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- Why Was The SS Prinzessin Victoria Luise built?
- How Big Was The First Cruise Ship Compared to Modern Cruise Ships?
- Where Did The First Cruise Ship Sail?
- What Were Accommodations Like on The First Cruise Ship?
- Amenities Aboard The Prinzessin Victoria Luise
- What Were Meals Like on The First Cruise Ship?
- The Tragic Fate of SS Prinzessin Victoria Luise and Her Captain
- What Happened to The SS Prinzessin Victoria Luise After The Wreck?
In 1886 Albert Ballin—today considered the father of modern cruise ship travel—joined Hamburg-America as the manager of its passage department. Ballin immediately realized that in the winter months the company’s flagship vessel, the ocean liner Augusta Victoria, sat idle. Passengers didn’t want to travel in the North Atlantic in frigid conditions. ...
Prinzessin Victoria Luise‘s hull was 52.2 feet wide (15.9 m) by 407.5 feet long (124.2 m). She measured 4,409 gross register tons (GRT). If you compare Prinzessin Victoria Luise to Royal Caribbean’s Wonder of the Seas (the largest cruise ship currently in operation at 236,857 GRT), you could fit almost fifty-four of her inside! But for the time, sh...
Originally, the plan for the Prinzessin Victoria Luisewas to kick off with a 135-day grand world cruise for her maiden voyage. The very first cruise ship would have left Hamburg on August 28, 1900, sailing eastbound around the world until she reached San Francisco. At that point, the passengers would disembark, travel by train across the United Sta...
All of the passenger cabins on the Prinzessin Victoria Luisewere first-class staterooms, decorated with sumptuous fabrics and rich wood furnishings accented with brass. The Emperor’s Suite, custom-built for Germany’s kaiser (though there’s no evidence he ever sailed in it) was complete with a private bath and toilet. All staterooms had sinks with r...
Prinzessin Victoria Luise‘s lavish art-nouveau interior was opulent, with gilded detail work on every wall, crystal-paned domes to let in the light, and plush furniture and carpets in rich colors throughout the ship. Decorative live plants and cut flower arrangements augmented the beauty of the furnishings. But the guest amenities on board the Prin...
On Prinzessin Victoria Luise, meals were served in the elegant dining room, an opulent atrium-style space with galleries brightened by a stained-glass rosette skylight. Dinner on the Prinzessinwas a lavish eight-course affair. Unlike on today’s cruise ships, diners didn’t have a choice of dining time, or a choice of what they wanted to eat! But fro...
On the moonlit evening of December 16, 1906, the Prinzessin Victoria Luisewas entering Kingston Harbor in Jamaica. But sadly, she would never leave. According to a New York Times articlepublished later that month, the crew and several passengers told the story of what happened that fateful night. Captain H. Brunswig, hoping to beckon a pilot to hel...
Soon after the Prinzessin‘s grounding, two nearby ships came to her aid. Both the German cruiser Bremen and the French training ship Duguay-Trouin offered assistance, with the Bremenattaching lines in an attempt to tow the ship off of the rocks. But the Prinzessinwouldn’t budge. She had suffered significant damage during the grounding—her engines w...
12 de may. de 2020 · The Prinzessin Victoria Luise set off on her maiden voyage from Hamburg on 5 January, 1901 and sailed directly into the hearts of European and American high society of the 1900’s.
El Prinzessin Victoria Luise fue un barco de vapor del Imperio Alemán construido por la empresa Hamburg America Line, al que se le atribuye ser el primer buque crucero de la historia.
Luise, Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, was born in 1776 and grew up with her grandmother at the court of Darmstadt. Her mother died young. Frederick William II discovered Luise and her...
13 de mar. de 2023 · Microsoft 365 Consultant, Low Code Dev, Microsoft MVP for Office Apps & Services and member of M365 PnP team, based in Germany.
Princess Friederike Caroline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt (20 August 1752 – 22 May 1782) was a member of the House of Hesse and by marriage a Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
