Research Catalog

Title

The Kaiser's merchant ships in World War I / by William Lowell Putnam.

Author

Putnam, William Lowell.

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2001.

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Details

Description

viii, 248 p. : ill., maps, ports., facsims.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Germany's merchant marine fleet - the second largest in the world prior to 1914 - played an unintended but decisive role in that nation's defeat in World War I. There were those ships that went to war for the Kaiser on the high seas, those that stayed at home or otherwise played no significant part, and those that were commandeered (mostly in 1917 and by the United States) and used against Germany." "This is a well illustrated history, both practical and romantic, of the association each ship may have had with famous people and events of the war, and of the fates of the ships that comprised that fleet."--Jacket.

Subject

• Merchant ships > Germany > History > 20th century
• World War, 1914-1918 > Naval operations, German
• Passenger ships > United States > History > 20th century
• World War, 1914-1918 > Naval operations, American

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Leadership -- Inventory -- The Ships That Went Overseas to War -- The Great Kaiser -- Cap Trafalgar -- Kronprinz Wilhelm -- Prinz Eitel Friedrich -- Batavia and Berlin -- The Troopships of America -- The Crown Princess -- The Litigation -- Kaiser Wilhelm II -- The Barbarossa Class -- The Heavyweights -- Presidents and Cities -- Lesser Players at War -- The Stay-at-Homes -- The Second Wave -- Mowe -- Eagles, Meteors and Wolves -- The Last Gasp.

ISBN

0786409231 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001031221

OCLC

46732396

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library