The first class lounge on board HAPAG’s SS Albert Ballin (1922), showing off the cool elegance this
The first class lounge on board HAPAG’s SS Albert Ballin (1922), showing off the cool elegance this ship’s class (which also included the Deutschland, the New York, and the Hamburg) exhibited. Source: Hiveminer on flickr Named after the company’s legendary director Albert Ballin, her name had to be changed after the Nazi’s rise to power in 1933, because of Ballin’s jewish descent. She continued operating as Hansa. After the war she was confiscated by the Soviet government. Under the name Sovetskiy Sojuz (in 1980 she was again renamed into Tobolsk) she operated between Wladiwostok and Petropavlosk until 1982, when she was scrapped in Hong Kong. -- source link
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