One of many war-built ships operated by Isbrandtsen and American Export after World War II, the steam-powered C2-S-B1 type Flying Cloud was completed in 1944 by California’s Moore Dry Dock and scrapped under combined American Export-Isbrandtsen colours at Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1972.
TREVOR JONES
Next year will mark the 80th anniversary of the formation of the Isbrandtsen Steamship Company in the United States, later to be combined with the earlier established American Export Lines to create American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines in 1964. Hans Isbrandtsen, who first came to the United States in 1914, joined forces with his cousin, A.P. Møller, who later established Mærsk Line, to form the Isbrandtsen-Moller Company at New York in 1919.