Description: Passenger List & Color Deck Plan for North German Lloyd SS Columbus Jan 1939 Offered is a passenger list booklet and colorful large deck plan for the north German Lloyd passenger ship SS Columbus. The Columbus, laid down before the start of World War I, was originally to be named Hindenburg. However, her then-sister, originally named Columbus, was handed over to British government and then sold to the White Star Line after the war as part of reparations in 1920. The Allies allowed the Norddeutscher Lloyd her owners, to keep the remaining ship. They decided to give her the name of her departed sister. She measured 32,581 gross register tons, was 775 feet long with 1,750 cabins for luxury, first, second and tourist class passengers. Her maximum speed was 23 knots. "She had been chartered for a number of years by Cooks Travel Agency in New York and cruised into West Indian waters about every two weeks with occasional trips around South America and Africa. She was one of the first liners to have an outside swimming pool installed on her top deck, as well as a platform for night-time dancing. At the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Columbus was ordered to return to Germany at once. On 19 December the British destroyer HMS Hyperion sighted Columbus about 400 miles off the coast of Virginia. The still neutral American heavy cruiser Tuscaloosa was also in the area, and silently observed the two ships. Rather than surrender the ship, her crew scuttled her, and she burned and sank. Her passengers and crew, 576 crewmembers, including boys, stevedores and nurses, were taken aboard Tuscaloosa as rescued seamen, not as prisoners of war as they would have been had the British picked them up. Tuscaloosa took all personnel to New York City. The passenger list is 6” x 8 ½” and 36 pages in stiff paper covers. It has rough edges and small splits along a few folds. Sold together only. See images. Please contact me with any issues prior to leaving negative/neutral Feedback or low detail ratings, as I will always do my best to solve any problems that may come up! Thank you, -Socaloutpost
Price: 54.95 USD
Location: Anaheim, California
End Time: 2024-12-10T01:04:41.000Z
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