Amasis (ship, 1914)
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The Amasis was a German combined ship of the Deutsche Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft Kosmos and was completed in May 1914 as the second ship with this name and as a type of a series of combined ships by the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft . The ship served as the supplier of the cruiser SMS Leipzig and then the cruiser squadron of Count Spee . Before this moved to the Atlantic, the Amasis was released and sought refuge in Punta Arenas.
After the end of the First World War , the ship was transferred to Germany, repaired and delivered to Great Britain. In August 1921, the Amasis was bought by the Aznar shipping company in Bilbao and put back into service under the name Altube Mendi . In November 1924 the DDG Kosmos bought the ship back and named it Uarda , since the old name had been used by a new building since 1923. As a result of the merger of the companies, Uarda came into the possession of Hapag two years later . On October 25, 1934, the Uarda ex Amasis was sold to Genoa for demolition.
History of the ship
Since the battle with Kirsten's Hamburg-Pacific Line, the DDG Kosmos had continuously increased the passenger capacities of its combi-ships on the line to the west coast of America until 1909. The sister ships Roda and Heluan were most recently delivered by the Reiherstieg shipyard . These steamers were 7250 GRT in size, had a loading capacity of 9200 tdw and space for 110 passengers in three classes. In addition, the shipping company had already procured pure freighters.
The slump in the passenger business and the foreseeable opening of the Panama Canal prompted DDG-Kosmos to abandon the procurement of ships with larger passenger facilities. After procuring the aforementioned combi ships, sold two of the combi ships ( Edfu , Esne ) to the DOAL after only five years of service and ordered new ships of 7,000 GRT as cargo ships with a significantly limited passenger capacity of 6 first-class cabin seats, and totally renounced the second class and still offered 35 third class seats in the rear.
In 1896 the British shipyard Connel had already delivered an Amasis of 4612 GRT named after the Egyptian Pharaoh , which was sold by DDG Kosmos in 1913 to Continentale Rhederei AG and was used there as Eichsfeld .
The second Amasis was launched on March 17, 1914 at the Flensburger Schiffbaugesellschaft as a type ship of a new class, which again offered space for fourteen passengers in the first class, continued to dispense with a second class and also retained a modest facility for third class passengers in the aft section . On May 17, 1914, the Amasis was delivered, followed by August 16, 1914, the sister ships Ammon from the same shipyard, the Totmes from AG Neptun and the Denderah from Tecklenborg . The ships were powered by a triple expansion steam engine of the respective shipyard, which was supplied by four boilers, on which Amasis made 3600 hp and enabled a service speed of 11 knots. The ships had a length of 149 m and a carrying capacity of over 12,000 dwt.
The Amasis was the only ship of the class that reached South America before the outbreak of war in 1914. The Totmes' maiden voyage ended in Antwerp and the other two did not even get into a civilian mission under the German flag. Three similar ones were built during the war, but were not used and were delivered to the victorious powers in 1919.
Supply ship of the Imperial Navy
The Amasis was as catering for the small also located on the West Coast cruiser after the outbreak of war SMS Leipzig used. The cruiser stationed on the Mexican Pacific coast wanted to return to Count Spee's cruiser squadron when war broke out . After insufficient supplies on August 17, 1914 in San Francisco , the cruiser was dependent on booty or the support of German auxiliary ships. The Amasis met the cruiser on September 19, 1914 near Chatham Island . On October 3, the two ships marched from the Galapagos Islands on to Easter Island , where the meeting with the squadron took place on the 14th. On the way, the Kosmos steamers Karnak (1912, 7044 BRT) and Anubis (ex Luciana , 1898, 4763 BRT), which had supplies and coal for the squadron on board, joined the Leipzig . The Amasis marched with the entourage of the squadron over the island of Más a Tierra (supplying the squadron there before and after the sea battle at Coronel ) to St. Quentin Bay in the north-east of the Gulf of Penas in southern Chile, where from 21. to. November 26th the last large supply of the squadron took place and was then discharged almost empty to Punta Arenas. Should serve as a radio operator. From December 13 to 20, the Amasis met with the cruiser SMS Dresden , which had escaped from the Falklands Battle, in the Hewett Bay near Punta Arenas, which received almost all of the remaining coal. Then returned to Punta Arenas.
