Ostend (ship, 1903)
 The sister ship Wartenfels in Antwerp
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The Ostend was one of six former cargo ships of the German Steamship Company "Hansa" (DDG "Hansa"), which came into the service of the Belgian shipping company Armement Deppe in 1921 . It was delivered in 1903 by Wigham & Richardson in Newcastle as Ehrenfels to the DDG "Hansa".
The third Ehrenfels , with 4576 GRT and 6650 tdw, was one of the smaller ships for the East India service of the shipping company, which in addition to the 8000 tdw cargo ships, like its predecessor, the second Ehrenfels , which was lost in 1902 , were still procured. The new ship was one of a series of five ships, with the sister ships being delivered by German shipyards in 1903/1904. In 1914 she was one of the few ships of the DDG "Hansa" in her home country and served in the transport of coal and ore in the North and Baltic Seas.
Delivered in April 1919, the ship came to Belgium in 1920 and was purchased by the Armement Deppe shipping company and used as Ostend from November 1921 . During the Second World War she was hit by a mine on January 21, 1943 while traveling with war material and ammunition from New York to Great Britain in British coastal waters. It was damaged and burned on the beach in Loch Na Lathaich on the Isle of Mull , but was completely destroyed by subsequent munitions explosions.
History of the ship
Since the end of 1896 with the Neidenfels , the DDG "Hansa" procured ships of over 5000 GRT and 8000 tdw for their East India service. For many of the ports called, smaller ships were needed, so that from 1902 to 1904 the shipping company also procured twelve smaller ships in three series for service to the East Indies.
The third Ehrenfels was one of the five ships in the first series ( Liebenfels class). Like its two namesake predecessors, it was the only one that originated from Wigham & Richardson. Her sister ships were supplied by German shipyards. With 29 newbuildings between 1882 and 1911 until the First World War, the British shipyard was the main supplier to the German cargo shipping company. The shipyard in Newcastle delivered three of the following seven rich and Crostafels class ships , with the Crostafels, completed in 1904, being the first ship for DDG "Hansa" after the merger with Swan Hunter .
The Ehrenfels was launched on July 24, 1904. She was 114.25 m long, 15.4 m wide and had a draft of up to 7.32 m. The 4-cylinder quadruple expansion machine manufactured by the shipyard had an output of 2000 PSi, acted on one screw and gave the ship a speed of 13 knots (kn). The Ehrenfels was measured with 4576 GRT and had a carrying capacity of 6650 dwt. On September 16, 1904, the Ehrenfels was delivered as the third ship in the series after two newbuildings of the Bremer Vulkan, which was the shipping company’s first supplier.
For the first time, the DDG Hansa used a ship name for the third time. The second bearer of the name from 1898 (5450 BRT / 8000 tdw) was lost in peace on May 9, 1902 in a typhoon in the shipping company's worst marine casualty, with 41 crew members losing their lives. The first name bearer from 1892 (2256 BRT / 3450 tdw) was the third ship of the shipping company founded in 1892 and was sold in 1898.
Mission history of the third Ehrenfels
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The Ehrenfels was used on the lines of the DDG "Hansa" in the Middle East, East India and Australia. In 1914 she was one of the few ships of the DDG "Hansa" in her home country and served in the transport of coal and ore in the North and Baltic Seas.
In April 1919 she was extradited to Great Britain.
Service under the Belgian flag
In 1920 the ship came to Belgium and was bought by Armement Deppe in Antwerp along with five other ex-DDG “Hansa” ships and used as Ostend from November 1921 . In the service of the Belgian shipping company, she was then used primarily in the Mediterranean and as far as the Black Sea.
During the Second World War, the Ostend was part of a British convoy to North America for the first time in September 1940. The ship made at least six round trips to North America in the following period.
On a trip with war material and ammunition from New York to Great Britain in the SC 115 convoy , she was hit by a mine in British coastal waters on January 17, 1943. It was damaged and beached on fire in Loch Scridain, Isle of Mull , but was subsequently beached by ammunition explosions at position 56 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ N , 6 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ W totally destroyed. Two men died; the other 46 on board the ship were rescued. With it, the last of the six former DDG “Hansa” ships of Armement Deppe taken over in 1921 was lost in the war.
The cargo ships of the Liebenfels class
| Surname | Shipyard | GRT tdw |
Launched in service |
further fate |
| Liebenfels |
Bremer Vulkan BauNr. 459 |
4608 6620 |
04/11/1903 06/26/1903 |
Launched in Charleston in 1914 , sunk by the crew when the USA entered the war in 1917, after salvage and repair in July 1917 put into service by the US Navy as AK-1 Houston , sold in 1922: North King , registered in Panama in 1940, broken up in 1957; |
| Werdenfels | Bremer Vulkan BauNr. 460 |
4612 6620 |
07/15/1903 09/02/1903 |
Confiscated in Port Said in 1914 : Hunstanton , April 4, 1917, sunk under the British flag west of the Isles of Scilly by the German submarine UC 30 ; |
| Ehrenfels | Wigham & Richardson building no. 405 |
4576 6650 |
19.07.1903 09.16.1903 |
from 1914 coal and ore transport in the North and Baltic Seas, 1919 to Belgium, 1921 Ostend , totally destroyed on January 21, 1943 after a mine hit by the subsequent explosion of the ammunition load; |
| Wartenfels |
Joh. C. Tecklenborg building no. 191 |
4505 8550 |
10.10.1903 21.12.1903 |
applied off Aden on August 19, 1914, deployed under the British flag without changing its name, sunk southwest of Fastnet by the German U 81 submarine on February 5, 1917 ; |
| Axenfels |
Flensburger SG building no. 233 |
4464 6420 |
01/25/1904 03/13/1904 |
Stranded off the Spanish coast in 1912, recovered only months later, hung up in Massaua in 1914 , confiscated by Italy in 1915: Alberto Cavaletto , 1924: Giorgio Fassio , 1928: Annina , 1933 demolished; |
Web links
- The Ehrenfels 1903-1919 on ddghansa
- Fall of the Ostend in 1943
literature
- Hans Georg Prager: DDG Hansa - from liner service to special shipping , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1976, ISBN 3-7822-0105-1