Captain Henrik E. Sievers collection 1930-1993

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Captain Henrik E. Sievers collection 1930-1993

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The Captain Henrik E. Sievers collection (SAFR 22131, HDC 1580) is a record of voyages, duties, responsibilities, events, correspondence and commentary about the maritime industry and culture between 1930 and 1993.

4 linear feet

eng,

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park (Calif.). Historic Documents Department

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SNAC Resource ID: 6654278

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American President Lines, Ltd.

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Agency History American President Lines, for many years the largest American shipping company in the Pacific, was formed in 1938 from the remnants of the Dollar Steamship Company. Organized in 1900, Dollar spent its first two decades in the transpacific trade as "essentially a tramp operator, whose main cargoes were bulk, low-value merchandise not suitable for the larger and faster passenger-cargo liners of the Pacific Mail Steamship Lines." ...

Sievers, Captain Henrik Edwards

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Historical or Biographical Note Biography: Henrik Edwards Sievers (1911-1999) was born in Marin County and raised in Pacific Grove, Vallejo and San Jose, California. He joined the Naval Reserve in 1928 and attended San Jose State College starting 1929. An active seaman from 1930 to 1975, Mr. Sievers gained Master status in 1943 while working for the Alaska Transportation Company. Early in his career he sailed with the Dollar Steamship Line an...