Bremerhaven (ship, 1920)
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The second Bremerhaven of Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) in Bremen was the shipping company's second new building after the First World War. Together with the sister ship Vegesack , which had been delivered three months earlier, the shipping company's Brazil service was resumed with these small steamers. Their size resulted from the surrender conditions.
In 1928 the Bremerhaven was converted for an island service by the NDL of East Asia, for which the ship received a passenger facility. In 1929 she ran from Hong Kong to Rabaul for the first time . In late 1936, the ship was flagged out to Hong Kong and renamed Island Trader . In 1938 she was withdrawn from service and used in the Chinese coastal voyage. In September 1939, the ship, renamed Bremerhaven , was launched in Dairen and sold to Japan in August 1940.
Under her new name Teiun Maru , she was lost on January 1, 1942 west of Luzon after a mine hit.
history
In 1920, the Bremer Vulkan with the small freighters Vegesack and Bremerhaven delivered the first newbuildings for the reconstruction of the North German Lloyd after the delivery of all larger seagoing ships as a result of the lost war. Their size of just under 1,600 GRT resulted from the surrender conditions that did not allow the construction of larger ships for German shipping companies.
The Bremerhaven , manufactured under construction number 667 at Bremer Vulkan, was launched on November 9, 1920 and was delivered to the NDL a month later. The 1,566 GRT, a little over 75 meters long ship, like its sister ship Vegesack, previously carried out its maiden voyage to Brazil. The name of the port city at the mouth of the Weser had previously been borne by a paddle steamer of 117 GRT at the NDL, which was used from 1872 to 1893.
With the influx of larger ships through newbuildings and the repurchase of delivered ships, the two small freighters were handed over to the subsidiary “Dampfschiffs-Rhederei Horn AG” in Lübeck in 1922 . When this company was fully integrated into the NDL at the end of 1925, both steamers came back to the NDL and were registered again in Bremen in the summer of 1926.
In 1928, German producers in the former South Sea regions were looking for a shipper for their products and the NDL was looking for a new South Sea line that was to be connected to the East Asia line in Hong Kong. The Bremerhaven was rebuilt for this purpose, received a larger deckhouse and a facility for seven European cabin passengers and 15 local passengers (3rd class). After being transferred to East Asia, the ship made its first voyage from Hong Kong to Rabaul in February 1929 , where it arrived on March 7th. Madang , Peterhafen ( Vitu Islands ) and Calili were also called on the first voyage . Later followed Vunapope , Takubar , Duke of York Islands , Alexis harbor and Nagada Harbor . The line was so well received and the NDL sent a second ship with the Friderun . In November 1932, she began her first voyage from Hong Kong to the South Seas.
On November 26, 1932, the Bremerhaven ran into a Chinese junk on the return voyage from New Guinea about 60 nautical miles from Hong Kong at night in difficult seas and poor visibility and tore off its superstructure. Of the 34 Chinese on board, eight went overboard. Seven could be saved. The Bremerhaven towed the rammed ship.
The expansion of its South Seas service planned by the NDL in 1934 with a new direct line Australia-South Seas-Hong Kong-China aroused considerable resistance from Australian competition. Australia extended the ban on coastal traffic for foreign shipping companies to include the Australian League of Nations mandates and only allowed Friderun and Bremerhaven to call at a port in New Guinea. The fact that Lloyd accepted the Australian measures led to the disappointment of the shippers and additional losses.
The NDL believed that it could bypass the call bans by flagging Bremerhaven out from 1936. The ship registered in Hong Kong for a newly established shipping company and renamed the Island Trader . The Chinese garrison was replaced by Melanesians among white officers. In April 1938, the NDL finally moved the ship to China and renamed it Bremerhaven . Later she was used in the shuttle service between Dairen ( Manchukuo ) and Osaka . On September 6, 1939, she arrived in Dairen under Captain Claas Albers from Osaka and was hung up.
It was sold to Japan on August 6, 1940.
The End as Teiun Maru
Under state control, the ship was used from January 1941 and assigned to the transporter fleet as Teiun Maru . She was one of the ships that transported the Japanese attackers to the Philippines. With over 200 personnel for the construction of airfields, two landing craft and military equipment , she left Currimao for Damortis on the Gulf of Lingayen on December 31, 1941 .
On January 1, 1942, she received a mine hit in a lock laid by the Japanese themselves in the Gulf of Lingayen and sank within 3 minutes. The total charge 134 and man were lost when the ship at the position of 16 ° 11 '0 " N , 120 ° 18' 0" O sank.
Fate of the sister ship
| Launched in service |
Surname | tonnage | Construction no. | fate |
| 08/30/1920 09/25/1920 |
Vegesack | 1566 BRT 2435 dw |
664 | 1920 Brasiliendienst, 1922 Horn AG, 1926 NDL, in the Argo.Dienst, 1932 sale to the Soviet Union: Ola , Vladivostok, 1960 no longer available |
literature
- Arnold Kludas : The ships of the German Africa Lines 1880 to 1945 . Verlag Gerhard Stalling, 1975, ISBN 3-7979-1867-4 .
- Arnold Kludas: The ships of the North German Lloyd 1920 to 1970 . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 1992, ISBN 3-7822-0534-0 .
- 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.
- Reinhardt Schmelzkopf: German merchant shipping 1919–1939 . Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg, ISBN 3 7979 1847 X .