SS Bremen German Liner 1929-1941

Dedicated to the great passenger liner SS Bremen, the ship that took the Blue Riband from the mighty RMS Mauretania in 1929.
She was set afire by a drunken sailor in 1941 while berthed in Bremerhaven during World War Two

Soundtrack: Going Home by Mary Fahl (Gods and Generals soundtrack)

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• Bremen
• passenger
• liner
• atlantic
• ship
• blue
• riband
• Mauretania
• nazism
• hitler
• WW2
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• lloyd
• germany
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[AutoSparker]

I purchased a lifeboat binnacle from (?) the SS Bremen 30 years ago from an antique dealer who purchased it from a Capt. Young. The dealer associated a date of 1912 with it, Ideas?

[willembrock]

there had been 5 Bremens. This is the fourth. The third was a two funnelled coal burner, famous because in 1912 she crossed Titanic debris field the day after the disaster

[buzzbound]

The Bremen had the better, more modern interiors. Europa's interiors were designed by Troost, who was conservative and old - and it showed. Bremen was an Art Deco and Bauhaus triumph.

[willembrock]

I always thought that there were very few differences between Bremen's and Europa's interiors...but in the book "The Liner" by Philip dawson is written that both artists keep themselves far from embracing the Bauhaus artistic movements...Very innovative interiors, but not too much.

[sweetnessboy1]

The modern day cruise ships are hideous, I love the old ocean liner look to them, they are so beautiful.

[willguyer]

Willembrock - thank you so much for this stirring tribute to a great old lady. I had just sat down this evening to start Chapter 3 of Herman Wouk's "The Winds of War". Pug and Rhoda Henry are about to set sail for Germany on the S. S. Bremen. I wanted to see what she looked like and stumbled upon this video from a Google search. Thank you for showing her in all her glory. Those were the days and old romantics like me wish I'd been born 60 years earlier. Thanks. Good work.

[Legilimentable]

my grandma told me the story of how the ship sunk... it is the childhood stories that impressed me the most, cant tell why... it wouldnt nearly be as sad if it had been for the war but the sinking was so completely pointless... my grandma told me that her mom once toppled down on her buttocks when they were at the pier and the bremen tooted :-D

[Legilimentable]

@SuperTitanicfreak it actually wasnt sunk because of the war... my grandma lives in Bremerhaven (home harbour of the SS Bremen) and she told me the story that there was one young waiter who had been snubbed by his boss and in effect he set fire to the ship... it is rumoured that they dragged the ship ruins a short way down the river Weser and there it sunk and has been lying on the ground since then... you're supposed to see a bit of the chimney but i could never make it out

[gibby101sweet1]

ss bremen was a very beautiful ship i am glade to know she was a german ocean liner

[SuperTitanicfreak]

I know Germany was the enemy is World War 2, but why did the Germans Liners have to suffer for it?

[SuperTitanicfreak]

No. She was burn in the harbour by her own Cabin Boy. He was then put to death.

[MrTitanic9]

let me guess this ship went into the war and sink

[Zickcermacity]

I have the pleassure to have had a relative(my dear Grandmother, RIP) who returned to America aboard this version of the Bremen in 1931 or 32. A sleek classic German liner even after her funnels were heightened to carry smoke above and away from her afterdecks.

[jimmyzat]

One of my favorite liners. Well done; long live her memory.

[thetitanicadventure4]

Poor bremen she is hopefully in heaven where she can sail on forever

[philco6505]

A fine tribute. Someone mentioned the Rex. I'm an American of Italian and German descent, so maybe it's more personal. But, the Bremen and the Rex were incredible. Include the Normandie, and you only begin the death toll of so many great liners during WWII