Braunfels (ship, 1891)
 The Braunfels, photo after a painting
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The Braunfels of the Deutsche Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft Hansa (DDG "Hansa"), completed in 1891, was the shipping company's first ship to be entered in the registers with a length of over 100 m. In autumn 1904 the ship was one of those who were used in the Indian coastal voyage and was named Mirzapur, an Indian city .
The ship then reached the German Levante Line via the DG Argo and was used as a coal steamer on the march of the German Mediterranean Division to Turkey in 1914 .
In 1916, the ship was confiscated by the Entente powers in Piraeus and then used under the French flag as the Moulin Blanc . On 12 July 1920, was stranded in the Ile de Re in position 46 ° 15 '0 " N , 1 ° 34' 0" W .
History of the ship
The Braunfels got its name after the castle Braunfels of the Count Solms an der Lahn . It was the first new building of the shipping company that was registered with a length of over 100 m and a measurement of over 3000 GRT. The builder was Sunderland Shipbuilding , which had previously supplied the shipping company with the three somewhat smaller steamers of the Trifels class in 1888/89 for the line to Bombay and five steamers of the “Wine” class for the “Asian Line”.
The Braunfels (building no. 165), launched in January 1891 and delivered on March 9, had, like the steamers of the Trifels class, a clipper bow, two masts and an inclined long chimney and, in an emergency, rigging as a brigantine . It was 110 m in length and 102.4 m between the perpendiculars. The width was 12.5 m and the draft 7 m. The Braunfels was measured with 3007 GRT and had a carrying capacity of 4500 tdw. Driven by a 3-cylinder triple expansion machine of the shipyard of 1500 PSi, which acted on a propeller, the ship could reach a speed of 9.5 knots. It was the last new building to be delivered to DDG "Hansa" from the Sunderland shipyard .
The three steamers of the Stolzenfels class, which the Sir Raylton Dixon shipyard in Middlesbrough delivered, but no longer had a clipper bow , then came into service in Bombay in 1893/1894 .
Calls
The Braunfels was used with the ships of the Trifels and Stolzenfels classes to Bombay. On August 12, 1891, the Trifels, the shipping company's second seagoing vessel, was lost on its way home near Brest. As early as 1896, considerably more powerful ships, the Neidenfels and her sisters, were put into service. A new use was sought for the six older ships. The Braunfels and the Rothenfels and Lindenfels , built by Dixon , formed a newly founded coastal service of the shipping company in India and were given names by Indian cities. The Braunfels was renamed Mirzapur on November 28, 1904 . The other three ships were sold in Germany. The Indian coastal service was given up again in mid-1906.
The three ships deployed there were sold to the steamship company "Argo" , which was closely related to Norddeutscher Lloyd and had already acquired the similar Gutenfels and Stolzenfels in 1904 . The Mirzapur ex Braunfels was renamed Antares on June 10, 1906 .
On March 26, 1912, the Deutsche Levante-Linie AG (DLL) in Hamburg bought the Antares , which was renamed Bogados . This shipping company had already used a number of ships originally built for DDG "Hansa" on their services in the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea .
see → Ships of the DDG "Hansa" in the service of the DLL
Fate of war
The Bogados was in Piraeus shortly before the outbreak of World War I and was used as a coal ship for the German warships SMS Goeben and SMS Breslau of the Mediterranean Division, which wanted to march from Sicily to Turkey. The light cruiser HMS Gloucester , last shadowing the Germans , broke off the pursuit at Cape Matapan as ordered. In order to transfer the Mediterranean division to Turkey as intact as possible, the German commander refrained from attacking British units and coaled the previously ordered Bogados on August 9, 1914 near the island of Denoussa . On August 10, the Mediterranean Division entered the Dardanelles at around 5 p.m. , while the Bogados returned to Piraeus and was laid up in the neutral Greek port.
On September 3, 1916, the Bogados in Piraeus was confiscated by the Entente . Under the French flag, it came back on the road as Moulin Blanc . On July 12, 1920, the Moulin Blanc ran aground on a trip from Sfax , Tunisia, to La Pallice with a cargo of phosphate near Les Baleines , Île de Ré and was declared a total loss.
The "Bombay" ships
| Surname | Shipyard | GRT tdw |
Launched in service |
further fate |
|
Trifels (1) |
Sunderland construction no. 143 |
2766 4200 |
08.1888 09.27.1888 |
On 12 August 1891 on the journey home with a load of cotton it was lost due to navigation errors near Brest after being stranded |
| Gutenfels (1) | Sunderland construction no. 146 |
2800 4200 |
02.1889 03.29.1889 |
December 1904 sale to DG “Argo”: Europe , December 1905 to NDL, missing on the return journey from Norfolk at the end of April 1908 |
| Rheinfels (1) | Sunderland construction no. 155 |
2867 4200 |
06.1889 07.26.1889 |
December 1904 to Diederichsen: Forsteck , 1908 resale to Italy: Febo , December 18, 1921 lost due to stranding off Alexandria |
| Braunfels (1) | Sunderland construction no. 165 |
3007 4500 |
01.1891 March 9, 1891 |
November 28, 1904 Coastal Service Mirzapur , June 1906 to DG “Argo”: Antares , March 1912 to DLL: Bogados , seized by France in September 1916: Moulin Blanc , July 12, 1920 lost due to stranding |
|
Stolzenfels (2) |
Dixon construction no. 368 |
3086 4750 |
05.1893 07.07.1893 |
December 1904 sale to DG "Argo": America , August 1905 to NDL, October 1908 back to DG "Argo", March 1912 to DLL: Eresos , 1914 "Ottoman Sea Transport Division", sunk by Russian destroyers in the Black Sea on September 5, 1915 |
| Rothenfels | Dixon construction no. 395 |
2993 4600 |
10.1893 April 12, 1894 |
November 28, 1904 Coastal Service Jamalpur , June 1906 to DG "Argo": Andromeda , April 1912 to DLL: Karpathos , 1919 delivered, 1921 Miad of Tenos , July 1922 back to Germany: Hohen-Neuffen , June 1926 to Schuchmann : Westsee II , January 6, 1927 with iron ore cargo south of Bodø lost due to stranding |
| Lindenfels (1) | Dixon construction no. 396 |
2992 4600 |
11.1893 06.13.1894 |
November 28, 1904 Coastal Service Ghazipur , August 1906 to DG “Argo”: Arcturus , February 1912 to DLL: Kalymnos , seized by HMS Savage in the Mediterranean on August 6, 1914 , Polish Prince in 1915, sunk after a collision on July 17, 1915 |
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert: War voyages of German merchant ships , p. 109.
- ↑ Hildebrand: The German Warships , Vol. III, p. 11; both sources name the ship Bogadir
Web links
- The Braunfels - private website
- List of ships of the Deutsche Levante Line ( English )
- Stranding of the Moulin Blanc on wrecksite.eu
- The Trifels with links to the sister ships - private website
- The Stolzenfels (2) with references to the sister ships - private website
literature
- Carl Herbert: War voyages of German merchant ships . Broschek & Co, Hamburg 1934.
- Hans H. Hildebrand / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships: Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford,
- Hans Georg Prager: DDG Hansa - from liner service to special shipping , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1976, ISBN = 3-7822-0105-1.
- Reinhold Thiel: The history of the DDG Hansa. Volume 1: 1881-1918. HM Hauschild, Bremen, 2010, ISBN 3-8975-7477-2 .