Adler (ship, 1904)
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The Adler was a seaside resort ship owned by HAPAG , which operated it from 1912 to 1935. She was completed in 1905 as the first civil German steam turbine ship . Before it was used as a seaside resort ship, the turbine was replaced by a conventional triple expansion machine.
In 1935 the ship was sold to Estonia and used as the Aegna ferry between Tallinn and Helsinki . In Soviet possession, the ship was lost before 1950.
Construction and technical data
The ship was launched on October 8, 1904 at the Howaldtswerken in Kiel with the hull number 392 first without name from the stack . It was 59.44 m long between the perpendiculars and 7.64 m wide, had a 3.45 m draft and was measured at 594 GRT . The ship had two masts and a chimney and had the first German ship a machine plant with a Zoelly - steam turbine with 1,200 hp , giving it a speed of 15 knots awarded. It was the first civil turbine ship built in Germany. In April 1905, the Imperial Navy received its first two turbine ships , the cruiser SMS Lübeck from the Stettiner Vulcan and the Schichau torpedo boat SMS S 125 , which were powered by Parsons turbines .
career
It was built on behalf of a consortium from Kiel that wanted to use the ship on the Baltic Sea for mail and passenger traffic with cabins. The consortium did not take over the ship and broke up. Then the used shipyard the ship after its completion in January 1905 for a time as an experimental vessel for steam turbine operation and then put it on while a new buyer was sought.
Sea bathing ship Adler
A buyer was not found until 1912 in HAPAG , which bought the ship on March 26, 1912 and had it converted into a seaside resort ship with space for 200 deck passengers. With the Kaiser, Hapag had had a large, turbine-powered seaside resort ship since autumn 1905. On the new acquisition, the turbine was replaced by a triple expansion engine of 93 nhp , which only allowed a speed of 11 knots. After the conversion, it was measured at 563 GRT and 202 NRT. On July 7th, the ship, now known as the Adler , was delivered and from July 10th it made its test drives. Then it was used in the seaside resort service from Hamburg to Helgoland and other seaside resorts on the North Sea. The ship proved to be extremely seaworthy and was also used in mail and freight traffic outside the season until 1935.
During the First World War , the Adler was taken over by the Imperial Navy and, after appropriate conversion, was used as a hospital ship or transport ship for the wounded from November 12, 1914 until the end of the war . It was equipped with 177 sick beds and, in addition to the ship's crew, received medical personnel for 21 people.
On November 13, 1918, the Adler was returned to HAPAG and then used again on its old route. In 1926 it received new boilers and in 1927 the hull was painted white instead of the black one. The ship remained in service until the end of the 1935 season, which it last operated with the new Queen Luise , the Cobra , Kaiser and occasionally the Kehrwieder .
Service under different flags
On 5 October 1935 the ship Louis Koster was in Altona sold it in Eagle renamed, but still on December 6 of that year to the shipping company resold G. Sergo & Co. in Tallinn (Estonia). This had cabins for 30 passengers in the first and 40 in the second class built, which, including the 100 deck spaces, could transport a total of 170 people. Under the new name of Aegna , after an island off Tallinn, the ship now sailed the Tallinn-Helsinki route.
During the Soviet occupation of Estonia in June 1940, the ship was taken by the occupiers.
The end of the aegna
Just a little over a year later, as a result of the German attack on the Soviet Union , the ship fell into German hands in Tallinn in August 1941. It was then used by the Kriegsmarine as a pilot tender .
On November 28, 1944, the ship was captured by the advancing Soviet troops in Memel . It was renamed Volkhov ( Russian Волхов ) , probably in 1946 . How long it then drove under the Soviet flag is uncertain. It was listed as Aegna in the Lloyds Register until 1951 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Rothe: Deutsche Seebäderschiffe. P. 87.
- ↑ apparently taken from aukepalmhof at shipstamps , accessed on August 16, 2013.
- ^ Kuke: Helgoland course. P. 84f .: Aegna .. after the occupation of Estonia by the Soviets in 1944, the track is lost ... until 1950 .. in Lloyd's Register ... for the old owners
- ^ Rothe: German seaside ships. P. 87: Transferred to Leningrad in August 1941 .. Submarine base .. during the war .. Volkov .. 1947 .. as a target ship ... sunk off Aegna
literature
- Herbert Kuke: Helgoland course. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg, 1974, ISBN 3-7979-1839-9 , pp. 73, 84f.
- Claus Rothe: German seaside ships. 1830 to 1939. (Library of Ship Types). transpress Verlag für Verkehrwesen, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-344-00393-3 , p. 87.
Web links
- Adler (1904–1952), with a photo of the seaside resort ship
- As Aegna on Estonian postage stamp
- Ships thathave sunk in Estonian waters, and Their stories Aegna November 1944 before Aegna fallen accessed diving destination today August 16, 2013
- Polish page on Aegna , which tries to clarify the different endings of the résumé (Polish). Retrieved August 16, 2013