Inspiration: Online research found this 1907 photograph of unknown passengers on deck with ship’s life ring, the very same year our ancestors made the voyage.
This photoshopped image shows what could have been!
SS Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
36” dome shaped
In 1907, our family’s ancestors made the life-altering, one-way, transatlantic voyage from Germany to New York on Hamburg-America Line’s magnificent flagship. Built in Poland in 1905, it was the world’s largest luxury ocean liner (1,897 passengers) until Cunard’s ill-fated Lusitania (2,198 passengers) outsized it by 100 feet just one year later. During its 25 years of service, the 678 ft. twin-screw behemoth brought thousands of immigrants to America, served briefly in WW1 as a U.S. troop repatriation ship, and in its final decade sailed as the newly remodeled RMS Empress of Scotland. When designing this sign, I imagined it hanging on the landing as passengers boarded the ship.
Original design. Not for sale.