Stolzenfels (ship, 1882)
 The first Stolzenfels
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The Stolzenfels was the first ship of the newly founded Bremen shipping company Deutsche Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft Hansa (DDG "Hansa"). The ship, launched at the shipyard of Charles Mitchell & Co. in Newcastle upon Tyne on December 12, 1881 as a speculative building, was bought by the Bremen shipping company in January 1882.
The Stolzenfels was also the shipping company's first ship to be lost in service. On May 10, 1884, she was rammed in Saigon by the British steamer Canton and sank.
History of the ship
The committee for founding the DDG "Hansa" commissioned the first director Oltmann Johann Dietrich Ahlers and the engineer Karl Ihlder to buy some large steamers in Great Britain. At the beginning of 1882 they bought three steamers that were being built by various shipyards. From February to April 1882 they joined the newly founded shipping company.
The first ship was the Stolzenfels , named after Stolzenfels Castle , which the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV had built as a summer residence in Koblenz .
The ship was launched as a speculative construction on December 12, 1881 at the Charles Mitchell shipyard in Newcastle. It was the only ship that the shipyard, which was later taken over by the armaments company Armstrong, delivered to DDG Hansa. The ship, measured at 2248 BRT and 1734 NRT, was 86.94 m long and up to 11.70 m wide and had a carrying capacity of 3500 tdw. A 2-cylinder compound steam engine of 1100 PSi built in Wallsend gave it a speed of 10 kn . The ship was rigged as a brigantine for emergencies.
Bought in January 1882 in the equipment, the Stolzenfels began on February 7, 1882 from Newcastle on her first trip to Singapore .
However, the Stolzenfels' service life was short-lived. On May 10, 1884, she was rammed in Saigon with a cargo of rice for Hong Kong at anchor by the British steamer Canton (1737 BRT, 1880 Wigham Richardson) of the shipping company JC Jaques & Co, London, and sank. In August 1884 the wreck was abandoned. The Canton had caused a similar accident in Newcastle (New South Wales) in 1881 .
Fate of further purchases
With the first Drachenfels , named after Drachenfels Castle (Siebengebirge) and the first Ehrenfels , named after Ehrenfels Castle (Hesse) , DDG Hansa put two more steamers into service, which are already under construction at Sunderland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd . in Sunderland and Wigham Richardson & Co. in Newcastle-on-Tyne.
The other ship requirements of the new shipping company were covered by nine newbuildings from 736 to 1566 GRT at German shipyards, which were put into service between 1882 and 1884.
| Surname | Shipyard | GRT tdw |
Launched in service |
further fate |
| Drachenfels |
Sunderland ShB. Construction no. 110 |
2251 3250 |
01.1882 03/18/1882 |
New boiler system installed in Helsingør on August 18 , 1892 , sold to Norway in 1898: Kvarven stranded off Japan on June 14, 1905 |
| Ehrenfels |
Wigham Richardson building no. 138 |
2315 3450 |
03.1882 04/18/1882 |
1885 auxiliary steamer during the occupation of German East Africa , 1886 new triple expansion engine , extended to AG Weser in October 1894 (2672 GRT), sold to Hamburg in 1898: St. Georg , stranded in September 1900, sold as wreckage in the USA / converted into a combined ship: Enterprise , launched in 1926 after engine failure / only canceled in Japan in 1937 |
Other ships with the name Stolzenfels
| Surname | Shipyard | GRT tdw |
Launched in service |
further fate |
| Stolzenfels (2) |
Dixon construction no. 368 |
3092 4750 |
05.1893 07.07.1893 |
2 sister ships, at the end of 1904 sold to the steamship company Argo : Amerika , August 1905 to Norddeutscher Lloyd , August 1908 again Argo, March 1912 to the German Levante Line : Eresos , sunk by Russian destroyers Bystrii and Pronzitelny on September 5, 1915 |
| Stolzenfels (3) |
Flensburg building no. 255 |
5566 8780 |
01/6/1906 03/02/1906 |
Rheinfels class (7 sister ships), confiscated in Sydney in 1914: Dongarra , 1925: British Kotka , 1927 Benvrackie , 1931 demolished in Japan |
| Stolzenfels (4) |
Tecklenborg building no. 269 |
7509 11.104 |
11/25/1915 11/11/1916 |
ex Altenfels / Altenfels class (6 sister ships), delivered to Great Britain in 1919, Eastern Prince in 1920 , buyback in 1926: Stolzenfels , September 1939 Blockbreaker XII / 12 , March 20, 1941 sunk by torpedo aircraft near Schiermonnikoog |
| Stolzenfels (5) |
Atlas-Werke building no. 395 |
3905 4115 |
09/27/1957 12/18/1957 |
Building contract accepted / 2 sister ships ( ST class ), 1968 sold to India, 1985 demolition |
| Stolzenfels (6) |
Flenderwerke building no. 586 |
10,586 14,436 |
January 7, 1971 April 8, 1971 |
"ST" class (9 sister ships), sold in 1980, demolished in 1987 |
Individual evidence
Web links
- Stolzenfels (1) , accessed on May 14, 2014.
- Stolzenfels 1882 , accessed on May 14, 2014.
- Accident Report, The Times 2 May 1884, page 8 , accessed May 14, 2014.
- Drachenfels (1) , accessed on May 14, 2014.
- Ehrenfels (1) , accessed May 14, 2014.
literature
- Hans Georg Prager: DDG Hansa - From liner service to special shipping , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford (1976), ISBN 3-7822-0105-1