Bockenheim (ship, 1913)

Bockenheim

Ship data flag  United Kingdom German Empire Greece     other ship names Winterton (1913-1925) Naias (1932-1933) Ship type Cargo ship Callsign QLWT home port Bremen Owner Unterweser Reederei AG (URAG) Shipyard Sir Raylton Dixon and Company , Middlesbrough Build number 582 Launch July 22, 1913 Commissioning September 1913 Whereabouts scrapped in La Spezia from January 3, 1933

Ship dimensions and crew length 109.60 m ( Lüa ) width 15.92 m Draft Max. 8.05 m measurement 3868 BRT, 2445 NRT

Machine system machine a three cylinder triple expansion machine Machine performance 1500 PSi Top speed 9.5 kn (18 km / h) propeller 1

Transport capacities Load capacity 7522 dw

The Bockenheim used from 1925 to 1932 was the second cargo ship of this name operated by the Bremen Unterweser Reederei (URAG). The ship was built in 1913 and previously sailed as Winterton under the British flag and then as Naias under the Greek flag until it was dismantled in 1933 . The ship was named after the Bockenheim district of Frankfurt am Main .

Construction and technical data

The ship was laid down in Great Britain at the Sir Raylton Dixon and Company shipyard in Middlesbrough in North Yorkshire under construction number 582. The launch took place on July 22, 1913 under the name Winterton , the completion of the work and the delivery to the British shipping company took place in September 1913.

It was 109.60 meters long, 15.92 meters wide and had a draft of 8.05 meters. It was measured with 3868 GRT or 2445 NRT and had a load capacity of 7522 tdw. The drive consisted of a three-cylinder triple expansion machine from G. Clark Ltd. from Sunderland, whose power was 1500 PSi . This acted on a screw, the steamer reached a speed of 9.5 knots .

history

Cargo ship Winterton under British and Imperial flags

From delivery to the British shipping company Denaby & Cadeby Main Colleries Ltd. in Hull in September 1913 until it was sold to Germany in 1925, the Winterton has an eventful history under several flags and shipping companies. She kept her name Winterton throughout . This comes from the village of the same name Winterton in North Lincolnshire .

The shipping company Denaby & Cadeby Main Colleries Ltd. there was actually a coal mine in Hull that had permission to transport its coal on its own ships. Usually the ships were used as warehouse hulks in Brixham , Devon , but they also carried out transports on their freighters to South Africa and North America. In September 1913, the month of delivery, the Winterton set out on her first voyage. Until the outbreak of the First World War , she made three longer trips.

When the First World War broke out , the Winterton was in Hamburg and was immediately confiscated by the German government with the British declaration of war on August 4, 1914. As a transporter, the ship was subordinated to the "Feldisenbahnchef" - the railway transport system under military command - and from 1915 carried out transports of army goods. From August 1, 1918, the Imperial Navy used the Winterton as a target ship for the submarine school. After the war, it was returned to the British owner on January 21, 1919.

Only a short time later the British shipping company changed its name and was called Denaby Shipping & Commercial Co. Ltd. from 1920, still based in Hull. Voyages of the ship are only published occasionally - at least one voyage in January 1922 from Portland , Maine to London is documented. A year or two later - in 1923 or 1924 - Denaby sold Winterton to Grove Shipping Co. Ltd. in Cardiff , this in turn in February 1925 the ship to Germany.

Freight ship Bockenheim of the Unterweser shipping company

After purchasing the ship on February 19, 1925, the Unterweser Reederei from Bremen renamed the ship to Bockenheim , a district of Frankfurt am Main. The parent company of the shipping company, Metallgesellschaft , had its headquarters there and used the names of Frankfurt districts as trademarks of the URAG ships. This was the second ship of the same name for the shipping company. She had previously separated from her name predecessor in May 1924. Although five years younger than the third Bockenheim , it turned out to be too small for the shipping company.

For the metal company, URAG mainly took on ore and metal transports in tramp shipping. Swedish ore was loaded in the Norwegian port of Narvik and transported to the continent. Here, larger ships were more economical to use than smaller ones. Just as the second Bockenheim had replaced the first ship of this name, it was replaced by the next larger and younger third Bockenheim in 1932 . The freighter, built in 1913, was sold to Greece in 1932.

Greek cargo ship Naias

Purchased by the Unterweser shipping company on May 14, 1932, the ship was owned by the Greek shipping company AD Callinicos, founded by Anastase Denis Callinicos, for only about half a year. The ship's new name, Naias , is derived from the nymph who lives in springs and waters. However, nothing more is known of the history of the ship at this shipping company than the home port of Ithaca . The shipping company will sell the ship again at the end of the year. On January 3, 1933, it arrived in La Spezia for demolition.

See also

• List of ships with the name Bockenheim

literature

• 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 .
• Erich Gröner, Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 5: Auxiliary Ships II: Hospital Ships, Residential Ships, Training Ships, Research Vehicles, Port Service Vehicles. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1988, ISBN 3-7637-4804-0 .

Web links

• http://www.teesbuiltships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=1913&builder=&a1Page=3&ref=167189&vessel=WINTERTON accessed April 18, 2017
• Lloyd's of London (1933). "Steamers & Motorships": http://www.plimsollshipdata.org/pdffile.php?name=32b1057.pdf accessed on April 18, 2017  ( page no longer available )
• http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1732821 accessed on April 18, 2017
• http://conisbroughheritage.co.uk/Coal%20Transport.html accessed April 18, 2017
• http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishBVLSMN1408.htm accessed on April 18, 2017
• http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9490769 accessed on April 18, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lloyd's of London (1933). "Steamers & Motorships": http://www.plimsollshipdata.org/pdffile.php?name=32b1057.pdf Schmelzkopf, p. 58, Mordhorst, p. 213, Gröner, p. 136, cf. http://www.teesbuiltships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=1913&builder=&a1Page=3&ref=167189&vessel=WINTERTON  ( page no longer available )
2. ↑ conisbroughheritage.co.uk
3. ↑ cf. http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1732821 List of the archive holdings with naming of the dates (September 30, 1913 - January 22, 1914, February 4, 1914 - May 5, 1914 and May 8, 1914 - July 30, 1914), but not the ports of departure and destination.
4. ↑ http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishBVLSMN1408.htm Mordhorst, p. 213, Gröner, p. 136, http://www.teesbuiltships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=1913&builder=&a1Page= 3 & ref = 167189 & vessel = WINTERTON
5. ↑ discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
6. ↑ http://www.teesbuiltships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=1913&builder=&a1Page=3&ref=167189&vessel=WINTERTON Mordhorst, p. 213.
7. ↑ Mordhorst, p. 41, p. 213.
8. ↑ Mordhorst, p. 213, http://www.teesbuiltships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=1913&builder=&a1Page=3&ref=167189&vessel=WINTERTON