As Brandenburg class , Augsburg-Class or Castle class designated ship class is a series of six cargo ships of the Hamburg-America Line (HAPAG). As it was the first ship to be built after the end of World War II , the class marked an important step in the rebuilding of the shipping company.
After the Petersberg Agreement was signed in November 1949, the Allies' restrictions on the construction of seagoing ships were relaxed by the Potsdam Agreement . In Germany, cargo ships up to 7200 GRT were again allowed to be built and operated by German shipping companies. Almost immediately afterwards, in early 1950, Hapag initially ordered the single ship Hamburg . Shortly afterwards, HAPAG and Norddeutscher Lloyd each ordered a series of six identical cargo ships. The similarly designed, but somewhat different in size, cargo ships were built at two shipyards. The Hapag ships were built between 1950 and 1953 at the Lübeck shipyard Orenstein-Koppel and Lübecker Maschinenbau AG. The type ship , the Brandenburg , was delivered on February 10, 1951 and the series was complete by November 21, 1953. The Rheinstein-class NDL ships were delivered from Bremer Vulkan as early as 1951.
Use at HAPAG
All ships were integrated into the South and Central America joint service of HAPAG and NDL. As the first ship of the series, the Naumburg was sold to the Transmares Nav. Chilena on September 17, 1969 . When Hapag merged with NDL, the remaining ships became the joint property of the new Hapag-Lloyd .
Later career
On January 12, 1971, the Brandenburg collided on a voyage from Bremen to Central America in the English Channel, about seven nautical miles south of Folkestone, with the unsecured wreck of the tanker Texaco Caribbean, which had sunk the day before . The Hapag-Lloyd freighter sank within a few minutes, killing 20 crew members. In 1971, Hapag-Lloyd sold the remaining four ships to various shipping companies. Two ships were taken over by the Hungarian Shipping Company in Budapest, one went to the Mediterranean Shipping Company in Geneva and the fourth to Co-Prosperity Shipping in Mogadishu.
The later Rafaela (ex Magdeburg ) ran on December 24, 1977 on a trip from Hull to Antwerp on the Hainsborough Sands, was later brought in to Belgium in March 1978 and met on March 4 for scrapping at the Boel & Zonen shipyard in Temse a. The Tisza (ex Augsburg ) was destroyed by a heavy fire in Rijeka on January 14, 1978, and arrived on June 11, 1979 for scrapping at the shipbreaker Hughes Bolckow in Blyth . The Siuli (ex Naumburg ) of United Shipping in Chittagong first entered his home port on July 17, 1980 and was arrested there on May 6 of the following year. After a few years lay in Chittagong, the Siuli was finally scrapped in situ from April 1986 to April 1987. The remaining two ships remained in service until 1986 and were then also canceled.
technology
The ships of the series were conventional general cargo ships with superstructures just aft amidships above the propulsion system and versatile loading facilities. The ships were equipped with 10 conventional loading booms of 3/5 tons and a 50-ton heavy lift boom for taking over heavy lift in hatch 2. In front of and behind the superstructures there were two dry cargo holds each with an intermediate deck. The hatches were closed with wooden hatch covers.
The first four ships had a two-stroke main engine of the type MAN D5Z60 / 110 with an output of 3600 HP (2646 kW), which allowed a speed of about 13.5 knots. The two most recently built ships in the class were instead equipped with a Sulzer 6SD72 two-stroke diesel engine with 4200 hp (3087 kW), which enabled 14.0 knots. These two most recently built ships were also given slightly larger superstructures, which were adapted to contemporary tastes with a slightly more rounded shape.
1971 Raba , demolition from October 10, 1986 in Vigo
Magdeburg
September 22, 1951
February 28, 1952
452
2696 GRT
1971 Rafaela , stranded at Hainsborough Sands on December 24, 1977, later removed and scrapped at Boel & Zonen in Tamise from March 4, 1978
augsburg
2nd July 1952
20th September 1952
453
2741 GRT
1971 Tisza , caught fire on January 14, 1978 in Rijeka and scrapped at Hughes Bolckow in Blyth from June 11, 1979
Naumburg
April 18, 1953
July 23, 1953
461
2826 GRT
1969 Cordillera , 1979 Siuli , arrested on May 6th in Chittagong and scrapped in Chittagong from April 1986 to April 1987
Weissenburg
September 8, 1953
November 21, 1953
462
2818 GRT
1971 Jane Phoenix , 1973 Bulsook , 1980 Albadr , 1982 Nagina Trader , 1985 Noble Trader , 1986 Hanan , 1986 Rose , demolished from March 12, 1986 in Gadani
literature
Witthöft, Hans Jürgen: HAPAG . Hamburg-America Line. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 1973, ISBN 3-7822-0087-X .
Schwadtke, Karl-Heinz: The new German merchant fleet in the picture . 2nd Edition. Gerhard Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg 1966.
Haws, Duncan: Merchant Fleets in Profile 4 . The ships of the Hamburg America, Adler and Carr lines. Patrick Stephens, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-85059-397-2 .
Krüger-Kopiske, Karsten Kunibert: The ships of Hapag-Lloyd . Drawings and CVs. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7822-0861-7 .