Under other flags
The Amasis , which was lying in Punta Arenas , Chile , until the end of the First World War was transferred to Germany for delivery to the Allies. In 1921 the repaired ship was delivered to Great Britain, where it was sold to Spain. The Bilbao-based shipping company Cia. Naviera Soto Y Aznar used the ship as Altube Mendi from 1921 . This Spanish shipping company had leased its entire fleet to the British Admiralty during World War I and lost 16 ships. In addition to the Amasis , the Spanish shipping company also acquired the Anhalt des NDL , which was used as the Aya Mendi until the NDL bought it back.
Again under the German flag
In 1924 DDG Kosmos bought back the former Amasis from Spain. Since the company had a third Amasis in service since 1923 , the old ship was renamed Uarda (3). As a cargo ship, it was used again in its home region. When the great shipping crisis began , the Uarda was launched as early as 1930. On October 25, 1934, the Uarda ex Amasis was sold to Genoa for demolition.
| Fate of the sister ships | |||||
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| Surname | Shipyard | GRT | Launch | in service | further fate |
| Ammon | FSG construction no. 339 |
7233 | May 16, 1914 | 07/16/1914 | Delivered to Great Britain June 1920, January 1921 Hain SS: Trewinnard , 1924 Federal Steam: Pakipaki , October 1933 demolished in Italy |
| Totmes | AG Neptun building no. 338 |
7390 | 04/26/1914 | oo.07.1914 | 1914 Antwerp, delivered in May 1919, February 1921 David SS: St.Alban's Abbey , March 1922 Dutch VNS : Arendskerk , March 1935 Italian Ernesto , September 1943 Mediterranean shipping company , 1945 again Italy, after being stranded in May in November 1954 for demolition in Japan |
| Denderah | Tecklenborg building no. 262 |
7310 | 06/23/1914 | 08/16/1914 | 1915 sold to Dutch Holland-Amerika-Lijn (HAL): Moerdijk , delivered to Great Britain in 1919 as Denderah , October 1920 to Dutch HAL: Moerdijk , launched in 1931, demolished in Japan in August 1933 |
| similar war structures | |||||
| Sesostris | FSG construction no. |
7242 | 1914 | 1915 | Delivered to Great Britain in 1919, David SS in 1921, Dutch VNS in 1921: Oldekerk , Greece Phaeax in 1934 , Panama in 1939, accrued off Japan in 1940 |
| Itauri | FSG construction no. |
7217 | 1915 | 1916 | Delivered to Great Britain in 1919, Lloyd Royal Belge in 1920 : Carlier , sunk by German planes in 1943 |
| Isis | Tecklenborg building no. |
8864 | .1916 | .12.1916 | Delivered to Great Britain in 1919, 1921 David SS: Malvolio , 1921 Dutch VNS: Aagtkerk , 1932 demolition Japan |
literature
- Carl Herbert: War voyages of German merchant ships . Broschek & Co, Hamburg 1934.
- Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping Volume III Leap growth 1900 to 1914 Chapter 8: Joint growth , writings of the German Maritime Museum, Volume 20
- Reinhardt Schmelzkopf: German merchant shipping 1919–1939 . Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg, ISBN 3-7979-1847-X .
Web links
- DDG Kosmos fleet list (English) accessed August 26, 2013
- Altube Mendi (Spanish). Retrieved August 26, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kludas: The History of the German Passenger Shipping Volume III, P. 106f.
- ↑ a b Herbert: Kriegsfahrten Deutscher Handelsschiffe , p. 71
- ↑ NAVIERA AZNAR (span) accessed August 26, 2013
- ↑ sinking of the Carlier