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Austrian Maritime Rivals

Christopher Smith

978-1-913015-33-6

£65.00

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The Danube Steam Navigation Company and The Austrian Lloyd in the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea 1834 to 1849.

In the fourth and fifth decades of the 19th century, the Austrian-based Danube Steam Navigation Company (D.D.S.G.) embarked on the ambitious venture to expand the range of the company beyond the Danube River into the Black Sea and the eastern Mediterranean. The D.D.S.G. was soon joined on many routes by the Austrian Lloyd. The rivalry of these two Austrian companies on the high seas lasted 10 years and ended only when the Austrian Lloyd purchased the maritime assets of the D.D.S.G. This book follows the rivalry of the two companies amid important historical events of the period, and provides an abundance of newly discovered information for the analysis of postal history of both companies.