Cap Arcona (ship, 1907)
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The Cap Arcona was built in 1907 as a scheduled passenger ship for the Hamburg South American Steamship Company (HSDG) and was the last of four ships of this type for the joint service with Hapag to South America since 1901 . The ship was a sister ship to the Cap Vilano, built in 1906 for Hamburg Süd . Both shipping companies use two ships of this type each.
Under the name Angers , the ship operated as a mail steamer for the French Messageries Maritimes between 1922 and 1938, mainly on the line from Marseille to Haïphong . In 1939 the former Cap Arcona in southern France was demolished.
history
With the construction of the Cap Arcona in 1907, the Hamburg-Süd received a sister ship to the Cap Vilano, which was commissioned the previous year . Since the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft had two more ships of this type built for the joint service of the two shipping companies with King Friedrich August and King Wilhelm II , the Cap Arcona with 9,832 GRT was the last ship in this series. On board were 244 first class passengers, 110 III. Class and 404 passengers in the tween deck. From 1907 to 1911 she was the largest ship of the HSDG.
The launch took place on April 25, 1907 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg and on September 15, she started her maiden voyage from Hamburg to the Río de la Plata . In 1914 it was planned to sell the two Hamburg-Süd ships to HAPAG, which were to come into service there with the names of the princes . On August 4th of that year, however , the Cap Arcona was launched due to the outbreak of the First World War in Villagarcía de Arosa , Spain.
In French service
Five years later, on May 31, 1919, the Cap Arcona was handed over to the French government. Initially it was used to repatriate troops from the various theaters of war. In 1921 she got under way under the name Angers for Messageries Maritimes . The renewed passenger facility offered 151 passengers in the first class, 142 in the second class and 80 in the III. Great place. In addition, 450 passengers could be transported in the tween deck. On April 7, 1922, she drove for the first time on the French post line from Marseille to Saïgon and Haïphong. After the conversion, the ship was mainly used on the Marseille - East Asia route, occasionally the Angers also went to the French possessions in the Indian Ocean off East Africa. Her sister ship Cap Vilano had also been in the service of the French shipping company as Général Metzinger since 1924 .
The Angers was launched from 1933 to 1936 , but was then used again in Indochina . In September 1938 they were sold for scrapping. During this work it burned out completely on April 24, 1939.
literature
- Noel RP Bonsor: North Atlantic Seaway. An illustrated History of the Passenger Services linking the old World with the new. Volume 3. Enlarged and completely revised edition. Brookside Publications, St. Brelade 1979, ISBN 0-905824-02-4 , p. 1315.
- Carl Herbert: War voyages of German merchant ships. Broschek & Co, Hamburg 1934.
- Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping. Volume 3: Rapid growth 1900 to 1914. Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-8225-0039-9 ( writings of the German Maritime Museum 20).
- Arnold Kludas : The ships of Hamburg-Süd. 1871-1951. Gerhard Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg et al. 1976, ISBN 3-7979-1875-5 .
- Claus Rothe: German ocean passenger ships. 1896 to 1918 . Steiger Verlag, Moers 1986, ISBN 3-921564-80-8 .
Web links
- L'ANGERS ex Cap Arcona French website, accessed on May 23, 2013
Footnotes
- ↑ History of Cap Arcona with postcard. Retrieved May 23, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Kludas, Vol. III, p. 38.
- ↑ Presentation of the Angers' mission . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 28, 2007 ; Retrieved on May 23, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
