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The Roosevelt Steamship Company, also known as the Roosevelt Line, was an American company that operated a number of shipping lines from 1920 to 1940. The company began as a manager of a small number of freighters sailing between the United States and Great Britain. It later switched to servicing routes from the U.S. to the Pacific and Far East, including Australia, India, China and Japan. By the late 1920s it was operating 24 diesel and diesel electric freighters to the Pacific, one of the first U.S. freighter companies to widely adopt these technologies. In 1930, the company added a Baltimore to Bremen transatlantic passenger-and-freight mail service.

In 1931, the company took over International Mercantile Marine which became Roosevelt-IMM. The Roosevelt Steamship Company was wound up as a separate entity in 1940, and in 1943 Roosevelt-IMM was merged into United States Lines.

History

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The Roosevelt Steamship Company was founded in 1920 by Teddy Roosevelt's second son Kermit and two partners, Russell Geldman, a lawyer, and Max Zaliels, a businessman with experience in the maritime industry. The company was incorporated in Delaware on 13 November 1920 for the sum of $1,000,000, with the stated aim to "build, own and operate steamships".[1]



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1920

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1924

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  • "New World Tour Lines Come Here", Los Angeles Times, 8 February 1924. Los Angeles Harbor will be the Pacific terminal for the new American-Japanese around-the-world service in which the Roosevelt Steamship Company and the Kokusal Kisen Kaisha, of Kobe, will operate eight 10,000-ton express freighters, according to word re-...
  • "Ashes of Navy Officer Given to Ocean Today", Los Angeles Times, 28 May 1924 (subscription required). The SlIverelm, first of five now built In Great Britain for the Roosevelt Steamship Com- pany s around-the-world freight e, has arrived In Baltimore to lend ...

1926

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1927

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1928

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  • "Improved Cargo Service", The Argus, 30 January 1928, page 17. west loqu from n.o. to inaugurate new regular us-oz service, tho roosevelt line steamers were previously frequent visitors.
  • "Shipping Notes", The Argus, 12 June 1928, page 19. steamer egrement, breakdown of mv tampa, company policy to replace w. diesel, route of regular sailings oz-india-n.o. galveston etc.
  • "Diesel Freighter Leaves", New York Times, 8 December 1928 (subscription required). The newly converted Diesel electric freighter Courageous, which hau been assigned by the Shipping Board to the Roosevelt Line, left for Baltimore to take on ...

1929

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  • "Offers Motor Ships For Line To Europe", New York Times, 12 April 1929 (subscription required). The seven ships to be allocated to the Roosevelt line will probably lie used as replacements. That line now has twenty-one motor shins in service and those ...
  • "Shipping News and Activities at Los Angeles Harbor", Los Angeles Times, 6 March 1929 (subscription required). Assignment of the United States Shipping Board's new Diesel-electric freighters, Courageous. Triumph and Defiance, to the Roosevelt Line for its New York-Los Angeles-Orient service was announced yesterday by Edward A. Kelly. vice-president in charge of operations of the Shipping... Three Dieselized Freighters Allocated to Run Will Ply Between Near West and New York City Los Angeles Only Point of Call on This Coast
  • Cave, Wayne B. (1929-06-20): "Shipping News and Activities at Los Angeles Harbor", Los Angeles Times (subscription required). Since con- version, they have been operated in North Atlantic-Orient service by the Roosevelt Line. Los Angeles Harbor will be the outbound terminus of the ...
  • Drake, Waldo (1929-03-18): "Shipping News and Activities at Los Angeles Harbor", Los Angeles Times (subscription required). Selection of these eight vessels follows allocation, to the Roosevelt Line last week for North Atlantic- Gulf-trans-Paciflc service, of eight converted ...
  • "Trip Today To Test Converted Liner", New York Times, 26 June 1929 (subscription required). west alsek, to diesel. The ship is a freighter and has been assigned by .the board to the Roosevelt Line, as was the West Alsek, which was tested last Wednesday with complete ...
  • "Vessel's Maiden Voyage Eight Years After Launching", The Argus, 21 September 1929, page 21. info about diesel Oldham, also N.O. Galveston, City of Ellwood, Wichita, Potter, Ward, Jeff. Davis - all old shipping board steamers. run for "Atlantic Pioneer" line. 2nd officer Kummell hero of Kroonland rescue.
  • "Shipping Notes", The Argus, 30 October 1929, page 19. oldham for us and canada w/ general cargo.

1930

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  • "Signs Roosevelt Line Mail Contract", New York Times, 18 May 1930 (subscription required). Postmaster General Brown today signed the contract with the Roosevelt Steamship Company of New York for carrying Baltimore to Hamburg ...
  • "Two Lines Get Ship Loans", New York Times, 12 July 1930 (subscription required). ... for operation between Baltimore and Hamburg under the terms of an ocean mail contract recently awarded the Roosevelt Steamship Company of New York, ...
  • "Speeds Rebuilding Five Ships At Kearny", New York Times, 26 December 1930 (subscription required). The work of reconstructing the five United States Shipping Board vessels, Eclipse, Steadfast, Archer, Independence and Victorious, which were turned over to the Baltimore Mail Steamship Company last April, is reported progressing steadily in the yards of the Federal Shipbuilding Company, Kearny, N.J., at a total ...

1931

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  • "Business: Biggest Pool", Time, 2 November 1931. big merger of roosevelt-dollar etc, half sale of roosevelt, list of ship lines controlled.

1933

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  • "Freighter Put In Dry Dock", New York Times, 18 June 1934 (subscription required). She is on of the American Pioneer fleet owned by the Roosevelt Line, which make voyages to Australia, China, Japan and India, and back to New York via the ...

1937

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  • "Dislocation Australasian Trade", The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 January 1937. "only principal American group" operating from Atlantic Coast of U.S. to Australia.


1938

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1939

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  • "Brave Raging Seas To Rescue 12 From Vessel", Chicago Daily Tribune, 9 January 1939 (subscription required). Eleven passengers aboard the grounded steamer Hoegh Silvercrest were rescued today by men from her sister ship, Silveryew, who dared towering seas in lifeboats. Officials of the Roosevelt Steamship company, Manila agent for the Silver- crest, said the vessel s exact condition probably would not be known until the ...
  • "Bernstein Line Sells More Ships", New York Times, 24 July 1939 (subscription required). The Maritime Commission and the Roosevelt Steamship Company also announced yesterday that ships of the American Pioneer Line, owned by the government and ...

also, sale of American Pioneer to American Export Lines in December.

ships

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  • "Shipping Notes", The Argus, 20 October 1930, page 15. seminole, from ny via p. canal.
  • "Shipping Notes", The Argus, 11 July 1930, page 13. mv new orleans, general cargo.
  • "Shipping Notes", The Argus, 11 February 1930, page 17. first oz voyage new ship mv wichita, 14 knots passage.