Bockenheim (ship, 1924)

Bockenheim

Ship data flag  Spain Netherlands German Empire     other ship names Anboto-Mendi Kieldrecht Ship type Cargo ship Callsign QMLF, DOER home port Bremen Owner Unterweser Reederei AG (URAG) Shipyard John Readhead and Sons , South Shields Build number 475 Launch May 17, 1924 Commissioning June 1924 Whereabouts Sunk April 9, 1940 in Narvik itself Coordinates: 68 ° 25 ′ 21.8 ″  N , 17 ° 22 ′ 43.4 ″  E

Ship dimensions and crew length 123.08 m ( Lüa ) width 16.33 m Draft Max. 8.00 m displacement 10,150  t measurement 4902 BRT, 2987 NRT   crew 31

Machine system machine a 3-cylinder triple steam engine Machine performance 1500 hp / 2200 hp Top speed 12 kn (22 km / h) propeller 1

Transport capacities Load capacity 8765 dw

The Bockenheim was a cargo ship that the Bremer Unterweser Reederei (URAG) used from 1932 to 1940. The ship, built in 1924, sailed briefly as the Anboto-Mendi under the Spanish flag, and as Kieldrecht under the Dutch flag in 1924 , until she was sold to URAG in 1932. During the German invasion of Norway in April 1940, the crew sank the ship in Narvik when warships were approaching.

Construction and technical data

The ship was laid down in Great Britain at the John Readhead and Sons shipyard in South Shields in North East England under construction number 475. The launch took place on May 17, 1924 under the name Anboto-Mendi , the completion of the work and the delivery to the Spanish shipping company Sota y Aznar took place in June 1924.

It was 123.08 meters long, 16.33 meters wide and had a draft of 8.00 meters. It displaced 10150 tons, was measured at 4902 GRT or 2987 NRT and had a load capacity of 8756 tdw. The drive consisted of a 3-cylinder triple steam engine from G. Clark Ltd. from Sunderland, whose power is given with 1500  HP , but also with 2200 HP. This acted on a screw, the steamer reached a speed of 12 knots . The crew consisted of 31 officers and men.

history

Spanish cargo ship Anboto-Mendi

When it was taken over by the Sota y Aznar shipping company from Bilbao in June 1924, this was the second ship of this name. "Anboto-Mendi" is the Basque name of the Amboto mountain in the Spanish Basque Country.

At that time, the shipping company, founded in 1906, was mainly using its ships in coastal shipping. The Anboto-Mendi was only owned by the shipping company for a few months - it was already selling the steamer to the Netherlands in December 1924. Which routes the ship traveled in this short time can no longer be traced, nor is the reason for the sale in the year of purchase.

Dutch steamer Kieldrecht

After the purchase in December 1924, the ship received the name Kieldrecht from the new owner, the shipping company Stoomvaart Maatschappij "De Maas" (Van Ommeren) from Rotterdam, and was put into service on December 18, 1924. There it was the third ship with this name. The shipping company's ships were all named after Dutch and Flemish villages and towns, whose name ends with "Drecht" - hence the name "Drecht" ships. The Kieldrecht itself was named after the village in the Belgian municipality of Beveren in the province of East Flanders .

For the Kieldrecht too little information is available to trace the ship's routes more precisely. Since the shipping company's fleet was on the move around the world at the time - for example in the North Sea and Baltic Sea, to Cuba, India and the Dutch East Indies - it was difficult to narrow down the routes for this ship based on a focal point. In 1930 the ship was launched. After eight years, the ship's service in the shipping company ended - they sold it to Bremen in May 1932.

Freight ship Bockenheim of the Unterweser shipping company

After the purchase in May 1932, the ship joined Unterweser Reederei AG (URAG) in Bremen on June 2nd and was named Bockenheim , a district of Frankfurt am Main. The headquarters of the parent company, the metal company, was in Frankfurt . At URAG this was the third ship of the same name. The name predecessor was sold to Greece as Naias in May of that year and was broken up in Italy in 1933. The new Bockenheim was not only eleven years younger, but also had a loading capacity of around 1000 tons larger.

