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- Postcards Argo Shipping Companies
- Postcards Deutsch Australische Dampfschifffahrts G. - DADG
- Postcards Deutsche Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft - DDG Hansa
- Postcards Deutsche Seereederei, Rostock - DSR
- German Atlantic Line
- HADAG Seatourism
- Hamburg Chicago Line
- Horn Line
- Hugo Stinnes Line
- Postcards Lübeck-Bremen steamship company
- Neptun Line / Dampfschifffahrts Gesellschaft Neptun
- Oldenburg-Portugiesische Steamboat-shipping company OPDR
- Shipping company Ernst Russ
- Shipping company F. Laeisz
- Shipping company Fisser & van Doornum
- Shipping company Frigga
- Shipping company Norden-Frisia
- Shipping company Paul Mestermann
- Shipping company Rob. M. Sloman & Co. oHG
- Shipping company New Steamer-Compagnie AG, Stettin
- Saßnitzer Dampfschiffsgesellschaft
- Swinemünder Steamship Company
- Sylter Steamship Company, DSG
- Postcards White Fleet Stralsund
- Wyker Steamship Company Föhr Amrum, W.D.R.
- Reederei Jade-Seebäderdienst, Rüstringen
- Reederei AG-EMS
- Reederei Schifffahrt der Inselgemeinde Langeoog
On postcards of the German shipping company Deutsche Atlantik Linie (DAL), one often finds the name of the company’s predecessor, “Hamburg Atlantic Linie”.
The latter started the former after a big success with the turbine ship (TS) Hanseatic, built in 1929 as “Empress von Japan”, with the funds of private investors, mainly Hanseatic passengers.
After a fire on TS Hanseatic in 1966, the Hanseatic DAL had no ship, but in 1967 they bought Israeli Shalom, which was operating under the name of Hanseatic, too. On numerous postcards, one sees the only newly built ship of the shipping company, Hamburg TS (1969).
Increased costs and failed takeover with Hapag-Lloyd in 1974 eventually led to the whole company being sold to the Soviets. TS Hamburg reappears as “Maxim Gorki”, as those who collect historical photo postcards know.