Dortmund (ship, 1926)
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The second Dortmund of Hapag was the last ship for the steamboat company German-Australian (DADG) was built before the DADG was acquired by Hapag. The turbine freighter was used on the route to Australia.
After the outbreak of war in 1939, the ship called at the neutral port of Lourenço Marques in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique . In 1943, the Dortmund was confiscated and brought back into service under the Portuguese flag as Lugela . It was not until August 26, 1971 that the former Dortmund was sold to Bilbao for demolition .
history
Like all German shipping companies, the German-Australian Steamship Company (DADG) had lost its fleet of ships during the First World War . Like other shipping companies, the third-largest German pre-war shipping company developed plans to build a new fleet. As early as 1920, the first new building could be put into motion. On June 22, 1921, the DADG then merged with the DDG Kosmos to form the Deutsch-Austral and Kosmos lines. The Hamburg companies with completely different shipping areas continued to operate their own areas under the old shipping company flags and had already made their fleet plans. Until the takeover by Hapag in 1926, a joint type and construction plan could not be drawn up. Nineteen new buildings had been completed for the Australian line by 1926, of which Blohm & Voss alone delivered eleven. For this purpose, three former ships that had been delivered were bought back in 1922/1923 and used again.
The 5,138 GRT Dortmund was the last ship for the DADG launched in 1926 and was a sister ship to four ( Düsseldorf , Essen , Freiburg , Gera ) from the Blohm & Voss shipyard in 1922 and 1923, the turbine freighters supplied by the shipping company preferred drive when rebuilding. In addition, the shipyard also built a 10 m longer type for the shipping company. Since August 1922, DADG has been able to carry out its traditional liner service to Australia again through a joint service agreed with the British shipping company Alfred Holt & Co. and the NDL , while previously only South Africa and the Dutch East Indies were called.
Work for Hapag until 1943
The Dortmund was the second Hapag ship that was named after the city of Dortmund in the eastern Ruhr area. Hapag's first Dortmund was a freight ship of 5065 GRT built in 1901 , which was confiscated by Russia when the war broke out in 1914.
The new Dortmund and her sisters Essen , Freiburg and Gera stayed on the route to Australia. From autumn 1937, the ships were also used in a new joint service with the NDL from the American Gulf ports to New Zealand and back to the US east coast. Unlike the sister ships, however , the Dortmund did not have an enlarged passenger facility.
When the war broke out in 1939, the Dortmund called at the neutral port of Lourenço Marques in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique .
Service under the Portuguese flag
In 1943, the Dortmund was confiscated and brought back into service under the Portuguese flag as Lugela . She was the first turbine ship to fly the Portuguese flag. Most recently it was mainly used between Portugal and South America. It was not until August 26, 1971 that the former Dortmund was sold to Bilbao for demolition .
Fate of the sister ships
| Launched in service |
Surname | tonnage | Construction no | fate |
| 21.09.1921 11.25.1922 |
Dusseldorf | 5146 BRT 8150 dw |
No. 392 | Maiden voyage from Hamburg to Australia, stranded and lost on December 6, 1923 on a journey in the Kosmos service 20 miles from her destination Valparaíso |
| 11/28/1922 02/10/1923 |
eat | 5158 BRT 8130 tdw |
No. 398 | Maiden voyage from Hamburg to Australia, confiscated in Surabaya in 1940 , sunk in Dutch service as Terkoelei on March 17, 1943 in convoy HX 229 by U 631 , 36 dead |
| 27.01.1923 03.24.1923 |
Freiburg | 5165 BRT 8120 tdw |
No. 402 | Maiden voyage from Hamburg to Australia, used by the Kriegsmarine from November 1939, burned out on May 4, 1945 off Eckernförde after being hit by a bomb, damaged ship sunk with gas ammunition in the Skagerrak in July 1946 |
| 14.04.1923 06.02.1923 |
Gera | 5138 BRT 8110 dw |
# 404 | Maiden voyage from Hamburg to Australia, sought refuge in Assab in 1939 , sunk there on April 4, 1941, lifted by the British and served as the Empire Indus , later the South African Bosveld and the Pan-American Pan Ocean until the sinking on April 6, 1958 off Alexandria |
literature
- Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping Volume IV Destruction and Rebirth 1914 to 1930 , Writings of the German Shipping Museum, Volume 21
- Hans Georg Prager: Blohm & Voss Koehler Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1977, ISBN 3-78220-127-2 .
- Otto J. Seiler: Trip to Australia . Verlag ESMittler & Sohn, Herford 1988, ISBN 3-8132-0270-4 .
- Reinhardt Schmelzkopf: German merchant shipping 1919–1939 . Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg, ISBN 3 7979 1847 X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Seiler, Australienfahrt, p. 77.
- ↑ Kludas Vol. IV, p. 183
- ↑ melt head, p. 49.
- ↑ Seiler, Australienfahrt, p. 79.
- ↑ port. Article with information and a picture of Dortmund as Lugela
- ↑ wrecksite on the sinking of the Düsseldorf
- ↑ wrecksite to Terkoelei with three pictures
- ↑ Terkoelei resume the ship on uboat.net
- ↑ Documentation on the ammunition wrecks in the Skagerrak (PDF; 1.7 MB)
- ↑ wrecksite to the Pan Ocean