Royal Hollandsche Lloyd

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The Dutch shipping company Koninklijke Hollandsche Lloyd NV (KHL) also Koninklijke Hollandse Lloyd , (German Royal Dutch Lloyd ) had its seat in Amsterdam and existed from 1908 to 1936, its successor company until 1981. The main trading area of ​​the shipping company was the Europe-South America service .

history

The company's roots lie in Zuid-Amerika Lijn (ZAL), which was founded in Amsterdam in 1899 and was involved in liner shipping to South America. The company was dissolved in 1908 after it got into financial difficulties. At the instigation of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij , the Koninklijke Hollandsche Lloyd was founded as a successor company with better capital resources. In 1914 the company had five passenger ships between 7,291 and 13,911 GRT ( Hollandia , Frisia , Zeelandia , Gelria , Tubantia ) and four cargo ships whose names ended in -land .

After the sinking of its largest ship to date, the Tubantia (13,911 GRT, 1913 by Alexander Stephen & Sons ) by a German submarine, the shipping company acquired the two 19,000 GRT passenger ships Johann Heinrich Burchard from Hapag in 1916 , Completed in 1915 by Joh. C. Tecklenborg in Geestemünde , and William O´swald , whose further construction was stopped after the 1914 launch at AG Weser in Bremen . Both ships were also completed after the war and were used as Limburgia and Brabantia for the KHL between Amsterdam and the ports on La Plata from 1920 to 1922 . In 1922, the KHL sold the ships to United American Lines (UAL), which was cooperating with Hapag, and operated them between Hamburg and New York under the names Reliance and Resolute . On July 27, 1926, Hapag bought back ships and continued to use them under the American name. In 1922, the KHL procured two 10,000 GRT, 16 kn fast turbine ships from British shipyards with the newbuildings Orania and Flandria . The KHL sold its two oldest passenger ships, the Hollandia and Frisia of less than 7,500 GRT, to Hapag, which they briefly deployed to Central America under the names Hammonia and Holsatia .

In the course of the global economic crisis , the Koninklijke Hollandsche Lloyd became insolvent in 1935. The Flandria was sold to France, the Gelria (13868 BRT / 1913), Tubantia's sister ship , to Italy; the shipping company's oldest passenger ship, the Zeelandia (7995 GRT / 1910), was finally scrapped. The new Orania building was lost in 1934 after a collision in Leixões .

In 1936, Wm. H. Müller & Co. from Rotterdam and the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij (KNSM) from Amsterdam founded the Naamloze Vennootschap tot voortzetting van den Koninklijken Hollandschen Lloyd (German about stock corporation for the continuation of the Royal Dutch Lloyd ), which is in common usage was further referred to as Koninklijke Hollandsche Lloyd. The shipping company was managed by Wm. H. Müller & Co.

After the Second World War, the shipping company Wm. H. Müller & Co. discontinued its passenger services in 1958 and also withdrew from the freight business in 1970. The KHL was handed over to KNSM and continued there as an independent shipping company, Müller himself was taken over by Scheepvaartbedrijf Kroonburgh NV in Rotterdam. In 1981, the KNSM joined Nedlloyd , which was founded in 1970, and the KHL was also incorporated there.

literature

  • Wilke, J. Th .; Halfweg, S. (Ed.): Neerlands Scheepsbouw en Scheepvaart . Deel II - Scheepvaart. Uitgevers Wyt, Rotterdam 1946.
  • Meylof, Louis: Vrachtscheepen . Rebo, Sassenheim 1987, ISBN 90-366-0246-7 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rothe, p. 148.
  2. ^ Kludas, Vol. III, p. 102.
  3. ↑ Information on Flandria ( Memento of May 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Accident of the Orania