Bogota (ship, 1938)
Bogota in Singapore
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The Bogota of North German Lloyd was the lead ship of two motor vessels for the shuttle service on the west coast of South America. The new ships replaced the small steamers Cali and Manizales that had been in use there for over ten years . The new ships with a bridge structure amidships and engine and chimney at the stern relocated to South America after completion in 1938 and took over the feeder service.
When the war broke out, the Bogota was in Guayaquil , Ecuador . In January 1940 she moved to Coquimbo , Chile , where the sister ship Quito also arrived. In May 1941, both ships left this port to escape to Japan. Although they left the same night, they made the trip separately. In June, was Bogota in the Marshall Islands of the Elsa Essberger refueled. Shortly afterwards she received the emergency call from Osorno, who was driving with machine damage . The Bogota found the floating station wagon and took it in tow. On July 3, 1941, the tug reached Yokohama after 1800 nm .
In 1946 the Bogota Maru was used to repatriate Japanese troops. In July 1950 the ship was returned to the North German Lloyd. In May 1955, the NDL sold one of the few pre-war ships it had received back to Denmark, where it was used as Astrid Sven . At the end of 1957 the ship was resold to Greece, where it was renamed Phrygia . From 1964 she was used as the Alcyone fishing ship.
On May 9, there was an explosion in the engine room 100 km north of St. Louis , Senegal . The ship burned out completely and sank on May 11, 1964.
Mission history
Since 1926, the North German Lloyd operated a feeder line to the German West Coast Service to South America, in which the NDL had a share by taking over the Roland-Linie since 1926. In 1926 and 1927 the small steamers Cali (until August 1926: Fredenhagen , 1917, 1023 BRT) and Manizales (until April 1927: Pleskow , 1918, 1023 BRT) of the Hanseatic Steamship Company from Lübeck were renamed and used off the South American coast. The steamers built by Henry Koch in Lübeck had a load capacity of 1300 tdw and offered space for 10 passengers in cabins and further deck passengers. The Lübeck shipping company had been bought by the Roland-Linie, but used its ships under its own flag. From 1927, Hapag also took part in this service with its small, former Levante freighters Durazzo and Cerigo . In the course of the unbundling of the German shipping companies, the Cali and Manizales were not registered for the NDL in Bremen until August 4, 1934.
To replace these steamers, NDL ordered two modern motor ships with a load capacity of 1577 tdw and space for twelve passengers from Schiffbau-Gesellschaft Unterweser in 1937, which came into service in 1938 and replaced the predecessors sold to Chile. Launched on December 18, 1937, the Bogota was delivered to the NDL as a type ship on March 18, 1938. Just four days later, under Captain Alfred Möller, she set sail with cargo on her maiden voyage to the west coast of Central America. It was stationed in Puerto Cristobal, the port of Colón on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal , and now collected or distributed cargo and passengers on the north and west coast of South America to ports that were not called by the combination ships of the main line. Her sister ship Quito , which arrived in the summer , was stationed in Guayaquil , Ecuador , and performed the same service.
Securing the ship
When the Bogota received the agreed war warning signal on August 26, 1939, she left Puerto Cristobal for Guayaquil, where the Quito had been since the 24th. She passed the Panama Canal and on the way called at Buenaventura in Colombia and arrived on the day the war broke out in Guayaquil, where she stayed until January 3, 1940, before continuing to Coquimbo , Chilean, which was believed to be safer . January arrived. The sister ship Quito carried out this change of protective port a day later. The Cerigo Hapag remained there. The NDL then tried to sell both ships in Chile, which did not succeed. The captains of the feeder were therefore instructed in 1941 to attempt to break out of the Chilean port on a dark night and call at Japan. At the beginning of April, the British regional command received information from the Peruvian authorities about the German intentions and dispatched the auxiliary cruiser HMCS Prince Henry , which had just prevented the combination ships Hermonthis and Munich from fleeing Callao , to the south. April 14th was reported as the outbreak date. When the small German ships did not leave the port, the auxiliary cruiser was ordered to Antofagasta on the 19th .
On May 18, 1941, the two small motor freighters managed to leave the port of Coquimbo unhindered. The ships separated to reach Yokohama one at a time. On June 15, the Bogata reached Ailinglapalap in the Marshall Islands, where it was refueled from the Elsa Essberger (6103 GRT). The supplier helped the Bogata crew to disguise themselves as Japanese Heizan Maru and on June 16 the Bogata continued its voyage. Two days later she heard the emergency call of Osorno (Hapag, 6951 GRT), who was drifting in the Pacific with machine damage , and who was also on her way to Japan from Talcahuano , Chile. The Bogota found the floating station wagon and took it in tow. On July 3, 1941 the tug reached Yokohama after 1800 nm , whereby the small ship had to be refueled twice from the Osorno .
