S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm II
Gustav Mahler aboard Gustav Mahler aboard at the piano Steamship S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm II S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm II, named for the German Emperor, was a 19,361 gross ton passenger ship built at Stettin, Germany, completed in the spring of 1903. The ship was seized by the U.S. Government during World War I, and subsequently served […]
S.S. Kronprinzessin Cecilie
Gustav Mahler aboard Steamship S.S. Kronprinzessin Cecilie SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie was an ocean liner built in Stettin, Germany in 1906 for North German Lloyd that had the largest steam reciprocating machinery ever fitted to a ship. The last of four ships of the Kaiser class, she was also the last German ship to have been […]
S.S. Amerika
Gustav Mahler aboard Steamship S.S. Amerika Belfast, Northern Ireland, by the noted shipbuilding firm of Harland and Wolff, Ltd. Built for the Hamburg America Line, the steamer entered transatlantic service in the autumn of 1905, when she departed Hamburg on 11 October, bound for the United States. A slightly larger sister ship, S.S. Kaiserin Auguste […]