Cap Ortegal (ship, 1904)
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The Cap Ortegal of the Hamburg-South American Steamship Company (HSDG) came into service as the fifth Cap steamer of the Hamburg shipping company in 1904 for the express line to Buenos Aires.
The ship built by Blohm & Voss was handed over to France after delivery in 1919 and from 1922 used by Messageries Maritimes as a chambord on the post lines to French Indochina and Madagascar .
In 1932 the ship was scrapped in France.
History of construction and use
The Cap Ortegal , with her sister ship Cap Blanco, completed a month earlier by the Reiherstieg shipyard, formed the second group of Cap steamers on Hamburg-Süd. The two new ships had a much larger superstructure that was higher over the entire length, which clearly identified the two-masted ships with their yellow funnels as passenger ships. Compared to the Cap Verde and the two other Cap steamers of the first series, the newbuildings were almost 10 m longer and were the first Hamburg-Süd seagoing ships with a twin screw drive. They were also the shipping company's first ships with three passenger classes. The service speed of these ships was only slightly increased to 13 knots. However, the Cap Ortegal reached 15.2 knots on a test drive.
The Cap Ortegal was launched on December 30, 1903 under construction number 169 at Blohm & Voss and was delivered on April 19, 1904. The ship was named after the Cabo Ortegal in north-west Spain.
It could accommodate 164 passengers in first class, 96 in second class and 338 in third class. On May 6, 1904, the 7,819 GRT Cap Ortegal started her maiden voyage to Buenos Aires, which her sister ship had already started a month earlier. She remained in this service until 1914, which was operated from 1901 as a joint service with the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (Hapag). In 1906, with the 9467 GRT Cap Vilano and its three sister ships, two of which were provided by Hapag, even larger ships came into service at La Plata. And from 1911, the Cap Finisterre, the first German express steamer, came into service in South America. On November 30, 1912, the Cap Ortegal was able to save the crew members and the three passengers of the sinking British freighter Barcelona (1882, 2232 GRT) in the Bay of Biscay .
When the states got embroiled in the First World War in 1914, Hapag planned in the fight against the North German Lloyd to displace it from its subsidized post lines to East Asia and Australia, and Hamburg-Süd wanted to buy Cap Ortegal and Cap Blanco to sell them as To use Prince Wilhelm or Prince Hubertus in his new East Asia service.
When the war broke out in 1914, however , the Cap Ortegal called Tenerife and remained there until the end of the war. A handover of the ship did not take place, but it was delivered to France in May 1919, since the surrender conditions for the deliveries of the German seagoing ships also applied to the ships that were in neutral ports.
Post war fate
In May 1919, the Cap Ortegal was extradited to France in accordance with the surrender conditions. The French government made them available to the shipping company Chargeurs Réunis, which they used in 1920 for transports to West Africa.
Then the Messageries Maritimes acquired the ship, which had the passenger facility converted and renamed it Chambord . It then offered space for 72 passengers in 1st class, 108 in 2nd class and 42 in 3rd class. It was also possible to transport 488 between deck passengers (soldiers, workers). On May 19, 1922, the Chambord ran out on her first trip on the post line to French Indochina. In addition to this line, it was also used to Madagascar and the other French possessions in the Indian Ocean.
In 1932 the former Cap Ortegal was demolished in La Seyne .
| Fate of the sister ship | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Shipyard | GRT | Launch | in service | further fate |
| Cap Blanco | Reiherstieg BauNr. 412 |
7523 | 11/28/1903 | 03/26/1904 | Delivered to Great Britain on April 2, 1919, burnt out in London on November 23, 1919, the wreck demolished in Hamburg in 1923 |
Re-use of the name
On April 9, 1956, Hamburg-Süd received another Cap Ortegal from Hamburg's Howaldtswerke . It belonged to the second series of Cap motor ships with a refrigerated load compartment for fruit, meat and other refrigerated goods and was used in express service via Rio de Janeiro and Santos to La Plata. Her sister ships Cap Roca , Cap Verde and Cap Finisterre also bore the names of Cap steamers from the period before the First World War. The white painted 154 m long, 8980 GRT ship offered space for twelve passengers and was powered by an 8-cylinder Borsig MAN two-stroke diesel with 7200 hp, which enabled a service speed of 17 knots.
In April 1969 the second Cap Ortegal was sold to Greece (under the Liberian flag) as the first ship in the series and was canceled in Pakistan in 1987.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kludas, Liners, Bd.III, p 43
- ↑ a b c d Kludas: The History of German Passenger Shipping , Volume III, p. 35.
- ↑ a b c d Kludas: The ships of Hamburg-Süd 1871-1951 , p. 52.
- ↑ a b c Rothe: German Ocean Passenger Ships 1896-1918 , p. 98.
- ↑ picture of Cap Ortegal (2)
literature
- 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 , Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg / Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-7979-1875-5 .
- Hans Georg Prager : Blohm & Voss , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft , Herford 1977, ISBN 3-78220-127-2 .
- Claus Rothe: German ocean passenger ships 1896 to 1918 . Steiger Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-921564-80-8 .