Geirangerfjorden), Romsdal, Norway. [13] The princess's confirmation took place at Friedenskirche in Potsdam on 18 October 1909. GGA Image ID # 1e2811c83d, Passengers Boarding the Tender Heading to the SS Meteor at the Village of Merok, Geiranger Fjord, Norway. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Millions of high-quality images, video, and music options await you. A few months after Ballin became managing director, he commissioned in 1900 Blohm & Voss to construct such a ship, to be named after Kaiser Wilhelm II's daughter. She was painted all white and had two masts (one fore and aft) and two tall, slim funnels amidships. 93 (of 94) ll., 26 of which written on. When her eldest son made Marienburg a museum in 1954 and moved himself to Calenberg Estate nearby, she became at odds with him, although he had offered her several other manor houses to move in. Can You Guess Which State Did the First Six Flags Theme Park Open In? On the Left Is Arne Mjelva - A Carriage Proprietor with a Parking Lot Full of the Traditional Two-Wheel Buggies Called Stolkjaerre. She is credited with having been the first purpose-built cruise ship. [35] Her husband died at Marienburg on 30 January 1953. fred henderson. Sie suchen nach einem Criminal damge, das Ihren Ansprchen gerecht wird? GGA Image ID # 1665a62a3d, The SS Blcher in Raftsund, Lofoten, Digermulen, Norway. Streamline your workflow with our best-in-class digital asset management system. Mother of Queen Victoria. A new light was thrown upon the grounding of the Hamburg-American liner Prinzessin Victoria Luise off Port Royal, near Kingston, on Dec. 16, by the 116 members of the wrecked vessel's crew and three of her passengers, who got in yesterday on the steamship Sarnia. While in Berlin, Ernest Augustus met Victoria Louise, and the two became smitten with each other. [1], Prinzessin Victoria Luise left on her maiden voyage on 5 January 1901 from Hamburg, stopping at Boulogne, Plymouth, and finally reaching New York on 17 January. In 1886, Albert Ballin joined HAPAG (Hamburg-Amerikanische-Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft) as manager of its passage department. [31] In 1938 Princess Frederica married the future King Paul of Greece. The. Thus, when his father died in 1923, Ernest Augustus did not succeed to his father's British title of Duke of Cumberland. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. Ballin was the son of Danish immigrants and took over his father's immigration business in 1974. Great View of Passengers on the Deck Watching the Ship. Due to inclement weather, travelers largely stayed away from the North Atlantic route. 1913 Duke Prince Ernst August Brunswick Buneburg Victoria Luise Prusia Postcard. ; Vessel Was Entering Kingston Harbor -- Rescue of the Passengers", The American Marine Engineer January, 1907, "S/S Prinzessin Victoria Luise, Hamburg America Line", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prinzessin_Victoria_Luise&oldid=1061338876, This page was last edited on 21 December 2021, at 03:22. $12.50 + $1.11 shipping. Prinzessin Victoria Luise Subscribe to view. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. GGA Image ID # 1e26ac871c, Two Children Sit by the Meridian Column at Hammerfest with the SS Blcher in the Background. GGA Image ID # 1e26bedd5d, Departure from Cuxhaven of the SS Blcher. [2] In an attempt to dislodge the ship, the engines were put full astern to no avail. She is credited with having been the first purpose-built cruise ship. Launched on 29 June 1900, she served with HAPAG until 16 December 1906 after being accidentally grounded off Jamaica. [30] After his abdication in 1936, Edward VIII and his wife visited "the Cumberlands" at Cumberland Castle in Gmunden, Austria. She was lengthened, her tonnage increased, and her speed increased by half a knot, and the middle of her three masts was removed. [3] Her name was also changed to Auguste Victoria to correct an original inaccuracy; the Empress spelt her name with an e. While Augusta Victoria was under construction, the Emperor persuaded both Hamburg America and its rival Norddeutscher Lloyd to make their future liners convertible to auxiliary cruisers in time of war. A Small Croud Waits at the Pier. For the princess, see, Last edited on 21 December 2021, at 03:22. Prinzessin Victoria Luise was a German passenger ship of the Hamburg-America Line (HAPAG) of some 4,409 gross register tons (GRT). 05.07.2018 - Erkunde Sophie "La Baronesse" VSs Pinnwand Prinzessin Viktoria Luise von Preussen" auf Pinterest. Passengers could avoid seasickness by traveling on the magnificent, fast, twin-screw Transatlantic liner "Oceana" of 14,000 Tons, 535 Feet in length. RM 2B1J4PC - Prinzessin Viktoria Luise von Preuen, Herzogin zu Braunschweig-Lneburg, in der ffentlichkeit, Deutschland um 1976. GGA Image ID # 1e239fde73. Princess Victoria Louise was born on 13 September 1892, the seventh child and only daughter of German Emperor Wilhelm II and Empress Augusta Victoria. Her second cruise, to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, commenced from New York on 9 March. Title Page, Hamburg-Amerika Linie Nordland-Fahrten (North Country Voyages), 1908. 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