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2 unusual facts about Hapag-Lloyd Flug


Hapag-Lloyd

Hapag-Lloyd founded the charter airline Hapag-Lloyd Flug in 1972, buying a few Boeing 727s to fly its cruise passengers from Germany to the cruises' ports of call.

Hapag-Lloyd Flug

Hapag-Lloyd Flug (between 2005 and 2007 also marketed as Hapagfly) was an airline based in Langenhagen, Lower Saxony, Germany.


Bremen Island

The name "Bremen Island" was proposed by Bärbel Krämer of Hapag-Lloyd.

C. Ledyard Blair

At the outbreak of the war in 1914, Blair was on the SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie, a North German Lloyd ocean liner, sailing from New York City to Plymouth, England.

German submarine Bremen

Bremen was built together with her sister ship Deutschland in 1916 by the Deutsche Ozean-Reederei, a private shipping company created for the enterprise, a subsidiary company of the North German Lloyd shipping company (now Hapag-Lloyd) and the Deutsche Bank.

Hapag

Hamburg America Line, a former German shipping company: Hamburg Amerikanische Packetfahrt Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG)

Hapag-Lloyd Express

Hapag-Lloyd Express (previously also marketed as HLX.com) was a no-frills, high-frequency, express airline based in Langenhagen, Germany.

Hapag-Lloyd Flight 3378

There was not sufficient fuel to reach Munich, however, as the FMS was not designed to take into account the extra drag produced by a half-raised landing gear.

Hermann Oelrichs

Hermann Oelrichs (June 8, 1850, Baltimore, Maryland – September 1, 1906, aboard SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Atlantic Ocean), was an American businessman, multimillionaire, and agent of Norddeutsche Lloyd shipping.

Hörnum

The first regular buildings were erected due to the construction of a Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) pier and the island railway in the early 20th century, those being the meanwhile demolished "Island Station" (Inselbahnhof) and the former HAPAG building, which was later the "Hotel Bettina" and at last the "Hörnumer Fischerreuse".

Imperator-class ocean liner

The Imperator class ocean liners were a series of three ocean liners designed for the Hamburg America Line, commonly known as HAPAG.

Wernesgrüner

By 1910 the company had established itself throughout Germany and the Netherlands, and was even served on the renowned Hapag-Lloyd ships that ran from Hamburg to America.


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