Adler (ship, 1938)
 The Wickenburgh (formerly the Adler )
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The Adler was a cargo ship that was built in 1938 by the Lübecker Maschinenbau Gesellschaft shipyard in Lübeck for the Argo Reederei Richard Adler & Co. in Bremen and sailed under different flags and names after 1945.
Sister ship was the Habicht (1577 BRT) built in 1938 by Nordseewerke Emden , which was requisitioned by the Navy in 1939 and used as a pilot mother ship and as a guard ship. Slightly smaller half-sisters were the Heron (1304 GRT) and Schwan (1311 GRT) built by Howaldtswerke AG in Kiel in 1938 .
history
When Adler was ordered by the Argo Reederei and launched, the ship was completed in May 1938 by the Lübecker Maschinenbau Gesellschaft, Lübeck, and confiscated by the Navy in 1939 . The Navy classified the ship as an "auxiliary ship" in 1942, but initially did not take it into service. It was not until August 14, 1944 that the ship was put into service and used as a transport for the wounded, with a transport capacity of up to 450 patients. Legally speaking, “wounded transporters” were not hospital ships; That is, they were not notified internationally or marked with the red cross, and they were armed with anti-aircraft weapons.
At the end of the war in May 1945, the Adler was confiscated by the British Ministry of War Transport in Vordingborg / Denmark , handed over to Methil on August 7, 1945 and launched as Empire Coningsby in Kingston upon Hull . In 1946 the ship was handed over to the Dutch government and, after being renamed Margeta, operated by the shipping company Wm. H. Müller & Co. , Rotterdam , which bought the ship the following year and continues to operate it under the name Wickenburgh .
In 1953 the Wickenburgh was converted into a motor ship. Ten years later it was bought by the Greek FC Georgopoulos, who named the ship Nissos Thassos . Within Greece, the ship was then resold to the Scandinavia-Baltic-Mediterranean Shipping Co. by Iacovos Emmanuel Marcozanis in 1970 and was given its last name Savilco . In 1978 the Savilco was again transferred to the Pythagoras Cia without a change of owner. Nav. In Panama transferred and soon after in Perama in Piraeus launched .
After a layover in Perama, Marcozanis, who at the time also ran the “Pythagoras Maritime and Technical Schools”, tried to incorporate it into his academy as a training ship . Difficulties with the authorities prevented a training company at sea, which finally led to the scrapping of the well-preserved ship on June 19, 1984.
Web links
- Entry Lloyd's Register (English) (PDF; 128 kB)
- Entry Kustvaartforum
- More and more often the order "Cast off for the last journey" applies - Hamburger Abendblatt ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Footnotes
- ↑ a b The Savilco on Miramar (in English) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Batavier Line. theshipslist.com, accessed April 1, 2018 (see Wickenburgh (2)).
- ↑ TheShipsList about the ships of the Argo shipping company (in English)
- ↑ Erich Gröner : The German Warships 1815-1945 , Volume 2, Munich 1968, p. 725; Erich Gröner / Dieter Jung: The ships of the German navy and air force 1939–1945 and their whereabouts , Bonn 2001, p. 68.
- ^ Witthöft, Hans Jürgen: The German merchant fleet 1939 - 1945 . Volume 2 merchant ships * blockade breakers * auxiliary warships. Muster-Schmidt Verlagsgesellschaft, Göttingen 1971.
- ↑ Michael J. Krieger: Tramp Ships. Legends from the world of the old freighters . Pietsch Verlag, Stuttgart, 1988, ISBN 3-613-50082-5
