Cap Verde (ship, 1900)
 The Cap Verde as Raul Soares
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The Cap Verde of the Hamburg-South American Steamship Company (HSDG) came into service as the third Cap steamer of the Hamburg shipping company in 1900.
The ship built in Flensburg was bought back by Hamburg-Süd in May 1922 after delivery in 1919 and put back into service as Madeira . As early as 1925 it was sold to Lloyd Brasileiro , who used it as Raul Soares primarily in the Brazilian coastal service. The ship was last used as a prison before it was scrapped in Rio de Janeiro in November 1965.
History of construction and use
At the turn of the century, the three improved versions of the Asuncion -class, of which the shipping company had received eleven ships from the Blohm & Voss and Reiherstieg shipyards between 1895 and 1899 , ordered. In these ships, which are a little under 5000 GRT, the number of cabin seats had been increased from an initial 24 to 50. The new ships should compete with the best passenger ships to South America and should offer space for 80 first class passengers. The speed of the ships over 5000 GRT for the first time was increased only slightly with a service speed of 12.5 kn. Since the HSDG operated its traffic without subsidies, more powerful machinery appeared uneconomical because, due to the high coal prices in South America, the ships took over all the needs in Europe. In addition, the route of the HSDG was longer than the state-sponsored competition. As a trademark, the new ships were given names beginning with a cap and, unlike the other ships of the company, yellow chimneys.
The first two ships of the Cap class were completed in 1900 as the Cap Frio and Cap Roca by the Reiherstieg shipyard in 1900, followed as the third ship by the Cap Verde built by the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) , which was sold on May 8, 1900 under the Building number 197 was launched in Flensburg and was delivered on July 27, 1900. Until then, HSDG had only had its newbuildings built by British shipyards or the two aforementioned Hamburg shipyards. However, the FSG could not win the Hamburg-Süd as a major customer and delivered only two more ships with the Santa Maria (1907, 7401 GRT) and the Santa Rosa (1912, 3797 GRT) until the start of the war in 1914 .
On August 5, 1900, the Cap Verde began her maiden voyage to Buenos Aires. She remained in this service until 1914, which was operated from 1901 as a joint service with the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (Hapag). The service was reinforced by three additional pairs of ships by 1907. First the 7,500 GRT Cap Blanco and Cap Ortegal , the first twin screw steamers and three-class ships of the HSDG, came into service in 1904 , to which in 1906/1907 the more than 9,000 GRT sister ships Cap Vilano , Cap Arcona and the König built for Hapag Friedrich August and King Wilhelm II followed, each exceeding the large ships of the competition in size and passenger space. However, the Hamburg-Süd also suffered a loss of ship on this route when the Cap Frio , sailing from Bahia to Hamburg in a storm , stranded near the Barra lighthouse and could not be removed again.
When the war broke out in 1914, the Cap Verde was in Hamburg and stayed there as a trailer during the war.
Post war fate
On May 24, 1919, the Cap Verde was delivered to Great Britain under the terms of the German surrender. She should be managed by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company , which took over the ship in October 1919 but did not use it. In March 1921 she was sold to the "Anglo-Yugoslav Transatlantic" Co., which did not put the ship in motion.
On May 20, 1922, Hamburg-Süd bought back her old ship and used it under the new name Madeira . On August 5, 1922, she was used again for the first time to South America. The use of the old ship with the HSDG was short-lived. The Madeira was sold to Lloyd Brasileiro in July 1925 .
The Brazilian shipping company renamed the ship Raul Soares after the Brazilian politician Raul Soares de Moura, who died in 1924 . Since 1917 she has also managed its sister ship Cap Roca under the name Itu . The state-owned sister ship was purchased in 1926 and renamed Almirante Alexandrino . Both ships served in mixed freight and passenger service along the Brazilian coast beyond the Second World War. In addition, they also carried out special trips for various tour operators that lasted up to 60 days.
The ship was last used in 1964 when the ship was used as a floating prison seven months off Santos during the Brazilian military dictatorship . Political prisoners were held on the old ship under unworthy conditions.
In 1965 the former Cap Verde was demolished in Rio de Janeiro.
| Fate of the sister ships | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Shipyard | GRT | Launch | in service | further fate |
| Cap Frio | Reiherstieg BauNr. 404 |
6732 | 11/25/1899 | 2.03.1900 | Stranded August 30, 1908, total loss |
| Cap Roca | Reiherstieg BauNr. 405 |
5786 | April 7, 1900 | 06/26/1900 | Confiscated in Brazil in 1917: Ito , 1926 Almirante Alexandrino , broken up in 1966 |
Re-use of the name
On March 7, 1956, Hamburg-Süd received another Cap Verde from the Flender shipyard in Lübeck . 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 the express service via Rio de Janeiro and Santos to La Plata. Her sister ships Cap Roca , Cap Ortegal and Cap Finisterre also had names of Cap steamers from the time before the First World War. The white-painted 151.80 m long, 8912 GRT ship offered space for twelve passengers and was powered by a 9-cylinder Borsig FIAT two-stroke diesel with 7000 hp, which enabled a service speed of 17 knots.
At the end of 1969 the second Cap Verde was sold to the Heiner Braasch Seereederei, where it was named Hamburger Brücke . In 1972 it was resold to Greece and in 1980 it was demolished in Taiwan.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Kludas: The History of German Passenger Shipping , Volume III, p. 35.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Kludas: The ships of Hamburg-Süd 1871-1951 , p. 75.
- ^ Kludas: Hamburg-Süd , p. 66.
- ↑ Kludas: Hamburg-Süd , p. 69.
- ↑ Kludas: Passenger Shipping , Volume III, p. 43.
- ↑ Kludas: Passenger Shipping , Volume III, p. 94.
- ↑ Kludas: Passenger Shipping , Volume III, p. 39.
- ↑ Kludas: Passenger Shipping, Volume IV, p. 112.
- ↑ picture of the Cap Verde (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 History of German Passenger Shipping. Volume 4: Destruction and rebirth 1914 to 1930. Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-8225-0047-X ( writings of the German Maritime Museum 21).
- 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 3-7822-0127-2 .
- Claus Rothe: German ocean passenger ships 1896 to 1918 . Steiger Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-921564-80-8 .