Coblenz (ship)
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The steamship Coblenz was built by Blohm & Voss for the Brazil Service of North German Lloyd (NDL), Bremen.
Her sister ships were delivered by the Tecklenborg shipyard and the Seebeck shipyard , both in Geestemünde .
South American service of the NDL
The South American service of the NDL was opened on March 1, 1876 by the Hohenzollern of the Strasbourg class appointed for this service . In 1878 the service was split into a Brazilian and a La Plata service because of Argentine quarantine regulations that hindered continuous traffic. The Mark delivered in 1893 and its sister ships were the first ships of the NDL for the Brazilian service, which were then followed by the four ships of the Crefeld class in 1895. The Coblenz and her sisters were the last ships of the NDL (1897/98) until the 1930s that were specially procured by the NDL for this trade area.
Use at the NDL
The Coblenz began her maiden voyage from Bremen to Santos in May 1897 . On September 1, 1900, there was a first trip from Bremen to Baltimore .
In 1903 she was deployed from Bremen via Antwerp , A Coruña , Villagarcía or Vigo to Havana , Cienfuegos and Manzanillo . All three sister ships used this line at times.
In 1907 the Coblenz was relocated to Australia, after the passenger facilities had been rebuilt, in order to operate the Austral-Japan service from Sydney via Brisbane , Rabaul , Friedrich-Wilhelm-Hafen , Maron ( Hermit Islands - every 2nd year) together with the sister ships Prinz Waldemar and Prinz Sigismund Trip), Yap , Angaur (every 2nd trip), Manila , Hong Kong to Kobe . It was a better match than any of the previously used ships for the two “Prinzen” and thus provided the service of an imperial mail steamer .
At the beginning of the First World War , the Coblenz was in Manila and was launched.
The ship under the US flag
In 1917 the Coblenz was confiscated and renamed Sachem as a transporter.
On February 6, 1920, the Pacific Mail acquired the ship for $ 400,000 and named it Cuba . Initially, she drove passengers and freight between San Francisco , California, and Havana , Cuba, and later only as far as Cristóbal .
On September 9, 1923, she was stranded on a reef near San Miguel Island in the Santa Barbara Channel , California, in thick fog. Everyone on board could be saved.
On the same day, nine United States Navy destroyers ran aground nearby. This incident became known as the ship disaster at Honda Point .
Sister ship Mainz
The Mainz (3,204 GRT) ran on May 15, 1897 at the Tecklenborg shipyard as construction no. 151 from the stack and was delivered to the NDL on July 8, 1897.
In August she left for her maiden voyage to Brazil. In August 1900 she drove for the first time from Bremen to Baltimore and on November 10, 1900 for the first time from Bremen to New York. In 1903 the Mainz went to Cuba like the Coblenz . Basically, Mainz went to South America.
With the Mainz under Captain Max Dietrich (1870-1916) an expedition was undertaken in the summer of 1910 to Spitsbergen to explore a possible pole flight of a zeppelin . Participants in the trip were Prince Heinrich of Prussia , Ferdinand von Zeppelin and the polar explorer Erich von Drygalski , as well as Professors Hugo Hergesell and Adolf Miethe . Among other things, the Wellmann hangar in Danskøya was inspected . On site, the participants of the trip came to the opinion that the pole could not be reached with a zeppelin.
In 1912 it was sold to Antwerp and renamed Dieppe . In 1928 the former Mainz was canceled.
Sister ship Trier
The Trier (3,168 GRT) ran on June 5, 1898 at the Seebeck shipyard as construction no. 122 from the stack and was delivered to the NDL on June 15, 1898.
In June 1898 she left for her maiden voyage to Brazil. On October 10, 1900, it ran from Bremen to New York for the first time.
On July 6, 1902, she was stranded on a trip to Cuba off La Coruña and had to be abandoned.
literature
- Carl Herbert: War voyages of German merchant ships. Broschek & Co, Hamburg 1934.
- Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping. Volume 2: Expansion on all seas 1890 to 1900. Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-8225-0038-0 ( writings of the German Maritime Museum 19).
- Arnold Kludas: The ships of the North German Lloyd. Volume 1: 1857 to 1919. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1991, ISBN 3-7822-0524-3 .
- A. Miethe , H. Hergesell : With Zeppelin to Spitzbergen. Pictures from the study trip of the German arctic zeppelin expedition. German publishing house Bong, Berlin 1911.
- Christine Reinke-Kunze: History of the Reichs-Post-Steamers. Connection between the continents 1886–1914. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1994, ISBN 3-7822-0618-5 .
- Otto J. Seiler: Trip to Australia. Verlag ES Mittler & Sohn, Herford 1988, ISBN 3-8132-0270-4 .