Home Lines
| Home Lines | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | 1946 |
| resolution | 1988 |
| Reason for dissolution | Purchase by Holland-America Line |
| Seat | Genoa , Italy |
| management | Eugen Eugenides, Nikolaos Vernicos-Eugenides |
| Branch | Shipping company |
The Home Lines was an Italian shipping company , which until its acquisition by the 1946 Holland America Line in 1988 more passenger and cruise ships operating.
history
Home Lines was founded in 1946 in Genoa by the brothers Eugen and Vernicos Eugenides with the support of Svenska Amerika Linien and Cosulich Lines . The first ship of the newly founded shipping company was the former Bergensfjord , which was put into service as Argentina . After the line service to New York was initially the focus of the shipping company, the Home Lines ships were mainly used for cruises from the mid-1960s .
It was not until 1965 that the shipping company's first new building, the Oceanic, was put into service. With the Atlantic and the Homeric , further large newbuildings followed in 1982 and 1986. In 1988 Home Lines was taken over by Holland America Line and dissolved that same year.
Passenger ships
| year | Surname | tonnage | shipyard | Status / fate |
| 1946 (1913) | Argentina | 10699 GRT | Cammell, Laird & Company , Birkenhead | Sold in 1953, scrapped in 1959 |
| 1948 (1905) | Brazil | 10,757 GRT | Alexander Stephen and Sons , Glasgow | Wrecked in 1955 |
| 1948 (1928) | Italia | 20223 GRT | Blohm & Voss , Hamburg | Sold in 1964, scrapped in 1965 |
| 1949 (1927) | Atlantic | 17226 GRT | William Cramp and Sons , Philadelphia | Sold in 1954, scrapped in 1978 |
| 1954 (1931) | Homeric | 18017 GRT | Fore River Shipyard , Braintree | Wrecked in 1974 after a fire |
| 1965 | Oceanic | 38,772 GRT | Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, Monfalcone | Sold in 1986, scrapped in 2012 |
| 1973 (1964) | Doric | 25,338 GRT | Chantiers de l'Atlantique , Saint-Nazaire | Sold in 1980, dropped in 2001 |
| 1982 | Atlantic | 35143 GRT | CNIM , La Seyne-sur-Mer | Sold in 1988 |
| 1986 | Homeric | 42092 GRT | Meyer shipyard , Papenburg | Sold in 1988 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Eugene Eugenides biography, Greek Shipping Hall of Fame, accessed August 31, 2019
- ↑ Harald Focke : "The ITALIA slid up as white as a swan". The Home Lines New York Liner first came to Cuxhaven 65 years ago . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 807 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven March 2017, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 5.9 MB ; accessed on July 17, 2019]).