Robert Miles Sloman

Robert Miles Sloman ( born October 23, 1783 in Great Yarmouth, † January 2, 1867 in Hamburg) was an Anglo- German shipowners.

Robert Sloman's father William Sloman had moved to Hamburg in 1791, where he had founded in 1793 a small shipping company. , Under the name Rob M. Sloman & Co. oHG still exists today and is the oldest existing shipping company is Germany.

After Robert Sloman had taken over the shipping company from his father, he built the inventory of ships and the number of operated shipping lines from considerably. Initially, the shipping company dealt exclusively with the traditional trips to and from England, in the following years came worldwide connections added, thereby moved New York as the destination port in the foreground. On February 17, 1836, the shipping company Sloman opened with the Bark Franklin scheduled service to New York, becoming the first regular transatlantic transport connection has been established.

On 8 May 1841, founded by Sloman and eight other shipowners Hanseatic Steamship Company took over two built in England paddle steamer, the Hamburg and Manchester, with which the first steamship service between Hamburg and Kingston upon Hull was taken.

Sloman 1845 tried the first shipowner with a circumnavigation for passengers to offer tourist cruises, but did not find enough buyers.

For the sum of 400,000 marks banco Sloman was at an English shipyard to build a designed for Atlantic passages propeller-driven steamer which was filed on May 29, 1850 for scheduled services to New York in service and the first hamburgische overseas steamship was. By baptized by Sloman's daughter Helena Sloman ship the first regular transatlantic steamship connection was ever undertaken.

In October 1851 Sloman took for his shipping company, the first German dry dock on Steinwerder in operation.

On September 26, 1855 acquired Robert Sloman, away from his usual business, for 170,000 Konventionstaler with the City Theater, the recently bankrupt previous largest theater in Hamburg, which remained until 1873 owned by the Sloman family. In 1859, the cruise line had risen under Robert Sloman line with 21 ships to the largest shipping company in Hamburg. Sloman 1865 belonged to the founders of the German Society for Sea Rescue.

He was with Johan Cesar VI. Godeffroy, Johann Christian Jauch junior (1802-1880), Ernst Merck and Johann Heinrich Schröder of the initiators of the International Agricultural Exhibition in 1863 at the Hamburg Holy Spirit box and drew the guarantee fund.

1867 died Robert Miles Sloman, two weeks after he celebrated with his wife Gundalena, daughter of the Frisian Greenland rider Hinrich Braren, diamond wedding. He left behind five children, including the writer Eliza will. Six other children had died in infancy. Its also Robert Miles baptized son continued the shipping company. A nephew was Henry Brarens Sloman, who independently came to prominence as a merchant and banker.

From 1859 to 1861 Sloman was a member of the Hamburg Parliament.

Writings

• The development of the Hamburg shipping company: Casual memories (nd)
• Remarks on the applicability of the scratch machine, caused by the font of the Lord Hydraulic Director Hiibbe ( Hamb. 1844)
• Some remarks about my trip to England in 1829 for my children and grandchildren ( Hamb. 1894)
• Some records from the young life of my father's business in Antwerp and Tonning: 1801-1807 ( Hamb. 1899)