To the Far East with Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen in the 1930s…

Sam Chambers of Sinoship sourced these lovely 1930s images from the Norddeutscher Lloyd line while in Hamburg (near Norddeutscher’s old base of Bremen) recently….

Enjoy – and note perhaps the spellings of Dalny (Dalian) and Tsingtau (Qingdao, and a former German treaty port of course)…also note the putting in at the port of Moji. I have rarely seen Moji on schedules from this time (or any other) with nearby Kobe (250 miles or so away) being the normal port of call. However, it was a highly western influenced port and town from the late nineteenth century as seen in the photographs here.