Volume 7 , Issue 28

Kronprinz Wilhelm Ship...

".....When finished on August 25th 1901, the new Kronprinz Wilhelm was a ship very similar to the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. As her predecessor, the Kronprinz had four funnels, characteristically grouped in two pairs. But the Kronprinz Wilhelm was a larger ship than the Kaiser, about ten feet longer and some 600 tons larger. However, she was by no means the largest ship in the world. That title was at the time held by White Star Line's 21,035-tonner Celtic.

When it came to the interiors of the Kronprinz Wilhelm, they outmatched those on board her older sister. The same man who had decorated the Kaiser, Johannes Poppe, was chosen also for the Kronprinz and he set out The Library and Writing Room on board the Kronprinz Wilhelm. to overdo himself. And so he did. When the Kaiser and the Kronprinz were later given two sisters - the Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Kronprinzessin Cecilie - Poppe decorated them too. With every new ship, there was more luxury, more ornamentation, more marble and more gilt. Norddeutscher Lloyd certainly spared no expenses to make their ships the best that Germany had to offer. To cross the Atlantic in a deluxe suite on board the Kronprinz Wilhelm in 1901 could cost as much as $2,000.

..... The massive European emigration provided the shipping companies with an almost unlimited flow of steerage passengers. The Kronprinz Wilhelm was designed to take on 1,761 passengers, of which 1,054 would travel in third class..... it could cost as little as $10 to reach the Americas with the Kronprinz Wilhelm" -- http://www.greatoceanliners.net/kpw.html -- Also Visit Ellis Island website: http://www.ellisisland.org/default.asp   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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