HESSE
915
Sea-goiug vessels (exclusive of fishing vessels), above 17*65 registered tons, belonging to Hamburg, December 31 : —
Year
Sailing
- Vessels
Steamers
Total
No. of
1
Crews
No. 470
Tonnage
No. 610
Tonnage 1,256,449
No. 1,080
Tonnage
i
1907
271,661
1,528,110
29,536
1908
490
271,373
616
1,287,240
1,106
1,558,613
' —
1909
510
278,126
617
1,313,682
1,127
1,591,808
. —
1910
529
283,268
621
1,328,170
1,150
|1, 611, 438
—
1911
537
280,153
633
1,407,520
1,170
1,687,673
1
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Leading Steamship Companies : — Hamburg- America line ; Hamburg- South America line ; German Kosmosline; German- Australia line ; German East Africa line.
Raihvays, 44*8 miles,
British Consul-General. — Walter Risley Hearn.
References concerning Hamburg.
Tabellarische Uebersichten des hamburgischen Handels. Statistik des haiuburgischen Staates. Statistlsches Handbuch filr den hamburgischen Staat. Hamburgisches Staats- handbuch. Statistische Mitteilungen uber den hamburgischen Staat.
Baedeker's Northern Germany, lith ed. Leipzig, 1904.
Melle (W. von), Das hamburgische Staatsrecht. Hamburg, 1891.
Seelvj (G.), Hamburgisches Staatsrecht auf geschichtlicher Grundlage. Hamburg, 1902.
Zimviern (Helen), The Hansa Towns. In Story of the Nations Series. London, 1889
HESSE.
(Grossherzogthum Hessen.)
Reigning Grand-Duke. — Ernst Lndwig, born November 25, 1868 ; the son of Grand-duke Ludwig IV. and of Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland; succeeded at the death of his father, March 13, 1892, Married, first, Axjril 19, 1894, to Princess Victoria, born November 25, 1876, the daughter of Duke Alfred of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The marriage was dissolved December 21, 1901. Married, secondly, February 2, 1905, to Princess Elenore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lieh, born September 17, 1871 ; ofl"spring : Georg, born November 8, 1906. Ludwig, born November 20, 1908.
Sisters of the Gi-and-duke.— Victoria, born April 5, 1863 ; married to Pj-ince Ludwig of Batteuberg, April 30, 1884, II. Elizabeth, born Novemljer 1, 1864; married to the Grandduke Sergius Alexandrovitch of Russia, June 15, 1884 ; -widow February 17, 1905.
III. Irene, born July 11, 1866; married to Prince Heiniich of Prussia, May 24, 1888.
IV. Alix, l)orn June 6, 1872 ; married (as Alexandra Feodorovna) to Nicholas II. Emperor of Russia, November 26, 1894,
Children of Prince Alexander, uncle of the late Grand-duke Ludwig IV. (died Dec. 15, 1888), and Princess Julia von Batteuberg, born Nov. 12, 1825 (died Sept. 18, 1895), are^:— 1. Marie, born July 15, 1852; married April 29, 1871, to the Prince and Count Gnstaf von Erbach-Sclionberg ; widow Jan. 29, 1908. 2. Ludwi?, born May 24, 1854, commander in the British navy ; married to Princess Victoria of Hesse, April 30, 1884; offspring, Alice, born February 25, 1885; married to Prince Andrew of Greece, October 7, 1903 ; Louise, born July 13, 1889 ; George, born Nov. 6, 1892 : Ludwig, born June 25, 1900. 3. Franz Josef, born September 24, 1861 ; married to Princess Anna of Montenegro, May 6, 1897.
i Alexander, Prince of Bulgaria, 1879-86, afterwards Count Harteuau, died Nov.lC,1893, and Henry, married to Princess Beatrice of Groat Britain, died January 20, 1896.
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