German immigration to the Americas increases in the 1880s and 1890s, due primarily to economic conditions. Most of the immigrants were carried to the new world by steamships of the North German Lloyd Co., based in Bremen, or the Hamburg-America Line, based in Hamburg.
This page shows some of the main steamship liners of the Hamburg-Amerika Line around 1900: The Columbia, the Pennsylvania, the Normannia, the Augusta Victoria, the Prince Bismarck, and the Patria.