Cap Anamur (ship, 1979)

This article deals with the ship Cap Anamur from 1979. For the successor ship of the same name see Cap Anamur (Schiff, 1983) .

Cap Anamur

Ship data Ship type Cargo ship Owner Partner shipping company M / S Cap Anamur Shipping company Bauer and Hauschildt, Hamburg Shipyard Watanabe Shipbuilding, Hakata, Japan Build number 190 Launch April 19, 1977 Commissioning July 26, 1979 Whereabouts Canceled from July 31, 1999 in Alang

Ship dimensions and crew length 118.70 m ( Lüa ) 108.00 m ( Lpp ) width 17.00 m Side height 9.00 m Draft Max. 7.13 m measurement 5346.67 GRT 3090.71 NRT

Machine system machine 1 × Mitsubishi / Kobe Diesel Machine performance 4,560 kW (6,200 hp) Top speed 17.5 kn (32 km / h) propeller 1

Transport capacities Load capacity 6,600 dw Container 174 TEU Connections for refrigerated containers 20th Volume 9,839 m³

Others Classifications Germanischer Lloyd GL +100 A4 E, reinforced with heavy cargo, set up for container transport Registration numbers IMO 7611717

The multi-purpose general cargo ship Cap Anamur of the Hamburg shipping company Bauer & Hauschildt became known through its travels as a refugee aid ship. Due to the great media echo around the ship, the aid organization Ein Schiff für Vietnam changed its name to Cap Anamur / German emergency doctors from 1982 onwards .

technical description

The Cap Anamur was a conventional medium-sized multipurpose dry cargo ship with a deckhouse arranged aft and its own cargo gear . There were two for the transport of ISO containers and heavy decorated holds with steerage and a total volume of 9839 m³. The load capacity was 6600 tons.

The ship was powered by a Mitsubishi / Kobe UEC-52 / 105D diesel engine with 4560 kW at 175 revolutions per minute and a propeller. The electrical supply was ensured by a total of three Daihatsu auxiliary and emergency diesels.

history

Bronze plaque in Hamburg with thanks for the Vietnamese refugees

The ship was commissioned together with the sister ship Cap Andreas by the Hamburg shipping company Hamburg-Süd from the Japanese shipyard Watanabe Shipbuilding and launched on April 19, 1977 as hull number 1902. After completion, the new building was not accepted due to the disparity between measurement and load-bearing capacity and after almost two years of lay-in, the shipping company Seavoss Schifffahrt from Elmshorn bought the ship at auction in 1979 for the equivalent of 4.15 million DM and it was managed by Küstenschiffahrt Bauer & Hauschild from Hamburg.

A Ship for Vietnam Aid Committee chartered the ship in 1979, had it converted into a hospital ship and began on August 13, 1979 under the command of Captain Klaus Buck with the rescue of so-called boat people in the China Sea. In the course of the following years, thousands of mostly Vietnamese refugees were rescued and provided with medicine and food on board the ship. As a result, a political tug-of-war developed over the acceptance of the refugees in the Federal Republic.

In 1987 the ship's career as a hospital ship ended. The ship, named after the cape south of Anamur , was renamed Yakoyo Carrier in 1991 , two years later the name was changed to Yu Men . After another name change, in 1998 in Sangeorge , the demolition in Alang took place on July 31, 1999 .

literature

• Dietrich Rath: The German Merchant Fleet: Die Deutsche Handelsflotte 1983/84 . Ed .: Erik Blumenfeld. Seehafen Verlag, Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-87743-402-9 .

Web links

Commons : Cap Anamur  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sangeorge , In: Maritime Hotline 6 + 7 99, August 1999, p. 14.