Ariadne (ship, 1889)
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The Ariadne was a side paddle steamer built in Scotland , which operated in the German seaside resort service to Helgoland and Sylt from 1890 to 1894 and served as a hospital ship for the French Navy during the First World War .
Construction and technical data
The ship was on 15 (or 16) in May 1889 at the shipyard of J. McArthur & Co. in Paisley ( Scotland ) with the hull number 59 as Lady Gwendoline for the shipping company Edwards, Robertson & Co. in Cardiff from the stack . It was 64.25 m long and 7.05 m wide (without the wheel arches ) and measured at 339 GRT . The two-cylinder compound steam engine from Bow McLachlan & Co. in Paisley developed 210 hpnom and gave a speed of 14 knots . The ship had a chimney and two masts and space for 500 deck passengers.
career
The Lady Gwendoline was supposed to be the showpiece of Edwards & Robertson and impress with its high speed, but from the beginning she suffered from a number of technical problems and industrial accidents, caused in no small part by improper handling of her steam boiler. This led to a legal dispute with the shipyard, which the shipping company lost. The episode with the Lady Gwendoline , which was very costly for the shipping company , became a critical turning point in its history, and the ship was sold in 1891.
The buyer was the young Hamburg entrepreneur Albert Ballin , who founded his Ballins Dampfschiff-Rhederei in 1889 and was involved in seaside resort traffic to Heligoland , Norderney and the North Frisian Islands . The ship was named Ariadne and drove for several years from Hamburg via Cuxhaven to the North Sea islands.
On August 27, 1895, HAPAG , whose general manager Ballin had been since 1899, bought the ship and moved it to Cherbourg . The Ariadne served there as a tender from 1896 and was managed by the local HAPAG agents.
With the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, the ship was confiscated by France . In June 1915 it was requisitioned by the French Navy and then used as a hospital ship in Saloniki for the Corps expéditionnaire d'Orient during the Battle of Gallipoli .
Whereabouts
Information on the future fate of the ship is vague. In June 1917 the ship was sold to unknown owners. In 1923 it was deleted from Lloyd's Register . In 1923/24 it was recorded as Milas under the Persian flag. Then it came into Turkish possession and in 1924 went under the name Denzili and finally Hayrullah . In 1925 the ship was no longer registered and it is said to have been scrapped in Istanbul in 1926 .
Web links
- http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=13111
- http://www.schiffe-maxim.de/ariadne.htm .