Serviciul Maritim Român
The Serviciul Maritim Român (SMR) was a state-owned Romanian shipping company that existed from 1895 to 1945.
The SMR was founded in 1895 with its seat in Bucharest . Over the decades, the shipping company has sailed a total of more than 30 ships, including a dozen passenger and mail ships , the Black Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean . Regular ports of call were Constanța , Varna , Istanbul , Izmir , Thessaloniki , Piraeus , Alexandria , Haifa and Beirut .
Their most famous passenger and combination ships were the Împăratul Traian , the Dacia , the Regele Carol I , the România , the Polonia , the Transilvania , the Basarabia and the four ships of the Emil Kirdorf class bought by Hapag in 1932/33 : Ardeal ( ex Emil Kirdorf ), Alba Iulia (ex Carl Legien ), Suceava (ex Albert Vögler ) and Peleș (ex Adolf von Baeyer ). When, shortly after the company was founded, there were not enough ships of its own available, she chartered the Cobra from Ballin's steamship shipping company in 1896 and 1897 to set up the liner service between Constan Consta and Istanbul .
In 1945 the company was liquidated and replaced by the Soviet- Romanian Sovromtransport , which also took over the important Romanian Danube shipping .
The Dacia
The Împăratul Traian
The Carol I rule
The România as a Russian auxiliary cruiser in 1917
literature
- Neculai Padurariu, Reinhart Schmelzkopf: The sea merchant ships of Romania 1878-1944 (Part I) , In: Strandgut 60/2006, Cuxhaven 2006, pp. 79-142.
- Neculai Padurariu, Reinhart Schmelzkopf: The sea merchant ships of Romania 1878–1944 (Part II) , In: Strandgut 61/2006, Cuxhaven 2006, pp. 101–156.
Web links
Footnotes
- ^ Reinhart Schmelzkopf: Ships and Cuxhaven , 2nd exp. Edition, Wilhelm Heidsiek Verlag, Cuxhaven 2017, ISBN 3-935459-23-8 , p. 65
- ↑ http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro/wiki/Sovromtransport (Romanian)