Bernuth-Lembcke Company

Bernuth-Lembcke Company
IndustryTransportation and shipping
Founded1918 (1918) in New York City
Key people
  • Carlos Eduardo Lembcke
  • Oscar Max von Bernuth
  • George Albert Lembcke
  • D. K. Ludwig
SS Fort Lee operated by Bernuth-Lembcke Company that was sunk on November 2, 1944

Bernuth-Lembcke Company was a tanker ship transportation company founded in 1918 in New York City by Oscar Max von Bernuth (O. M. Bernuth) and Carlos Eduardo Lembcke. Earlier Oscar Max von Bernuth founded his own company, Bernuth Corporation, on December 20, 1907, in at Suffolk, New York. Carlos Eduardo Lembcke. Earlier founded his own company, C. Lembeke & Company, in 1889. Bernuth-Lembcke Company were active in supporting the World War II effort, shipping fuel oil.[1]

  1. ^ The Liberty Ships of World War II, by Greg H. Williams