Antonio Delfino (ship)

Antonio Delfino

Sierra Nevada in the outer harbor of the Kaiserschleuse . Lloydhalle. In front of the Columbuskaje, the Europa with elongated chimneys.

Ship data Ship type Combined ship home port Hamburg Shipping company Hamburg South Shipyard Vulcan shipyard, Hamburg Whereabouts Canceled in 1956 at Arnott Young in Almuir

Ship dimensions and crew length 152.30 m ( Lüa ) width 19.50 m measurement 13589 GRT

Machine system Top speed 15 kn (28 km / h) propeller 2 × fixed propellers

Others Classifications Germanic Lloyd

The combined ship Antonio Delfino of the La Plata service of the Hamburg Süd shipping company later served under the name Sierra Nevada and as the British troop transport HMTS Empire Halladale .

history

The Antonio Delfino was launched on November 10, 1921 at the Vulcan shipyard in Hamburg and was delivered to the client in March 1922. The ship was named after the Argentine shipowner and broker Antonio M. Delfino (1853–1922), who from 1894 acted, among other things, as an agent for Hamburg Süd in Argentina.

Her maiden voyage took the 13,589 gross register tons ship, with a capacity of 184 passengers in first and 334 passengers in third class, from Hamburg to Brazil. on March 16, 1922 to South America. Together with her sister ship Cap Norte , she was in service for Hamburg Süd until 1932.

From 1932 to 1934 she was chartered to the North German Lloyd , which she used as Sierra Nevada . Then she was reintegrated as Antonio Delfino in the South American service of Hamburg Süd. At the beginning of the Second World War she was in Bahia , Brazil , from where she returned to Kiel in September 1939 despite the Allied blockade . From 1940 to 1943 she was used as a naval houseboat in Kiel and Gotenhafen , where she was used from 1944 as a submarine command ship by the commanding admiral of the submarines. In the course of the Hannibal company , the ship, which was now classified as a transport ship for the wounded, carried around 20,500 people from eastern Germany to the west on five trips in 1945.

When the war ended in May 1945, the ship was in Copenhagen . There the British Ministry of War Transport (MOWT) took over the ship as spoils of war. It was converted into a troop transport by John Brown & Company , renamed Empire Halladale and put back into service on August 31, 1946. After a further ten years of service, the Empire Halladale was finally sold to the Arnott Young demolition yard in Dalmuir, Scotland, in 1956, where it was scrapped.

Footnotes

1. ^ Antonio M. Delfino, in Historia y Arqueologia Marítima
2. ^ Homepage of the Delfino company ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Brief history of the ship at schiffe-maxim