The sister ship Quito arrived in Yokohama on June 27th. On July 28, 1941, the two feeder ships of the NDL were taken over by the German Navy as supply ships for the special marine service.
War effort
It was not until the autumn of 1943 that the Bogota was called into service when it was sent to Malaya to serve as a supply for the German and Italian transport submarines. Her first task, however, was to supply the Japanese submarine I-34 in the Indian Ocean at the end of November before it sailed into the South Atlantic. This boat, which had left Singapore on November 11, 1943, was sunk on the 13th by the British submarine HMS Taurus . On December 23, however, they supplied the following transport submarine I-29 under Kinashi Takakazu with 120 tons of diesel and food, which also successfully reached Lorient in occupied France.
The ship was then used for various transport tasks for the submarines of the Kriegsmarine. Since the arrival of U 511 under Lieutenant Fritz Schneewind on July 16, 1943 in Penang , a base for the so-called monsoon boats developed there , for which the sister ship Quito served as an auxiliary ship. In November 1944, the German base was relocated to Jakarta due to ongoing submarine and air raids . Necessary repairs were carried out in Singapore or Surabaya . The two auxiliary ships regularly procured fuel from Balikpapan and transported supplies, spare parts and personnel between the bases they used. Immediately before the German surrender, the Quito with a cargo of fuel oil was lost on the way from Balikpapan to Jakarta after April 28. The Bogota and the existing submarines were occupied by the Japanese on May 5, 1945 and the crews interned.
On May 6, 1945 the Bogota was renamed Bogota Maru and assigned to the 10th Japanese Fleet as a tender for auxiliary minesweepers. In fact, it was used as a transporter in South Asia. The ship was armed with three 20 mm anti-aircraft machine guns and some members of the German crew are said to have been used on it for a short time. At the end of May, the ship was operational as a Japanese ship and in June ran with a mixed load (336 ts - vehicles, 165 ts of explosives, 41 ts of engine and aircraft spare parts, 100 ts of aviation fuel, 130 ts of rice and food, 120 ts of salt, 71 ts tobacco, 2 ts vegetables) from Jakarta to Singapore.
Post-war deployment
On December 1, 1945, the Allied Repatriation Service took over the Bogota Maru with the mission number BB022, which was not in a seaworthy condition in Singapore. On March 25, 1946, she met Tamano , where she was being repaired. She reached Saigon at the end of April to take over troops for the return home for the first time. Another deployment between Bangkok and Japan took place at the end of May. After the two trips, the ship had to be repaired at Uraga in Yokosuka . This was followed by further trips to Hong Kong, Singapore, Okinawa, Palembang until the end of 1946. The stays in Japan were used for ongoing maintenance of the ship.
In July 1950, the ship was the only ship to be returned to North German Lloyd. However, like many ships , the Bogota was registered for the Roland-Linie Schiffahrts-Gesellschaft mbH during the construction phase of the NDL .
In May 1955, the NDL sold one of the few pre-war ships it had received back to Oluf Svendsen in Copenhagen , where it was used as Astrid Sven . In December 1957 the ship was sent to Greece to the Hellenic Mediterranean Lines in Piraeus , which used it as Phrygia . In 1964 it was sold again to Alcyone SA, also in Piraeus, who renamed the ship Alcyone and used it as a fishing ship .
The Alcyone's operating time was short, however. On May 9, 1964, an explosion occurred in the engine room 100 km north of St. Louis , Senegal on 16-49N, 16-29W. The fire could not be extinguished and the ship burned down completely.
The driving ship finally sank on May 11, 1964. 16 ° 47 '30 " N , 16 ° 32' 0" W .
literature
- Jung / Maass / Wenzel: Tankers and suppliers of the German fleet 1900-1980, Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1980, p. 445, 460 and. 467
- Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping Vol. V An era comes to an end from 1930 to 1990 , writings of the German Maritime Museum, volume 22
- Arnold Kludas: The ships of the North German Lloyd 1920 to 1970 . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1992, ISBN 3-7822-0524-3 .
Web links
- German ships in Japanese service
- Bogota curriculum vitae
- Curriculum vitae of Quito
- Sinking of the Teishu Maru ex Quito
- Fall of the Alcyone