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Rivers-class ocean liner : ウィキペディア英語版 | Rivers-class ocean liner
The Rivers class was a class of eleven ocean liners of the Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL), the first class of German express liners. The ships were built between 1881 and 1890, the first nine in Glasgow by John Elder & Co. or the renamed Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, the last two in Stettin by Vulcan. All were named for rivers in Germany. ==Background== In 1878, the British Guion Line introduced the first express liner on the Atlantic run, the . The new ship was larger than other Atlantic liners and with a speed of 16 knots, she cut the travel time between Southampton and New York from ten and a half to eight and a half days. Johann Georg Lohmann, who had at the time been director of Norddeutscher Lloyd for one year, in 1880 contracted with the ''Arizonas builder, John Elder & Co. of Glasgow, to build NDL's own first express liner, in accordance with the company's stated objective of always having the best ships.〔Georg Bessell, ''Norddeutscher Lloyd, 1857–1957: Geschichte einer bremischen Reederei'', Bremen: Schünemann, (), , pp. 46–48 〕
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