Bahia Castillo (ship, 1913)

Bahia Castillo

Ship data flag  German Empire United Kingdom German Empire     other ship names General Belgrano Ship type Passenger ship home port Hamburg Owner Hamburg Süd AG Hugo Stinnes Hapag Shipyard Reiherstieg shipyard , Hamburg Build number 446 Launch January 4, 1913 Commissioning March 27, 1913 Whereabouts Sold for demolition in 1932

Ship dimensions and crew length 155.45 m ( Lüa ) 149.9 m ( Lpp ) width 18.1 m measurement 9,948 GRT from 1922: 10,056 GRT   crew 94 men

Machine system machine 2 compound machines Machine performance 4,300 PS (3,163 kW) Top speed 12.5 kn (23 km / h) propeller 2

Transport capacities Load capacity 11,065 dwt Permitted number of passengers 202 II. Class 2,500 between decks from 1922 : 142 II. Class 543 III. class

The Bahia Castillo of the Hamburg-South American Steamship Company (HSDG) came into service as the third ship of the Bahia class of the Hamburg shipping company in 1913 for emigrant traffic to South America.

The ship, built at the Reiherstieg shipyard , was delivered to Great Britain in 1919. In 1922 the shipping company Hugo Stinnes bought the ship for its South America service and put it into service as General Belgrano . When the Stinnes shipping company was taken over by Hapag in 1926 , the ship remained in service with La Plata. At the end of 1932, the ship was sold for demolition, which took place at the Deutsche Werft in Hamburg.

History of construction and use

The Bahia Castillo was one of the four large emigration ships that were built for the Hamburg-Süd from 1911 by the Reiherstieg shipyard and the Bremer Vulkan . The type ship of the class, the Bahia Blanca with hull number 444, was delivered by the Reiherstieg shipyard in early March 1912. The two-masted ships could transport over 2,000 emigrants or seasonal workers and were used between Hamburg and Buenos Aires.

The Bahia Castillo , manufactured under construction number 446, was launched on January 4, 1913 and began its maiden voyage to South America on April 11, 1913. The two ships built before her had been in service since March and May 1912, respectively. Compared to the first pair, the ships delivered in 1913 had one more deck in the deckhouse and about twice as large a passenger capacity in the second class. The first ships completed in 1912 were then retrofitted accordingly in 1913.

When war broke out in 1914, the Bahia Castillo and the Buenos Aires were in their homeland, while the Bahia Blanca in Puerto Madryn and the Bahia Laura in Pernambuco were launched.

The Bahia Castillo was used with the Buenos Aires in 1917 as a transport during the occupation of the Baltic Islands . Both ships were also used to transport the Baltic Division to Finland in April 1918.

Post war fate

On May 22, 1919, the Bahia Castillo was delivered to Great Britain according to the surrender conditions, where the shipping company Thompson & Co took over the operation of the ship.

In September 1922, the Stinnes shipping company bought the ship back to Germany and had it converted into a simple passenger ship for use in South America, with space for 142 passengers in a second class and 543 in a III. Class bot. Initially, the name was General San Martin , but it was then given the name General Belgrano and was the largest ship in the Stinnes lines.

On November 24, 1926, the General Belgrano and other ships of the Stinnes shipping company were taken over by Hapag without their area of ​​operation changing. Hapag's share in the joint liner service to South America was now provided by Baden , Bavaria and Württemberg and the ex-Stinnes ships Holm (ex Badenia ), General Miter (ex Artus ) and General Belgrano . In 1928 the General Belgrano was sent north to help save the Monte Cervantes, damaged on a cruise off Spitzbergen . Both ships met in Tromsø , as the Hamburg-Süd crusader had already received support from the Soviet icebreaker Krasin and had temporarily repaired the damage. The damaged vessel was brought into Hamburg by the deep- sea ​​tug Seefalke .

