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IMPERATOR's damaged Eagle (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Roger said:
    The eagle was later removed and she chnaged to US and the UK owners and changed her name see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperator_%28ship%29
  • Wystan said:
    The eagle's wings were torn off during an Atlantic storm, in early 1914. Rather than restore them, the company removed the entire figurehead.
  • swanq said:
    Picture of figurehead (or possibly of a model) with wings:
    Figurehead of IMPERATOR (LOC)
    and one that is definitely on the ship
    IMPERATOR - figurehead (LOC)
  • swanq said:
    The damage was on a trans-Atlantic crossing from Bremen to New York, arriving in New York on March 19, 1914. See next day's NYT: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30716FD3A5B13738...
  • The Library of Congress said:
    Thanks all, for your information on the figurehead and when it was damaged. We will add some of it to the image description when we update.

Part of figurehead - IMPERATOR (LOC)

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  • Tom Wigley said:
    From wikipedia: SS Imperator was an ocean liner built for the Hamburg America Line (German: Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft or HAPAG) launched in 1912. She was the first of a trio of successively larger Hamburg America ships that included SS Vaterland and SS Bismarck built by the line for transatlantic passenger service. At the time of her launch in May 1912, she was the largest passenger ship in the world superseding the RMS Olympic. During World War I, the ship remained in port in Hamburg. After the war she was briefly commissioned into the United States Navy as USS Imperator (ID-4080) and employed for returning American troops from Europe. Following her U.S. Navy service, Imperator was handed over to Britain's Cunard Line as part of war reparations, and she sailed as the flagship RMS Berengaria for the final decade of her career. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Imperator
  • technogeo said:
    The slogan on the globe reads: "Mein Feld ist die Welt" (My Domain is the World), the well-known motto of HAPAG founder Albert Ballin. The words rhyme in German.
  • technogeo said:
    Here's a color postcard of the ship: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/15283643@N04/4101365085/]
  • Kilted Cowboy said:
    the figurehead would eventually be ripped off in a severe Atlantic storm
  • technogeo said:
    It's a wonder Robert Ballard hasn't found it...yet.

IMPERATOR docking (LOC)

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