Year | Remarks |
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1899 | Nov. 25, launched for Far East service |
1900 | Mar. 21, departed on her maiden voyage from Hamburg to Yokohama via the Suez Canal |
1904 | June 2: departed Hamburg for her first voyage to New York |
1904 | June 12: arrived New York from Hamburg |
1904 | July 17: arrived New York from Hamburg |
1904 | Aug. 14: arrived New York from Hamburg |
1904 | Sept. 11: arrived New York from Hamburg |
1904 | Oct. 9: arrived New York from Hamburg |
1904 | Nov. 14: arrived New York from Hamburg |
1904 | Nov. 19: departed New York for Hamburg via Plmouth and Cherbourg |
1904 | Went to the Reiherstieg Schiffswerfte at Hamburg for rebuilding |
1905 | Mar. 23: departed Cuxhaven as a State Yacht for Kaiser Wilhelm II on his cruise to the Mediterranean, escorted by the armed cruiser Prinz Friedrich Karl. |
1905 | Mar. 27: arrived Lisbon |
1905 | Mar. 30: departed Lisbon |
1905 | Mar. 31: called at Tangier for a few hours |
1905 | Apr. 1: departed Gibraltar for Port Mahon |
1905 | April 3: at Port Mahon, Minorca |
1905 | Apr. 15: departed Genoa for New York |
1905 | Apr. 27: arrived New York from the Mediterranean |
1905 | May 12: called at Plymouth on way from New York to Cherbourg and Hamburg |
1905 | May 28: arrived New York from Hamburg |
1905 | June 15: departed Hamburg for New York via Dover and Boulogne |
1905 | June 24: arrived New York (at the Bar at 4:55 pm) with 158 cabin- and 763 steerage passengers |
1905 | June 29: departed New York for Plymouth, Cherbourg and Hamburg |
1905 | July 8: called at Cherbourg on way to Hamburg |
1905 | July 12: departed Hamburg for a cruise to Scotland, Orkney, Shetland, Iceland and Norway. Scheduled return to Hamburg Aug. 4 |
1905 | Aug. 28: arrived New York from Hamburg |
1905 | Sept. 8: passed the Scilly islands on way from New York to Plymouth, Cherbourg and Hamburg |
1905 | Sept. 24: arrived New York from Hamburg |
1905 | Oct. 21: departed Genoa for New York via Naples (Capt. Burmeister) |
1905 | Oct. 29: arrived Gibraltar from Genoa and Naples on way to New York |
1905 | Nov. 4: arrived New York with 191 cabin- and 671 steerage passengers (Capt. Burmeister) |
1905 | Dec. 21: arrived New York from the Mediterranean |
1906 | Feb. 14: arrived New York the Mediterranean |
1906 | April: painted white and prepared to be used as a State Yacht for Kaiser Wilhelm |
1906 | July 6: at Bergen, Norway |
1906 | July 8: arrived Trondhjem with the Kaiser escorted by the SMS Leipzig and SMS Sleipner. Kaiser Wilhelm was met by King Haakon at Trondhjem |
1906 | July 31: arrived Swinemunde after about 4 weeks of cruising in Northern waters with Kaiser Wilhelm (at the cost of $4.250 a day) |
1906 | Sep. 19: arrived New York from Hamburg |
1906 | Nov. 8: arrived New York the Mediterranean |
1906 | Dec. 21: arrived New York the Mediterranean |
1907 | Feb. 17: arrived New York from the Mediterranean |
1907 | Mar. 27: arrived New York from the Mediterranean |
1907 | Apr. 19: departed Naples for New York, called at Genoa the next day (Capt. Burmeister) |
1907 | May 2: arrived New York from the Mediterranean with 221 cabin- and 1,067 steerage passengers |
1907 | May 7: departed New York for Naples and Genoa |
1907 | June 7: arrived New York from the Mediterranean |
1907 | Aug. 5: arrived New York from the Mediterranean |
1907 | Sept. 4: departed Genoa from New York, called at Naples Sept. 9 (Capt. Burmeister) |
1907 | Sept. 19: arrived New York from the Mediterranean with 806 cabin- and 917 steerage passengers |
1907 | Oct. 16: departed Genoa, and called at Naples the 19th on way to New York (Capt. Burmeister) |
1907 | Nov. 1: arrived New York from the Mediterranean with 242 cabin- and 720 steerage passengers |
1907 | Nov. 20: arrived Genoa from New York |
1907 | Dec. 23: arrived New York from the Mediterranean |
1909 | Mar. 20: arrived New York from Mediterranean ports |
