Adele (ship, 1952)
 The Livorno (formerly Adele ) in 1971
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The cargo ship Adele was a Swiss merchant ship that Gottlieb Duttweiler commissioned as a cargo ship for the Federation of Migros Cooperatives, together with a sister ship . It was named after Duttweiler's wife Adele Duttweiler-Bertschi .
prehistory
Gottlieb Duttweiler, founder of the Swiss Migros , was a politician of the State Ring of Independents (LdU) who advocated the development of the Swiss deep-sea fleet as early as the Second World War . For this purpose he intended to buy outdated Liberty ships , but it was not until 1951 that Reederei Zürich AG was founded, which in 1952 commissioned two cargo ships.
construction
The Stülcken shipyard in Hamburg built the largest ship ever built by the shipyard under construction number 808. Construction supervision and technical support for the ship had been transferred to the C. Clausen shipping company in Copenhagen, Denmark. The launch took place on July 15, 1952, and the cargo ship was christened Adele by Adele Duttweiler, the wife of Gottlieb Duttweiler, the founder and president of the shipping company . The delivery to the owners took place on September 11, 1952, and the ship was registered under the charter name Sun-Adele under the Swiss flag (register number 047, callsign HBFL).
Technical and special features
The Adele had a raised forecastle and a deckhouse amidships with an engine room below. Two of the four holds were arranged in front of the bridge structure, two were behind it. The holds a grain capacity of 9174 m 3 and a ball capacity of 8739 m 3 had intermediate deck . The two forward cargo holds were accessible via three hatches, and one hatch was available aft for each cargo hold. The cargo gear consisted of normal light cargo booms on all hatches and a 25-ton heavy lift boom on cargo hold 2. The cargo booms between the two front hatches were attached to double posts that also served as cargo hold ventilators, the second front and the aft cargo gear was on conventional central cargo masts appropriate. There were cargo tanks to the side of the shaft tunnel .
The ship was powered by an eight - cylinder two-stroke diesel engine of the type Sulzer 8SD72-CRDA, which was built under license by the Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico in Trieste . The Adele and her sister ship Amelia had a powerful propulsion system for cargo ships at that time: they normally ran at 16.25 knots and could reach a top speed of 17.75 knots. The hull of the ship was built in a longitudinal frame system and reinforced with ice .
Accommodation for crew and passengers
The modern accommodations of the crew were remarkable. The majority of the 38-person crew had single cabins, with the exception of some of the fair stewards, who had to share a double cabin under the main deck . The cabins for the deck crew and engine people were distributed over two decks on the aft ship . Like those of the machinists, they were equipped with wash basins. Toilets and showers were for common use. On the main deck amidships were the accommodations of the machinists and the chief engineer, the chief steward and the cooks, as well as the galley and the officers' mess. There was a bar for the crew in the small deckhouse. Two fairs for the sailors and the engine people and a pantry housed in the mast house.
The boat deck was the living area of the master, the deck officers and the radio operator and was not accessible to ordinary seafarers. The upper deck was reserved for passengers who were accommodated in ten single and one double cabins with their own bathroom. The smoking room, bar and dining room were also located here, where the captain, the chief engineer and the first officer ate meals together with the passengers. Lounges and cabins were tastefully furnished and decorated with lots of wood.
Passenger and crew quarters had no air conditioning; only a ventilation and heating system was installed and there were small fans in the cabins.
crew
The captain, officers and crew initially came from Denmark and only three Swiss seafarers were on board during the maiden voyage. The crew was employed according to Danish labor law and their wages were paid in Danish kroner . From 1955, the shipping company Zürich AG took full control of the operation of the ship: at the end of 1956, around 75% of the crew were Swiss seafarers. Later the crew consisted mostly of Swiss people, with the exception of captains and deck officers, who mostly came from Germany or the Netherlands and received their wages according to Swiss labor law.
Ship history
After delivery, the cargo ship was on a time charter with Saguenay Terminals Inc., Montreal, Canada, and the maiden voyage led from Hamburg via Rotterdam and London to Venezuela. This charter was agreed for a term of six years, which is why the ship was renamed the Sun-Adele , as all ships chartered by Saguenay had the prefix "Sun" in their name. In 1953 the name was changed to Sunadele . The Sun-Adele and her sister ship Sun-Amelia were operated in the Atlantic between Northern Europe / Great Britain, the Caribbean Sea , Central America and Canada / USA. Often the two ships were only used between the Caribbean Sea and North America. The ports called include British Guyana, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Colombia, Barbados, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, St. Vincent, Trinidad and Puerto Rico. In summer, the ships visited the ports on the St. Lawrence Gulf, in winter, when it was icy, the ships called at the ice-free ports of Halifax and Saint John. In mainland Europe, calls were usually made in Hamburg, Rotterdam and Antwerp as well as London, Avonmouth, Cardiff, Liverpool and Glasgow in the UK.
From Europe and Canada general cargo was transported to the Caribbean and Central America and from Canada to Europe mainly paper and aluminum products as well as bauxite from the mines in Guyana to the aluminum works in Port Alfred, Canada. Sugar from Cuba or Guyana to Canada or the USA was less common. After contract extensions, the charter ended on February 4, 1966 and the ship was renamed Adele again.
On November 26, 1966, the ship was sold to the Transpacific Carriers Corporation in Piraeus for $ 630,000. Under the new name Livorno and registered under the Greek flag (call sign SZQD), the freighter was transferred to Hellenic Lines in Piraeus in 1977. In 1980, the Livorno was sold to Mao Chen Iron & Steel Company in Kaohsiung , China, for scrapping . On June 25, 1980 she passed the Panama Canal on her last voyage to Kaohsiung, where the ship arrived on August 8, 1980 for demolition.
Trivia
During the Cuban Missile Crisis , the Adele's route also led to Cuba and a crew member is said to have been arrested for smuggling Cuban rum after calling at a Canadian port .
literature
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping: Register Book 1953-54 , Volume II, M – Z, 1953, London
- Margrit and Ernst Baumann: Seeing the World: Photo Reports 1945-2000 . Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2010. ISBN 978-3858813022 .
