Bruges (ship, 1904)
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The cargo ship Bruges of the Belgian shipping company Armement Deppe was built in 1904 as Kybfels at Joh. C. Tecklenborg for the Deutsche Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft Hansa . The ship was one of six ex-DDG "Hansa" ships that the Belgian shipping company put into service in 1921.
The ship, in service in South America, was sunk off the American coast on July 9, 1940 on its return trip to Europe by the German auxiliary cruiser Thor .
History of the ship
The ship was built under the hull number 198 as Kybfels at the Geestemünder Tecklenborg shipyard, where it was launched on August 15, 1904. The ship, 122.2 m long and 15.9 m wide, was delivered to the Bremen shipping company on October 1st, seven weeks after the only sister ship, Crostafels . Three boilers produced steam for the 4-cylinder quadruple expansion machine, which developed up to 2750 PSi and enabled a speed of 11 knots (kn) via one screw . The Kybfels and her sister Crostafels were the last ships with less than 8000 dwt that sailed for the lines of the shipping company in the Middle East and East India. Both ships were at home in 1914 and were used in the ore and coal trade in the North and Baltic Seas during the First World War . The two ships were delivered to Great Britain in March 1919 on the basis of the surrender conditions.
Under the Belgian flag
In November 1921, the shipping company Armement Deppe in Antwerp acquired the Kybfels with five other ships delivered by Hansa and put them into service as Bruges . The Bruges was used with the other ex- "Hansa" ships mainly in the South America service.
On July 9, 1940, the Bruges was sunk with a cargo of wheat on the way from Montevideo to Hull about 80 nautical miles southwest of Bissau at the position 10 ° 59 'N / 23 ° 54' W by the German auxiliary cruiser Thor .
Post-war history of the Crostafels
The sister ship Crostafels , which was also delivered , was bought by the “Brook Steamship” in 1921 and put into service as Brookfield . The ship was chartered to DDG Hansa and bought back on September 15, 1923 by the Bremer Reederei and used again under its original name. In the course of the global economic crisis, the Crostafels was launched in Bremen in April 1930 and sold in December 1932 to AG Weser for demolition, which began in October 1933.
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literature
- Jürgen Rohwer , Gerhard Hümmelchen : Chronicle of the Naval War 1939-1945 , Manfred Pawlak VerlagsGmbH (Herrsching 1968), ISBN 3-88199-0097