American Scantic Line

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The American Scantic Line was an American shipping company that existed from 1918 to 1965.

history

The American Scantic Line was founded in April 1918, during the First World War, by the United States Shipping Board to set up a liner service from the United States to Scandinavia and other Baltic ports. The US government provided ships that were operated by the New York shipping company Moore-McCormack .

In 1927, Moore & McCormack took over the American Scantic Line from the United States Shipping Board with a fleet of six Hog Islanders . The ten-year contract included an extension to Russian and Polish ports. For this purpose, the four standard freighters Bird City , Schenectady , Chickasaw and Saguache were converted into combi ships with 72 passenger seats in 1932 and put into service as Scanpenn , Scanyork , Scanmail and Scanstates .

With the Ocean Dominion Steamship Company American Scantic established in September 1934 the American Caribbean service that on 19 October 1944 by the ScanMail started in November 1934 by the Scan Penn continued. In the spring of 1935 the Scanmail was returned to the American Scantic Line and in 1937 the cooperation with the Ocean Dominion Steamship Company ended and in early 1938 most of the American Scantic Line's cargo ships were given the prefix "Mormac-".

In August 1945 the American Scantic Line opened a freight service between Philadelphia, Gothenburg, Stockholm and Helsinki, which was expanded by March 1946 to weekly departures from New York to Norway, Sweden and other Baltic Sea ports by freighters with twelve passenger places. Also in 1946, the C4 ship Marine Perch was converted into a troop transport and used on the route from New York to Oslo and Gothenburg. The last voyages were combined with the United States Lines and additional port calls in Bremen. Then the Marine Perch was given to the American Export Lines and replaced by the ship Marine Jumper, which was chartered together with the United States Lines, by the fall of 1947 .

In the post-war period, Moore & McCormack concentrated on the use of American standard ships with up to twelve passenger seats. From November 1962 the Scantic service was extended to Rotterdam and Antwerp. Exports from the Benelux countries and parts of western Germany absorbed losses from Eastern European trade. In addition, Scantic Service offered spring cruises from Scandinavia and other Baltic Sea ports as well as Northern Europe to Argentina and Brazil.

After losses in the passenger and freight business, Moore & McCormack discontinued the American Scantic liner service in 1965.

Lines

  • 1927: New York to Copenhagen and Helsinki
  • 1937: New York to Götenborg, Copenhagen, Gdynia, Stockholm and Helsinki. Return journeys via Helsinki, Leningrad, Gdynia and Copenhagen
  • 1949: US east coast ports to Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Poland and Finland.
  • 1962: US east coast ports to Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Finland, Rotterdam and Antwerp.

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