s.s. Kronprinzessin Cecilie - Interior - North German Lloyd NDL
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- 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.[1][2] The last of four ships of the kaiser class, she was also the last German ship to have been built with four funnels. She was engaged in transatlantic service between her homeport of Bremen and New York until the outbreak of World War I.
On 4 August 1914, at sea after departing New York, she turned around and put into Bar Harbor, Maine, where she later was interned by the neutral United States. After that country entered the war in April 1917, the ship was seized and turned over to the United States Navy, and renamed USS Mount Vernon (ID-4508). While serving as a troop transport, Mount Vernon was torpedoed in September 1918. Though damaged, she was able to make port for repairs and returned to service. In 1919, after the end of the war, she was laid up until 1940, when she was scrapped at Baltimore.
Tonnage: 19,400 GT
Length: 208.89 m (685 ft 4 in) LBP
Beam: 22.00 m (72 ft 2 in)
Draft: 31 ft 1 in (9.47 m)
Speed: 23-24 knots (43-44 km/h)
Capacity: 1,741
Title: Potpurri from the "Zigeunerbaron"
I'm glad to be able to see these German liners on your channel, George. I'm from a German background but know almost nothing of my family, some of whom were named Breier. In watching these videos I'm getting a sense of where my family came from or may have come from, a sense of context, and maybe I'm seeing some of my own relatives in the photos!
Wow, I had no idea how beautiful these German four stackers were inside. I haven't seen too many interior pictures of the Kaiser Wilhelm II or Kronprinzessin Cecile. These ships were works of art.
I always will find this video to fascinate me and further my love and appreciation for the Prussian ships, and the style of hull used from the Four Flyers to amazing ships like the Kronprinzessin Cecilie. Looking at the photographs and paintings showcased, I find how immense there is of a change of interiors from the late Victorian style that the Four Flyers have, compared to this and the interiors of S.S Amerika and Bismarck, even in a sense the Prinzessin Victoria Luise.
Awesome video! Very stirring music that lifts your spirits towards the finale.
Fantastic stuff. My favorite German liner. She was really something.
I noticed that many photos have the name "Byron" in the corner in his distinctive backhand writing (I wonder if he was left-handed). I think his first name was Joseph. He was from an affluent New York family and documented the interiors of ocean liners and houses and businesses. He preserved a lot of history for people who appreciate ocean liners and buildings.
This is power of German quality. All of those beautiful ocean liners: “Grosser Kurfürst”, “Kaiser Wilhelm der Große”, “Vaterland” and “Bremen”. And the list goes on...
SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie was such a lovely ship.... made immortal by Sandra Paretti's novel " Das Zaubershiff " in that book she features Cecilie's escape to Bar Harbour at the outbreak of WWI, under the command of Charles Polack.... a very good novel....
Glad to see you can show us her interior.... do you have any pics of the engine room ? her two 20.000 Hp engines where the biggest reciprocating engines ever made for a ship...
From what I've heard Kronprinzessin Cecilie was the largest of her sisters and if she would be rebuilt she would be upgraded to be even more beautiful as in there was supposed to be two American Four-Funneled liners to be built that were to be 1000 feet long but similar to Cecilie (with space between funnels 2 and 3) and they were to be named S.S. Boston and S.S. Independence but they never passed designing stages
This was lovely indeed.
My grandfather came from Poland to the US on this ship. I am so grateful to be able to see this beautiful ocean liner.
Just in the few years between the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and the Kronpinzessin Cecilie I see a change in interior styles: some have the elaborate, ornate look of the 1897 KWDG while others have the simpler, more restrained look that would be seen on the Imperator, Vaterland, and Bismarck.
Hi Georg
Well done. Love these ships.
The dining room was stunning . Its so very hard to think of the Germans house frous traveling on this glamorous ship !!!
Maybe not as grand as it's English counterparts for the era but sculptured napkins in steerage, now that's class German-style!!!
Unlike the White Star Line and Cunard who's ships had a more beautiful modern and bright interior compared to the German liners never the less the German liners had a beauty of it's own. The ships exterior and slender built made them a beauty different but a beauty in there own right.
i love German liners, i like your channel, anyone knows were i can't find Kronprinzessin Cecile's Longitudinal deck plans i can't find anywhere
Thank you! You should see the Bremen or the Vaterland then.
Le Kronprinzessin Cecilie est le plus beau paquebot Allemand jamais construis,il est suivi du Kaiser Wilhelm 2,du Kronprinz Wilhelm et du Kaiser Wilhelm der grosse.Avec ses 19400 tonnes,il est le plus gros du quator et le deuxième plus long derrière le Kaiser Wilhelm 2 de 215,9 mètres.C'est le plus luxueux des quatre.
Kronprinzessin Cecilie mesurait en fait un cinquième de mètre de plus que le Kaiser Wilhelm II.
You can tell this was a German ship. She manages to look both ornate and frumpy at the same time.
LOL!!
Actually, not shown, some of the private suites were done in the German modern style that was quite innovative for the time. A book I have on 20th century furniture shows a cabin on this ship designed by Richard Reimerschmid, it’s dated 1914 and may be a redecoration since that was 7 years after the ship came out.
Frumpy?! She's a beauty.
Does anyone have deck plans for her?
I'm surprised NDL did not equip her with the already proven superiority of turbines. That would've proved more economical, smoother and faster (giving the forth coming Lusitania and Mauritania a run for their money)
Inpri Mauretania and Lusitania were first two liners equipped with Parsons Turbines and both were completed a year after Kronprinzessin Cecile. Even when it happened Parsons Turbine was something new used only on Dreadnought, destroyers and Town-class scout cruisers before. After that Germans mounted their AEG Turbines firstly on Helgoland Battleships (1910/11), Emden class Light cruisers (1908) and from that point for example on Imperator class liners (1912-14). Even in 1912 Titanic had triple expansion piston engines because some companies were reluctant of turbines because even though more efficient and powerful, they were much less reliable than triple expansion piston engines. But remember - Mauretania and Lusitania were first to fit steam turbines and they were completed a year after the last of Four Flyers :)
Mauretania and Lusitania had an imense problem with vibration due to their turbines and transmition system, therefore third and second classes rooms next to the machinery were almost unhabitable
@@emperorjulian2159 Actually Cunard's Carmania was the first "big" or "major" liner with turbines. She and her sister Caronia were to test if turbines were superior. Caronia didn't have turbines. They came around 2 years before Lusitania and Mauretania.
Das alberne Getute ist schlichtweg kindisch!