Monument to the 3 million European immigrants that sailed to the USA between 1873-1935 from Antwerp, Belgium
The Red Star Line was an ocean passenger line founded in 1871 as a joint venture between the International Navigation Company of Philadelphia, which also ran the American Line, and the Société Anonyme de Navigation Belgo-Américaine of Antwerp, Belgium. The company's main ports of call were Antwerp in Belgium, Liverpool and Southampton in the United Kingdom and New York City and Philadelphia in the United States. The Red Star Line or Société Anonyme de Navigation Belge-Américaine (SANBA) was a Belgian ocean passenger line with regular crossings between Antwerp and New York and sometimes between Antwerp and Philadelphia. The company belonged to the International Navigation Company (later International Mercantile Marine Company), and was founded in 1872. One year later in 1873 the first ship sailed across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1935 the company went bankrupt because of the stock market crash of 1929. In 2013 a museum dedicated to the Red Star Line will open its doors in Antwerp in the actual building from which three million Europeans left for the promised land, the United States of America. The monument on the photo represents a European immigrant with a top hat standing at the railing of a steamship saying farewell to Antwerp and to Europe.
Size: 5616px × 3744px
Location: Monument to the European Immigrants, Napoleonkaai, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium, Western Europe
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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