Bockenheim (ship, 1942)
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The Bockenheim , converted from a soul light in 1949, was the fifth cargo ship of this name operated by the Unterweser shipping company and was scrapped in 1969 after a marine accident .
Construction and technical data
The ship originally came from an order from Maschinoimport from Moscow , which in 1940 had ordered 15 ice-reinforced soul lights with a load capacity of 3000 tons from the three Finnish shipyards Wärtsilä ( Helsinki ), Crichton (Helsinki) and Vulcan ( Turku ) . After the start of the German attack on the Soviet Union, the ( Operation Barbarossa ), the German Reich took on the building contract for the ship on August 7, 1941, along with another 38 contracts.
Keel laying to the soul judge
The Seeleichter was laid on keel on July 3, 1942 under the construction number 789 at Wärtsilä, Crichton-Vulcan plant in Turku , the launch took place on October 23, 1942 as Seeleichter 27/41 of the Navy . Its length was 92.10 meters, it was 13.40 meters wide and had a draft of 5.45 meters. It was measured at 2135 GRT and had a load capacity of 3660 tdw.
Conversion planning to a lifting ship
In 1943, the Navy planned the conversion of the Seeleichter into a lifting ship, which was to work together with the Seeleichter 23 , which was also to be converted, and whose completion should be completed in March 1945. It is unclear whether the completion in Finland and the handover to the marine salvage and distress service on 13 September 1944 as a soul Ichter 27/41 or even as a salvage barge lifting ship I was done. To carry out the remaining work, the ship was towed by the tugs Schwarzort and Monsun to Windau and from there to Denmark on January 29, 1945 . At the end of the war it is said to have been lying unfinished in Hamburg . According to one of the references in the literature, the renovation had not yet started. In Hamburg, the ship came into British hands in May 1945.
Conversion to a cargo ship
When URAG bought the lighter together with a second lighter on November 18, 1948, it was still in Bremerhaven . The purchase was a stroke of luck for the shipping company, as German shipping companies were forbidden to buy foreign ships at the time and newbuildings were often impossible to finance. The shipping company wanted to resume cargo shipping with the existing tugs and the two lighter purchases. During the investigation at the Seebeck shipyard , it turned out that the lighter could easily be converted into a freight motor ship. The Seeleichter received a MAN submarine engine with 1200 hp and was converted into a cargo ship Gonzenheim , but delivered to URAG on October 1, 1949 as a Bockenheim . The ship was now measured with 2258 GRT or 1499 NRT and had a deadweight of 4626 tons.
history
Following a shipping tradition, the converted freighter was the fifth ship to receive the name of the Frankfurt district of Bockenheim . When the Metallgesellschaft took over the majority of the shares in URAG in the 1920s , it also introduced a new name concept with the expansion of the shipping company to include cargo shipping. Since the metal company had its headquarters in Frankfurt, the names of Frankfurt districts with the ending "-heim" became trademarks of the ships. The shipping company had received the last Bockenheim in 1941 as compensation for the previously sunk name predecessor , but after a few weeks the Navy commandeered the ship and had it converted into Sperrbrecher 14 .
After the conversion to a cargo ship, the Bockenheim remained with URAG until it was scrapped in 1969. Freight was already waiting for the ship immediately after it was put into service: the Bockenheim first transported rice from Savona to Nordenham , followed by several trips with coal as cargo in the following year. For the next two decades, the ship performed its services in the shipping company unobtrusively and without major incidents.
The end of the ship came in 1969 when the freighter landed off Gotland in October . When investigating the damage in a Stockholm shipyard, it turned out that the damage was more extensive than initially assumed. Due to the age of the ship, the shipping company refrained from repairs and sold the Bockenheim on December 11, 1969 to the Hamburg scrap yard Eisen & Metall .
See also
literature
- Jan Mordhorst: 125 years of Unterweser Reederei URAG: 1890–2015. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7822-1219-9 .
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 6: Port operations vehicles (II: excavators, rescue and diving vehicles, icebreakers, tugs, transport vehicles), yachts and notifications, landing units (I). Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1989, ISBN 3-7637-4805-9 .
Web links
- Photo Bockenheim IMO 5047120 at shipspotting.com , accessed on November 10, 2019
- General plan of Bockenheim at digipeer.de , accessed on November 10, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b J. Mordhorst: 125 years of Unterweser Reederei URAG. 2015, p. 76ff.
- ↑ a b c d J. Mordhorst: 125 years of Unterweser Reederei URAG. 2015, p. 217.
- ↑ a b c E. Gröner, D. Jung, M. Maass: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 6, 1989, pp. 55f.
- ^ J. Mordhorst: 125 years of Unterweser Reederei URAG. 2015, p. 37.
- ^ J. Mordhorst: 125 years of Unterweser Reederei URAG. 2015, p. 78.
- ^ J. Mordhorst: 125 years of Unterweser Reederei URAG. 2015, p. 97.