1901-1920 

World War I was a time  

World War I was a time of hardship for crews and equipment. Furthermore, service was interrupted by a great number of seizures by the German authorities, and by demands from the British government.

The Company was also required to make duty voyages, in part by the Danish government, to ensure vital supplies of coal and fodder to Denmark, and in part by the British authorities, in order to have bunker coal delivered in return.

All the ships that were in the U.S.A. were chartered by American shipping companies from 1917 until some time after the end of the war, for service between the U.S.A. and the West Indies or South America.

In 1920 s.s. A.P. BERNSTORFF accompanied the royal yacht with King Christian X and Queen Alexandrine to the reunification ceremony in Southern Jutland.