On December 20, 1932, the former Bahia Castillo was sold to the Deutsche Werft in Hamburg, where the ship was the first of the Bahia class to be demolished.

Fate of the sister ships
Surname	Shipyard	GRT	Launch	in service	further fate
Bahia Blanca	Reiherstieg BauNr. 444	9,349	December 30, 1911	03/02/1912	16 April 1918 sold to Argentina, troop transport and supply ship, 1935 sold to Italy for demolition, transporter and renamed Umbria (10,128 GRT) due to the Abyssinian War, then scheduled trip for Lloyd Triestino to Italian East Africa and India, in June 1940 with a load of ammunition Sunk by the crew themselves off Port Sudan to prevent seizure by the British
Buenos Aires	Bremer Vulkan BauNr. 554	9,155	04/02/1912	May 10, 1912	Delivered to France on June 20, 1919, initially used by Chargeurs Reunis, sold to Messageries Maritimes in 1921 , conversion of the passenger facility for 70 passengers 1st class / 56 2nd class / 108 III. Class, renamed Cephee from 1922, deployed to Australia and Nouméa , from 1924 also up to 2,000 emigrants, from 1934 also travel via Panama, January 1936 sold for demolition to Blyth (Northumberland)
Bahia Laura	Bremer Vulkan BauNr. 562	9,790	December 30, 1911	03/02/1912	Confiscated on June 1, 1917 in Pernambuco by Brazil, deployed as Caxias, deployed by Lloyd Brasileiro from 1923 , renamed Ruy Barbosa , deployment between Brazil and Hamburg, also purchased in 1927, stranded on July 31, 1934 on the journey home from Hamburg near Leixões and decreased

The Bahia names were used again from 1938 for freighters purchased by DDG Hansa and from 2007 for container ships flying the Liberian flag.

literature

• Arnold Kludas : The ships of Hamburg-Süd 1871 to 1951 . Gerhard Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg 1976, ISBN 3-7979-1875-5 .
• Arnold Kludas: The History of German Passenger Shipping. Volume 3: Rapid growth 1900 to 1914. Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-8225-0039-9 : ( Writings of the German Maritime Museum 20)
• Arnold Kludas: The History of German Passenger Shipping. Volume 4: Destruction and rebirth 1914 to 1930. 1989, ISBN 3-8225-0047-X . (Writings of the German Maritime Museum, Volume 21)
• Hans Georg Prager : Blohm & Voss: Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft , Herford 1977, ISBN 3-7822-0127-2 .
• Claus Rothe: German ocean passenger ships 1896 to 1918 . Steiger Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-921564-80-8 .

Web links

• HSDG ship list on "theshipslist.com"
• History of Bahia Castillo (1913 - 1932) on "schiffe-maxim.de"
• Dates and history of the Bahía Blanca (span.) On histamar.com.ar
• LE CÉPHÉE ex Buenos Aires (French) on "messageries-maritimes.org"
• paquebot CÉPHÉE (French) on "frenchlines.com"
• Ruy Barbosa (II) (port.) On "navios e navegadores"

Footnotes

1. ↑ Rothe, p. 141.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Kludas: The History of German Passenger Shipping , Volume III, p. 45.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Kludas: The ships of Hamburg-Süd 1871-1951 , p. 80.
4. ^ Herbert: Kriegsfahrten German merchant ships , p. 145.
5. ^ Herbert, p. 148.
6. ^ Kludas: Passenger Shipping , Volume IV, p. 177.
7. ↑ Kludas: Passenger Shipping , Volume IV, p. 140.
8. ↑ Kludas: Passenger Shipping , Volume IV, p. 212.
9. ↑ Rothe, p. 131.
10. ↑ Wreck of the Umbria ( Memento of the original of September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Rothe, p. 132.
12. ↑ Rothe, p. 144.
13. ^ Loss of the Ruy Barbosa
14. ^ Loss of Bahia Castillo, bought in 1938
15. ^ The Bahia Castillo from 2007