Menu for the S.S. Europa
Mezzotint view of Nuremberg from a German cruise in 1938.
4pp., Coloured mezzotint view of Hekersteg, Nuremberg, heightened with gilt, coat of arms in gilt, text in German and English, slight marginal toning, lower left corner creased, 4to, Saturday, August 6th, 1938.
The S.S. Europa was a German ocean liner built for the Norddeutscher Lloyd line to work the transatlantic sea route. Powered by advanced high-speed steam turbine engines, and with a low streamlined profile, she was able to cross the Atlantic in just 5 days.
She spent most of World War II inactive and in 1945, she was captured by the Allies and used as a troopship, sailing as the USS Europa (AP-177). After World War II French line Compagnie Générale Transatlantique was awarded the Europa as a war prize to replace the destroyed SS Normandie.

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