Ehrenfels (ship, 1898)
 An 8000 tdw freighter of the DDG "Hansa"
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The second Ehrenfels of the German Steamship Company "Hansa" (DDG "Hansa") put into service in 1898 was a cargo ship of the 8000 tdw class, the standard ship type for traffic in the Middle East.
On May 9, 1902, the second Ehrenfels traveled home from Calcutta to Hamburg in a typhoon in the Indian Ocean at approximately the position 12 ° 30 ′ N , 56 ° 25 ′ E, lost. The captain and forty men were killed in the sea. It was the accident with most of the DDG Hansa victims.
History of the ship
The second Ehrenfels of the DDG "Hansa" was built in 1898 as the fourth ship of the new 8000 tdw freighters of the Bremen freight shipping company at Wigham Richardson & Co under construction number 346. The shipping company received over 30 similar ships of this size between 5000 and 6000 GRT by 1914.
The Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle was one of the first suppliers with the first Ehrenfels in 1882. From 1895 to 1910 it was the main supplier of DDG "Hansa" with almost 30 ships. The Ehrenfels and its three sister ships were the first series that the shipyard delivered to the DDG "Hansa", which was followed by more until 1906.
The 126 m long Ehrenfels was powered by a quadruple expansion engine of 2600 hp and could run up to 10.5 kn . On October 7, 1898, she was delivered to the Bremen shipping company.
On May 9, 1902, the Ehrenfels sank on the voyage from Calcutta to Hamburg with a load of jute, linseed and hides in a typhoon in the Indian Ocean at about 12 ° 30 'N / 56 ° 25' E. On May 13, 1902 a lifeboat with the chief officer and twenty-one men of the crew could be picked up at the position 15 ° 53 'N / 58 ° 46' E by the British steamer Queen Alexandra from Glasgow. Captain Gramberg and forty men of his crew were killed in the sea.
On May 17, 1902, the survivors arrived in Aden and, on the instructions of the German consul, traveled back to Germany on board the imperial mail steamer König Albert (10,484 GRT / 1899).
Fate of the sister ships
Neidenfels , Tannenfels and Bärenfels were briefly the largest ships of the DDG "Hansa" when they were commissioned until the second Drachenfels in 1900
| Surname | Shipyard | GRT tdw |
Launched in service |
further fate |
| Neidenfels |
Wigham Richardson building no. 326 |
5384 8270 |
November 19, 1896 December 14, 1896 |
1914 in Vigo, 1919 delivered to France, 1925 to Italy: Enrichetta , 1932 demolished |
| Fir rock | Wigham Richardson building no. 336 |
5480 8280 |
03/23/1898 04/9/1898 |
Applied by British destroyer HMS Chelmer off Mindanao on September 14, 1914 : Basilean , Hunslet , September 1921 Sale to Woermann Line : Waganda , scrapped in 1933 |
| Hohenfels | Wigham Richardson building no. 338 |
5469 8385 |
February 8, 1898 May 27, 1898 |
hung up in Tanjung Priok , returned to Germany with the cargo in 1919, delivered to Leith in July 1920 : Cape Recife , ran aground on February 20, 1929 off South Africa and lost |
| Ehrenfels (2) | Wigham Richardson building no. 346 |
5345 8000 |
July 21, 1898 October 7, 1898 |
sank in a typhoon on May 9, 1902 on the way home (41 dead) |
| Bear Rock |
Flensburger SG building no. 180 |
5609 8300 |
October 5, 1898 October 12, 1898 |
Confiscated in Port Said in 1914, 1915: Huntsvale , torpedoed and sunk on November 4, 1916 east of Malta by the German submarine UB 43 . |
More ships with the name Ehrenfels
The first Ehrenfels , named after Ehrenfels Castle near Rüdesheim am Rhein , was one of the three steamers that were already under construction in 1882 and were the first ships to be purchased in Great Britain for the newly founded DDG "Hansa".
| Surname | Shipyard | GRT tdw |
Launched in service |
further fate |
| Ehrenfels (1) |
Wigham Richardson building no. 138 |
2315 3450 |
03.1882 04/18/1882 |
Bought unfinished in 1882, auxiliary steamer when German East Africa was taken over in 1886, new triple expansion machine in 1886 , extended at AG Weser in October 1894 (2672 GRT), sold to Hamburg in 1898: St. Georg , stranded in September 1900, sold as wreckage to the USA / converted to a combined ship: Enterprise , launched in 1926 after engine damage / only canceled in Japan in 1937 |
| Ehrenfels (3) | Wigham Richardson building no. 405 |
4576 6650 |
24.07.1903 09.16.1903 |
4 similar ships built in Germany, in Hamburg in 1914, coal and ore transports, delivered in April 1919, in 1920 to Belgium, renamed Ostend in 1921 , lost on January 21, 1943 after a mine hit and an explosion of ammunition off Scotland |
| Ehrenfels (4) |
AG Weser Building No. 199 |
5911 8920 |
06/26/1914 07/24/1914 |
ex Neumark Hapag , delivered in 1919: Baron Cawdor , March 1926 Acquisition: Ehrenfels, January 1933 Sale to Schuchmann : Westsee , November 30, 1942 Mine hit at Petsamo , not recovered |
| Ehrenfels (5) | AG Weser Building No. 906 |
7752 10,414 |
23.12.1935 23.02.1936 |
Typical ship of a series (8 sister ships), 9 March 1943 self- sunk in Murmugoa (9 dead, 4 injured) |
| Ehrenfels (6) | AG Weser Building No. 1268 |
5560 10,312 |
25.11.1952 14.02.1953 |
Typical ship of a series (4 sister ships), 1973 Sale: Epimonos , broken off in 1979 after a fire |
| Ehrenfels (7) |
Kröger shipyard construction no. 1378 |
3595 5290 |
August 12, 1973 November 5, 1973 |
ex Ipswich Pioneer II , chartered November 24, 1976, surrendered again in November 1977: Middle East Pioneer , Aquila , Sea Road , Vomero , Luigi Cozza , canceled in 2004 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Loss of Cape Recife
- ↑ The sinking of the Huntsvale
- ↑ Fall of the Ostend
- ^ Downfall of the West Sea
Web links
literature
- Hans Georg Prager: DDG Hansa: From liner service to special shipping. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford, 1976, ISBN 3-7822-0105-1
- Reinhold Thiel: The history of the DDG Hansa. Volume 1: 1881-1918. HM Hauschild, Bremen, 2010, ISBN 3-8975-7477-2