The Belgrano class was a series of motor ships operated by the Hamburg Süd shipping company . Originally ten combination ships were ordered, to which two more structurally identical construction orders were later added. However, due to the events of the war, only nine ships were actually built.
After the end of the Second World War , Hamburg-Süd commissioned almost identical ships with the Santa class .
The ships
Building name
Shipyard / construction number
IMO number
Launch
delivery
Renaming and whereabouts
Belgrano
Howaldtswerke, Hamburg / 751
no
August 22, 1936
October 1, 1936
Taken over by the Kriegsmarine on March 21, 1940 , May 17, 1941 Sperrbrecher 11 , broken by a mine hit off Borkum on October 23, 1942 , brought in and back on the road in 1943, sunk in the Flensburg Fjord on January 4, 1945 after being hit by mines, lifted in 1946 , repaired and as Sperrbrecher 11 Belgrano , in mine search service on 20 September 1947 tow for demolition in Inverkeithing arrived
Porto Alegre
Flensburg shipbuilding company, Flensburg / 430
no
July 18, 1936
October 14, 1936
adopted on 21 March 1940 by the Navy, on 21 February 1945 in the Skagerrak by British bombs sunk
Montevideo
Howaldtswerke, Hamburg / 752
no
September 26, 1936
November 10, 1936
Detained in Rio Grande on November 20, 1939, forced sale to Lloyd Brasileiro , Brasiloide on January 27, 1942 , torpedoed and sunk by U 518 on February 18, 1943 off Bahia
Rio Grande
Howaldtswerke, Hamburg / 777
no
January 17, 1939
September 3
sunk in the South Atlantic on January 4, 1944
Paranaguá
Howaldtswerke, Hamburg / 778
no
March 15, 1939
May 4, 1939
March 21, 1940 A 7 taken over by the Navy, after a mine before the 17 December 1940 Den Helder dropped
Florida
Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack / 766
no
July 8, 1939
August 19, 1939
acquired by the Navy on March 21, 1940 April 14, 1940, the trip to Germany from Oslo before Skagen by the British submarine Sunfish sunk
Florianopolis
Howaldtswerke, Hamburg / 793
no
April 1940
October 1943
Sunk by Soviet air raid on June 28, 1944, lifted in 1945 and scrapped in Great Britain
Victoria
Howaldtswerke, Hamburg / 794
5217983
January 1941
December 1949
Unfinished after a bomb hit in 1944 and delivered to Yugoslavia in 1947 , completed in December 1949 in the Netherlands as Makedonija , canceled from December 1983 in Rijeka
handed over to the British Ministry of Transport on June 12, 1945 in Methil , Empire Wye , 1947 Eastern Saga , 1968 Nanfung , 1972 Nan Fung , scrapped in China from January 1975
literature
Otto J. Seiler: Course South America . Verlag ES Mittler & Sohn, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0523-1 .
Arnold Kludas: The ships of Hamburg-Süd 1871-1951 . 1st edition. Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg and Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-7979-1875-5 .
