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Sunday, 26 August 2012

German steamship Albert Vögler launched at Wilhelmshaven, Germany according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad dated 13 April 1923

An item reported that at Wilhelmshaven the steamship Albert Vogler with a deadweight of 8,200 tons was launched for the Hugo Stinnes Line to be used on the line Hamburg-Rotterdam-Japan.(1)

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1. Probably named after the German liberal politician Albert Vögler (8 February 1877 Essen- 14 April 1945 Herdeck) which was also a industrialist and entrepeneur. See for the German shipping company on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_stinnes_schiffahrt