![]() After Cuba, the captain, Gustav Schröder, went to the United States and Canada, trying to find a nation to take the Jews in, but both nations refused. The refugees first tried to disembark in Cuba but were denied permission to land. Louis carried more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in 1939 intending to escape anti-Semitic persecution. ĭuring the build-up to World War II, the St. Louis was built for both transatlantic liner service and for leisure cruises. Louis regularly sailed the trans-Atlantic route from Hamburg to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and New York City, and made cruises to the Canary Islands, Madeira, Spain and Morocco. Her sister ship, MS Milwaukee, was also a diesel powered motor vessel owned by the Hamburg America Line. Louis was a diesel-powered passenger ship properly referred to with the prefix MS or MV, built by the Bremer Vulkan shipyards in Bremen for HAPAG, better known in English as the Hamburg America Line. ![]() MAN diesels, twin triple-blade propellersĩ73 passengers (270 cabin, 287 tourist, 416 third) īremer-Vulkan Shipyards in Bremen, Germany ![]()
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