1909 | Mar. 23: departed New York for Naples via Gibraltar carrying Col. Theodore Roosevelt and his African hunt party on their way to East Africa (Capt. Burmeister) |
1909 | Apr. 2: arrived at Gibraltar from the Azores |
1909 | Apr. 5: arrived Naples from Gibraltar |
1914 | August, interned at New York |
1914 | Chartered by the American Red Cross Society to transport American doctors and nurses for service in WW1. She was renamed the Red Cross and painted all white. |
1914 | Sept. 13: departed New York for Falmouth, Havre, Antwerp and Rotterdam with 122 nurses, 33 doctors and medical supplies |
1914 | Sept. 24: arrived Falmouth |
1914 | Oct. 2: arrived Pauillac in the morning from Falmouth |
1914 | Oct. 4: departed Pauillac for Rotterdam |
1914 | Oct. 6: arrived Rotterdam with 6 surgeons, 25 nurses and 41 tons of medical supplies for hospital work among German and Austrian troops |
1914 | Oct. 12: departed Rotterdam for New York direct, with about 150 refugees |
1914 | Oct. 24: arrived New York from Rotterdam |
1914 | Name changed back to "Hamburg" |
1917 | Seized by USA, became US Govt. ship "Powhatan" |
1918 | Dec. 25: departed France for Newport News with troops |
1919 | Jan. 7: arrived Newport News with soldiers from the 127th Field Artillery, 115th Trench and Mortar Battery and a casual company |
1919 | Feb. 19: departed Bordeaux for New York with troops from WW1 |
1919 | March 6: arrived New York from Bordeaux with 2.530 soldiers, the ship was delayed due to an outbreak of influenza soon after departure, which forced her to pull back. No deaths occurred . |
1919 | Apr. 10: was due at Charleston with several units from the 30th Division |
1919 | May 21: arrived Newport News with about 2,000 members of the 29th Division including General Morton |
1919 | June 30: arrived Charleston with about 2,884 soldiers from different units |
1919 | Sept 10: departed New York for Brest |
1919 | Sept. 23: departed Brest for New York. |
1919 | Oct. 4: arrived New York from Brest with about 1,233 casuals from France |
1919 | Dec. 8: departed Brest for New York. |
1919 | Dec. 21: arrived New York from Brest with about 1,000 soldiers |
1920 | Jan. 16: departed the army piers at Hoboken with about 271 passengers for Antwerp (Capt. Randall) |
1920 | Jan. 18: sent distress signals after her boiler room had been flooded, the Cedric and Western Comet took positions near the disabeled ship |
1920 | Jan. 22: passengers transfered to the S/S Northern Pacific which took them back to Hoboken |
1920 | Jan. 27: arrived Halifax in tow, all well with the crew |
1920 | Feb. 29: departed Halifax for New York |
1920 | Mar. 3: arrived New York from Halifax |
1920 | Reconditioned by Morgan Engineering Company of Jersey City |
1920 | Renamed "New Rochelle" chartered by Baltic S.S. Corp. of America |
1920 | Aug. 4: departed on her first voayage as the "New Rochelle" from New York to Danzig |
1920 | Aug. 18: arrived Danzig |
1920 | Sept. 17: arrived New York from Danzig |
1920 | Oct. 2: departed New York for Danzig |
1920 | Nov. 14: arrived New York from Havre with 1,645 passengers, including several Polish refugees (departed Havre on Nov. 2) |
1920 | Nov. 20: departed New York for Danzig and Havre |
1920 | Dec. 29: departed Havre for New York, scheduled arrival Jan. 12 |
1921 | Feb. 11: departed New York for Bremen (and other ports) |
1921 | Feb. 26: arrived Bremen |
1921 | March 10: departed Bremen |
1921 | March 28: arrived New York from Bremen via Boston |
1921 | Renamed "Hudson" for the Unted States Mail Steamship Co. |
1921 | Apr. 9: departed New York for Danzig and Germany |
1921 | Apr. 9: departed New York for Danzig and Hamburg with 1,200 passengers and 4 elephants (U.S. Mail Line) |
1921 | May 7: departed Bremerhaven |
1922 | Apr.: renamed "President Fillmore" |
1928 | Scrapped in USA |
The information listed above is not the complete record of the ship. The information was collected from a multitude of sources, and new information will be added as it emerges |