Columbus New Zealand class
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The ship class , built in 1971 as the Columbus New Zealand class , was a series of turbine ships operated by the Hamburg Süd shipping company . The third generation container ships were also the world's largest reefer container ships at the time .
history
The series of this ship class consisted of three units of a ship type of the Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft shipyards in Kiel and Hamburg , which were put into service in 1971. The shipyard was the German shipyard in Finkenwerder. The trio of ships was appointed in March 1969 and transferred to the companies Rudolf A. Oetker KG and Dr. August Oetker Schiffahrts & Beteiligungsgesellschaft. The first ship of the class was the Columbus New Zealand , which was delivered on April 17, 1971 . From the beginning of June 1971 the ships served the east coast-North America-Australia / New Zealand service of the Hamburg-Süd subsidiary Columbus-Linie. The service was able to record an increasing volume of cargo, whereupon the Columbus Victoria was integrated into the service from the beginning of 1977 . After the new motorization, the three units of the class were registered with the shipping company Hamburg-Süd and transferred to the Merchant Maritime Corporation in Monrovia for the final years of operation and flagged out to Liberia . What is unusual for a ship's biography is that the Hamburg shipping company operated the three ships exclusively in the traditional Australia / New Zealand service until they were scrapped in late 1998 / summer 1999.
technology
The most remarkable detail of the ships was their largest refrigerated container capacity when they were built. 454 Porthole refrigerated container units could be stowed in the holds. The temperature of the containers was controlled via an on-board cooling air system. In addition, a further 99 TEU of refrigerated containers with so-called electrically operated clip-on units could be transported on deck. The ships were equipped with on-board gantry cranes for cargo handling.
The steam turbine ships built before the 1973 oil crisis were converted to Japanese Kawasaki-MAN 2S.C.SA. diesel engines in 1986 by General Electric / AGWeser at the HDW shipyard due to the relatively high fuel costs . During this extensive renovation, the ships received passenger facilities for twelve people.
The ships
| Columbus New Zealand class | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building name | Construction no. | IMO number | Keel laying, launching, delivery |
Renaming and whereabouts |
| Columbus New Zealand | 15th | 7039610 | - November 27, 1970 April 17, 1971 |
On September 7, 1998, Bhagawati Ship Breaking canceled in Alang |
| Columbus Australia | 16 | 7052947 | - March 9, 1971 July 20, 1971 |
From June 18, 1999, canceled at Jiangyin Shipbreaking Company in Jiangjin |
| Columbus America | 17th | 7109374 | - May 25, 1971 October 15, 1971 |
Canceled from Jiangyin Shipbreaking Company in Jiangjin on June 23, 1999 |
| Data: Miramar Ship Index | ||||
literature
- Linde, H .: Three New Hamburg-Süd Containerships . In: Erik Blumenfeld (ed.): Ship and port . Vol. 23, No. 5 . Seehafenverlag, May 1971, p. 355-359 .
- Linde, H .: Transport of refrigerated cargo in containers on board container ships . In: Yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society . Vol. 65, 1971, pp. 197-223 .
Web links
- Website about the ships ( Memento from January 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Tales of a Captain ( Memento from July 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Miramar homepage (English)