This resulted in NDL's merger with the Hamburg-America Line in 1970.

Home Lines were connected to Cosulich Lines, Swedish American Line and Hamburg-America Line.

While on this route she was managed by Hamburg-America Line.

The Italia in turn came to be managed by Hamburg-America Line while on the service from Germany.

With Albert Ballin as its director, the Hamburg-America Line became the world's largest transatlantic shipping company around the start of the 20th century.

She was a 21,860-gross ton ship built for the Hamburg-America Line and launched in 1913 from Stettin, Germany, as the SS Tirpitz.

The first vessel built exclusively for this purpose was the Prinzessin Victoria Luise of Germany, designed by Albert Ballin, general manager of Hamburg-America Line.

The president entrusted the formation of a new cabinet to Dr. Wilhelm Cuno, manager of the Hamburg-America Line, who accomplished the task with some difficulty.

For a time at least, the company dominated its rival, the Hamburg-America Line.

On 1 September 1907, she was bought by the Hamburg-America Line and resumed her Hamburg to New York trips.