First, the shipping company sent the ship to the shipyard: At the Germania shipyard in Kiel , the machine's firing system was switched from coal to oil. The voyages of the steamer led to the European ports, but mainly for the ore transport of the parent company to Narvik in Norway in order to load Swedish ore there.

Right before the outbreak of war, the Bockenheim left Narvik on August 26, 1939 for the port of destination Rotterdam. With the outbreak of war she left her course and arrived in Bremen on September 2nd. On April 9, 1940, the ship was back in Narvik and waited there to be loaded with ore. When German destroyers entered Narvik and shot at the ship as part of the Weser exercise , the German attack on Denmark and Norway, the captain of the Bockenheim stopped them for British warships. Unaware of the situation, he gave the crew the order to set the ship on the ground by opening the sea valves and also to set fire to it. The remains of the wreck were still there until at least 1995.

See also

• List of ships with the name Bockenheim

literature

• Willem H. Moojen: Dutch Merchant Navy: 1920-1929 (1). Lanasta, Emmen (Netherlands) 2009, ISBN 978-90-8616-060-0 .
• Jan Mordhorst: 125 years of Unterweser Reederei URAG: 1890–2015. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7822-1219-9 .
• 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 .
• Reinhart Schmelzkopf: Mendi's and Monte's; The history of the Spanish shipping company Sota y Aznar, its predecessor and successor , in: Strandgut. Materials on the history of shipping no. 20, Cuxhaven, pp. 35–78.

Web links

• Lloyd's of London (1932). "Navires a Vapeur et a Moteurs": http://www.plimsollshipdata.org/pdffile.php?name=32b1016.pdf accessed on March 17, 2017
• http://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/A-Ships/anbotomendi1924.html (with photos as "Kieldrecht", "Bockenheim" and the wreck), accessed on March 17, 2017
• http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/aznar.shtml#sota accessed on March 17, 2017
• http://vidamaritima.com/2011/04/el-segundo-anboto-mendi/ accessed on March 17, 2017
• http://www.buques.org/Navieras/Aznar/Aznar-1_E.htm accessed on March 17, 2017
• http://www.zeevlootvos.bebelaar.nl/ accessed on March 17, 2017
• http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?157684 accessed on March 17, 2017
• http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/40-04.htm accessed on March 17, 2017

Footnotes

1. ^ Lloyd's of London (1932). "Navires a Vapeur et a Moteurs": http://www.plimsollshipdata.org/pdffile.php?name=32b1016.pdf , Schmelzkopf, Handelsschiffahrt, p. 58, Mordhorst, p. 213, Moojen, p. 92, cf. . also http://vidamaritima.com/2011/04/el-segundo-anboto-mendi/ and http://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/A-Ships/anbotomendi1924.html
2. ↑ cf. Mordhorst, p. 213: there was a mix-up with the second Bockenheim ? Schmelzkopf, ibid., P. 59.
3. ↑ buques.org , cf. also to the shipping company: Reinhart Schmelzkopf: Mendi's and Monte's; The history of the Spanish shipping company Sota y Aznar, its predecessor and successor , in: Strandgut. Materials on the history of shipping no. 20 , Cuxhaven, pp. 35–78, or with additional literature: Jesús Maria Valdaliso Gago: Naviera Aznar, in: Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia, 2007 at: http://www.euskomedia.org/aunamendi/ 79084? & Idi = es , accessed on May 14, 2017.
4. ↑ vidamaritima.com
5. ↑ Moojen, p. 92, http://vidamaritima.com/2011/04/el-segundo-anboto-mendi/ Mordhorst, p. 49, - ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der Archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ zeevlootvos.bebelaar.nl ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ cf. - ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2017 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. 
8. ^ Moojen, p. 92.
9. ↑ Schmelzkopf, ibid., P. 58.
10. ↑ Mordhorst, p. 49, p. 213.
11. ↑ Mordhorst, p. 56, p. 61.
12. ↑ Mordhorst, p. 61, p. 213, cf. http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/40-04.htm
13. ↑ tynebuiltships.co.uk