The ship type was designed in the mid-1970s as a larger and faster further development for line travel based on the very successful German Liberty type. The ships of the series were designed as universal multi-purpose or semi-container ships for long voyages. In order to do justice to the changed framework conditions, the Bremen Progress was adapted to the container transport with a higher degree of deck opening and the ships were designed for a slightly higher load capacity and speed than their predecessor. The Bremen Progress type was ordered in three units from the British shipping company Ellerman Lines from London. Another unit with a slightly modified loading gear went to the Herm shipping company. Dauelsberg in Bremen and three ships further modified for timber and log travel to Alfred C. Toepfer from Hamburg. The construction of twelve further units for the Indonesian shipping company D Jakarta Lloyd PN, whose order would have been funded by a 20 percent capital aid from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation, was negotiated but not converted into a construction contract.,
Technical details
The Bremen Progress ships have superstructures arranged aft and five cargo holds with an intermediate deck . The holds were equipped with removable cell guides . All hatch covers were supplied by the manufacturer McGregor . The weather deck hatch covers in rooms 2 to 4 are of the single-pull type, the hatch on the forecastle as a folding hatch cover and the intermediate deck hatches as a hinged / folding cover in a smooth deck design. Three electric ship's slewing cranes from the manufacturer Orenstein & Koppel , each with a capacity of 5 / 12.5 tonnes for the three front hatches and five loading booms with a lifting capacity of 5/10, 13/30 and 20/60 tonnes, were installed as their own loading gear . The Dauelsber and Toepfer ships did not receive cranes, but conventional loading gear with twelve loading booms from 5 to 100 tons capacity (Dauelsberg) or four loading booms from 22 to 40 tons capacity (Toepfer).
The main engine was a MAN K6Z 70/120 E two-stroke diesel engine with an output of 8796 hp that was built at the shipyard and acted directly on the fixed pitch propeller. There was no bow thruster available to support the berthing and casting off maneuvers.
The ships
Type Bremen Progress
Ship name
Build number
IMO number
delivery
Client
Later names and whereabouts
City of Winchester
1009
7515212
1976
Ellerman Lines, London
1981 Arc Odysseus , 1989 Nortween Slevik , 1990 Slevik , 1993 Lady Sharon , 1997 Harmony Dove , arrived in Chittagong on May 26, 2001 for demolition
City of York
1010
7515224
1976
Ellerman Lines, London
1986 Vicman , 1988 Joy , 1991 Emerald , 1995 Felicita , arrived in Alang on December 9, 1998 for demolition
City of Canterbury
1011
7515236
1976
Ellerman Lines, London
1981 Arc Aeolus , 1989 Nortween Sletter , 1990 Hibiscus Trader , 1990 Sletter , 1992 Lady Juliet , arrived in Chittagong on November 9, 2000 for demolition
Flavia
1012
7606011
February 1977
Herm. Dauelsberg, Bremen
1987 Flavia I , 1989 Her An , 1993 Lugano Venture , 1995 Her An , 1998 Global Pride , 2002 for the demolition to Alang
Florence
1017
7614965
October 16, 1977
Alfred C. Toepfer, Hamburg
2002 Trinity , 2008 Diamond S. , 2009 demolition in Turkey
William Shakespeare
1018
7614977
January 14, 1978
Alfred C. Toepfer, Hamburg
1996 at position 14.29 ° N; 059.22 ° E down
Toledo
1019
7700075
October 15, 1978
Alfred C. Toepfer, Hamburg
Water ingress on February 20, 1990 on the voyage from New Brunswick to Fredericia with a cargo of potash, towed by the salvage tug Simson and beached in Gerrans Bay in Cornwall on March 3, later lifted and sunk on April 28, 1990
literature
“City of Winchester”, “City of York” and “City of Canterbury” - motor cargo ships of the “Bremen Progress” type . In: Hansa . Vol. 113, No.November 22 , 1976, p.1952-1954 .
Gert Uwe Detlefsen, Hans Jürgen Abert: The history and fate of German series freighters . Volume 1 - The development, German series after 1945 The fate of the Hansa-A-Freighter. Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen, Bad Zwischenahn 1998, ISBN 3-928473-41-7 .
