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The ship class known as the Bärenfels class is a series of three cargo ships operated by the Bremen shipping company DDG "Hansa" . The new heavy lift ships were the shipping company's first post-war newbuildings.
history
On May 28, 1951, the Bärenfels was floated and christened in the construction dock as one of the first post-war buildings by a German shipyard after the construction restrictions due to the Potsdam Agreement had fallen. The new ships, the Bremen shipping company from the AG Weser in work Seebeck in Bremerhaven was built, based on the pre-war design Lichtenfels ships , which was further developed after the 1939th For the first time in DDG ships, and possibly for the first time in the world, the redesigned ship type had an engine system arranged aft with a bridge structure that was located well ahead of amidships with only two hatches in front. The officers' living quarters were located in the front superstructure, while the aircraft and facilities for the engineers, the kitchen staff and the twelve passengers were in the aft superstructure. A 165 t heavy lift boom was part of the loading gear. In hatches III and IV there were four pairs of rails for transporting locomotives.
construction
After the extensive loosening of the shipbuilding restrictions of the Potsdam Agreement , the DDG "Hansa" built up its cargo ship fleet from 1950, starting with the Bärenfels series and making purchases again. The keel for the first ship of the newly developed series was laid on November 13, 1950 and the completed Bärenfels was delivered to the shipping company on September 27, 1951 . Only four months later, on January 26, 1952, the shipping company was able to take over the last ship of the trio, the Braunfels .
Working time
The DDG "Hansa" employed the Bärenfels-class series in heavy goods service with loads such as lighters, wagons, locomotives and tugs in their traditional route to the east coast of the Indian subcontinent and to Pakistan. The heavy lift equipment was converted from 165 tons in 1954 to a capacity of 205 tons.
The Birkenfels was lost on April 7, 1966 on the voyage from Bremen to Khorramshar after a collision with the 15,395 GRT German motor freighter Marie Luise Bolten . They sank about one mile south of North obstacles within a short time after the collision fire ship in position 51 ° 39 ' N , 2 ° 31' O . All crew members were able to save themselves.
The Braunfels was on 22 August 1969 to the Cologne Group Dr. Rüger sold, but chartered back by Hansa and continued to be managed. On August 15, 1971, the Braunfels suffered a gearbox damage on a trip from Port Sudan to Bremen off the Spanish coast and had to interrupt its journey. The Dutch tug Cycloop towed the Braunfels into the port of La Coruña on August 19th . On September 28, 1971, the ship was returned by the Rüger Group to the DDG, which the Braunfels sold for demolition as a total economic loss for 638,000 DM and handed over to Aquilar y Peris in Valencia for demolition on October 4, 1971. The scrapping took place in Alicante from October 10, 1971.
The Bärenfels was sold to the Cologne-based company group Dr. Rüger sold and handed over in Bremen, but chartered back and still managed by Hansa. On June 28, 1972, the ship was sold to Cyprus for $ 240,000 and renamed Silver Sky . In 1976 the Greek shipping company Stavros Daifas Marine Enterprise bought the ship and continued to operate it as Silver Beach before it started its last voyage to Kaoshiung from Umm Said on January 5, 1979. It arrived there on February 1, 1979. The demolition at Tung Ho Steel Enterprise Co. began on February 22, 1979.
The ships
| The motor cargo ships of the Bärenfels class | |||||||
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| Surname | Floating up | delivery | Shipyard / construction number | measurement | drive | Whereabouts | |
| Bear Rock | May 28, 1951 | September 27, 1951 | AG Weser, Seebeck plant , Bremerhaven / 206 | 6974 GRT | 2 × MAN diesel engines | Demolished on February 22, 1979 in Kaohsiung | |
| Birch rock | July 14, 1951 | November 3, 1951 | AG Weser, Seebeck plant, Bremerhaven / 207 | 6974 GRT | 2 × MAN diesel engines | Sank on April 7, 1966 after a collision near the Nordhinder lightship (Scheldt estuary) | |
| Braunfels | 4th December 1951 | January 26, 1952 | AG Weser, Seebeck plant, Bremerhaven / 208 | 6974 GRT | 2 × MAN diesel engines | Demolition from October 10, 1971 in Alicante | |
literature
- H. Kannt, W. Brose: The cargo ships "Bärenfels", "Birkenfels" and "Braunfels" . In: Hansa . Vol. 88, No. 46/47 . Schiffahrts-Verlag "Hansa" C. Schroedter & Co., Hamburg November 1951, p. 1652-1657 .
- Hans Georg Prager: DDG Hansa . from liner services to special shipping. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1976, ISBN 3-7822-0105-1 .
- Ralf Witthohn: The new German merchant fleet . Freighters, tankers and containers. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1976, ISBN 3-7979-1870-4 .
- Peter Kiehlmann, Holger Patzer: The cargo ships of the DDG Hansa . HM Hauschild, Bremen 2000, ISBN 3-931785-02-5 .