The new century brought fine-sounding names and magnificent ships onto the Baltic Sea, such as the “Odin”, the “Hertha” and many others.  But the shots that rang out in Sarajevo in the summer of 1914 brought an abrupt end to pleasure trips on the Baltic Sea and the Braeunlich fleet was drafted into the imperial navy. After the war, the company gradually started up again with the “Hertha” and the “Odin”.  The increasing isolation of East Prussia necessitated a sea link and Braeunlich became involved in the East Prussian Naval Service.  After the “golden twenties” came the world economic crisis and, like many others, the pleasure cruise business had its ups and downs Things were to get worse than even in the summer of 1914.  In September 1939, virtually all of the company’s ships were commandeered by the navy.  Only the “Swinemünde” and the “Berlin” remained.  By 1945, the company had lost nearly all of its ships, its headquarters and, as a result of the new European order, its routes as well. After the war, there was another new ship, the “Melilla”, in 1952, and the company, now known as the “J.F. Braeunlich Shipping Company K.G.”, based itself in Hamburg from 1956.  In February 1995, the company’s trade registration at Hamburg district court would be cancelled.