Bockenheim (ship, 1918)
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The Bockenheim , built in 1918, was the first cargo ship of this name from 1921 to 1924 by the Unterweser tugboat company . The ship sailed until 1921 as the Dutch Megrez and German Karpin , after 1924 as the Norwegian Askild , which ran aground in a storm off Newfoundland in 1942 .
Construction and technical data
The ship was in the Dutch Papendrecht at the shipyard J. & A. van der Schuyt under the hull number 93 on their own account given to Kiel . It was originally supposed to be given the name Jan van Arkel , which had already been used in the in-house shipping company J. & A. van der Schuyt . The launch took place on February 20, 1918, but since the ship had found a buyer, it was christened Megrez after the star of the same name Megrez .
It was 61.69 meters long, 12.84 meters wide and had a draft of 4.80 meters. It was measured with 1906 GRT or 1120 NRT and had a load capacity of 3097 tdw. The drive consisted of a 3-cylinder triple expansion machine from the own shipyard, the output of which was 900 hp . This acted on a screw , the steamer reached a speed of 8.0 knots . The crew consisted of 22 men.
history
Dutch cargo ship Megrez (1918-1920)
The shipping company Van Nievelt, Goudriaan & Co.'s Stoomvaart Maatschappij from Rotterdam took over the steamer from the shipyard on May 15, 1918. The shipping company, which existed from 1905 to 1991, mainly transported wood from the Baltic Sea to the Netherlands in the summer months and was on the trampoline trip in winter . The voyages of the Megrez are to be classified in this context until the shipping company separated from the ship again in 1920.
Cargo ship Karpin of the Roland Line (1920–1921)
For the Roland-Linie, the Karpin was part of an exchange deal with Van Nievelt, Goudriaan & Co.'s Stoomvaart Maatschappij : The Roland-Linie gave the two freighters Rapot (2) and Wido , which were in the final equipment, to the Dutch and received for the two newbuildings threatened with delivery to the victorious powers in exchange for ten smaller steamers - including the Megrez on November 8, 1920 . She initially chartered these ships to the Rob shipping company . M. Sloman for the Mediterranean service, but soon took up the Levante voyage himself. However, the Roland line quickly sold the Karpin along with six other small steamers.
Freight ship Bockenheim of the Unterweser shipping company (1921–1924)
After the ship was purchased on November 11, 1920, the Unterweser tugboat company from Bremen gave the ship the name Bockenheim after the Bockenheim district of Frankfurt am Main , which was the name before it was renamed Unterweser Reederei . The shipping company's new parent company, Metallgesellschaft , had recently acquired the majority of shares in the shipping company and, with the expansion of the shipping company to include cargo shipping, also introduced a new name concept. Since the metal company had its headquarters in Frankfurt, the names of Frankfurt districts with the ending "-heim" became trademarks of the ships. As one of the first ships of the shipping company and at the same time as the first steamer, the new acquisition was named Bockenheim .
For the metal company, the Unterweser tugboat company and Unterweser Reederei mainly took on the transport of ore and metal, during which Swedish ore was loaded in Narvik, Norway , and transported to the continent. Here, larger ships were more economical to use than smaller ones. The first Bockenheim was soon replaced by the older but larger second Bockenheim . The freighter, built in 1918, was sold to Norway on May 25, 1924.
Norwegian cargo ship Askild (1924–1942)
The buyer of the ship was the Rederi AS Aladdin in Oslo , which gave the steamer the name Askild . The shipping company, founded by Jørgen Tallaksen Farsjø in 1916, operated a small fleet of four to five ships in the tramp shipping . The routes or freight of the ship from these years have not been recorded.
During the German occupation of Norway, the Weser Exercise company , the ship was on the American east coast. In April 1940, the ship was placed under the Nortraship (Norwegian Shipping & Trade Mission) in London and carried out replenishment transports on the side of the Allies . In 1940 it mainly operated connections along the American east coast, from 1941 the routes increasingly led to the Caribbean. From December 1941 she drove with a few SC convoys from Halifax to Liverpool , but most of her journeys remained along the American east coast. On December 2, 1942, the steamer ran aground in ballast from St. John's to the St. Lawrence River at Cape Race . Two of the 22 crew members died.
See also
literature
- Reinhart Schmelzkopf: The German Merchant Shipping 1919–1939. Volume 1: Chronicle and evaluation of the events in shipping and shipbuilding. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg, Hamburg 1975, ISBN 3-7979-1847-X .
- Reinhart Schmelzkopf: The German Merchant Shipping 1919–1939. Volume 2: List of all ships over 500 GRT with all technical and historical data. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg, Hamburg 1975, ISBN 3-7979-1859-3 .
- Reinhold Thiel: North German Lloyd. Roland Line 1905–1992. Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 1999, ISBN 3-89757-008-4 .
- Jan Mordhorst: 125 years of Unterweser Reederei URAG: 1890–2015. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7822-1219-9 .
Web links
- Megrez at marhisdata.nl , accessed on November 2, 2019
- Rotterdam Zuid Amerika Lijn / Van Nievelt, Goudriaan & Co.'s Stoomvaart Maatschappij at theshipslist.com , access on November 2, 2019
- JT Farsjø & Co, Oslo at skipet.no (Norwegian), accessed on November 2, 2019
- D / S Askild at warsailors.com , accessed November 2, 2019
Footnotes
- ↑ a b J. Mordhorst: 125 years of Unterweser Reederei URAG: 1890–2015. 2015, p. 210.
- ^ R. Schmelzkopf: Die deutsche Handelsschiffahrt 1919–1939. Volume 2, 1975, p. 198.
- ↑ a b Megrez at marhisdata.nl
- ↑ Rotterdam Zuid Amerika Lijn / Van Nievelt, Goudriaan & Co.'s Stoomvaart Maatschappij at theshipslist.com
- ^ R. Schmelzkopf: Die deutsche Handelsschiffahrt 1919–1939. Volume 1, 1975, p. 33.
- ^ R. Thiel: North German Lloyd. Roland Line 1905–1992. 1999, p. 39f., P. 43.
- ^ J. Mordhorst: 125 years of Unterweser Reederei URAG: 1890–2015. 2015, p. 35ff.
- ^ J. Mordhorst: 125 years of Unterweser Reederei URAG: 1890–2015. 2015, p. 41, p. 210.
- ↑ JT Farsjø & Co, Oslo at skipet.no
- ↑ D / S Askild at warsailors.com