OLD SHIPPING LINE PASSES.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1925, Page 24

OLD SHIPPING LINE PASSES.

After fifty-three years of activity the American Line's flag has disappeared from the Atlantic, .slates tho English journal "Syren and Shipping." Tho American Line was one of the oldest and for many years one of the most successful of Ajncv-an shipping concerns Ihe last ship to fly the American Line house flag on the Atlantic was the Minnckahdn, whi o h, on 7th February of this year, was transferred to the Atlantic Transport Line, and on the same day sailedfrom New York far London." lne American Line, it is said, was Tdenhfjed with the best traditions of the United States merchant service, and at tlie close of the last century it played J. very important part id founding the tortunes of Southampton as the leading passenger port of the United Kingdom! Th Wfi S [° rmed in Philadelphi a in 1871. f-i!^, nrst, steamer wa3 cpmmissioned in 1872 and. the fleet rapidly increased until it included such famous vessels as the Pennsylvania., Ohio, Illinois and Indiana. The first-named ship, whose graceful lines were often admired by seafaiers, ended her days on an Italian scrap-heap about two years an-o