Athabaska shore
The former Athabaska-Ufer is located in the Port of Hamburg between the Athabaska-Höft and the beginning of the Athabaska-Kai. Until 1992 there was a landing stage of the HADAG with the same name as well as the water police station 8, which had to give way to container handling in 1992 with the expansion of the Athabaska quay.
The English screw steamer Athabasca of the Liverpool shipowner William Tapscott ran aground on the Athabaska shore in October 1891 in what was then the Böhnhasensand swamp . The ship named after the Canadian river Athabasca River was loaded with rice and went up the Elbe. After it got stuck , the Sloman steamer Procida collided with the Athabasca , whose boiler and engine room then overflowed. The Athabasca sank against the park sand. The wreck was not recovered. It was only taken out of the fairway and stranded. A beacon was later installed on the forecastle . When the port facilities were expanded, it disappeared under the Elbe sand. Only the name Athabaska-Höft still reminds of the ship.
Today the Athabaska quay is a modern HHLA container handling facility with a quay length of around 1,000 meters and a water depth of 12.5 meters, which extends from the Parkhafen in the west to Maakenwerder Hafen in the east and is located opposite the Övelgönne district .
Web links
- Plunge from the "Athabaska" - When there was still a wilderness of reeds opposite Övelgönne In: Hamburger Abendblatt of March 28, 1953
- Police are moving In: Hamburger Abendblatt from December 17, 1994
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 22 " N , 9 ° 54 ′ 48" E