The Baltic American Line, was a shipping company, established by the Danish East Asiatic Company in 1920.
Origins
The East Asiatic Company's subsidiary Russian American Line began sailing to North America in 1900, continuing until 1917. [1]
With the Russian revolution, Poland and the Baltic states had seceded from Russia and the city of Liepāja (Libau) was in newly independent Latvia. The ships were transferred to the newly created Baltic American Line. The East Asiatic Company's Liepāja-registered ships all had Russian names, so the company renamed them with the names of the newly independent states: Latvia (ex-Russija, built 1908), Polonia (ex-Kursk, built 1910), Estonia (ex-Czar, built 1912) and Lithuania (ex-Czaritza, built 1915).[2]