Drachenfels (ship, 1900)
 The Drachenfels
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The second Drachenfels of the Deutsche Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft "Hansa" (DDG "Hansa"), put into service in 1900, was a single ship and the first ship of the shipping company of over 7000 GRT.
In 1914 the Drachenfels sought refuge in Sabang in the neutral Dutch East Indies , but had to be extradited to Great Britain in 1919. The shipping company Ellerman & Bucknall acquired the ship in 1920 and used it as a Kasenga . In 1929 it was sold to Italy. The former Drachenfels , renamed Adelia , was demolished in September 1933.
History of the ship
The second Drachenfels of the DDG "Hansa" was from 1900 to 1911 the largest ship of the Bremen freight shipping company. The ship, which was put into service immediately after the turn of the century, at 7217 GRT, was considerably larger than the standard ships of the shipping company with their size of approx. 5500 GRT and especially the Weissenfels ordered at the same time of only 3926 GRT.
The Drachenfels shipyard was the Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle, which had been one of the first suppliers with the first Ehrenfels and which became the shipping company's main supplier from 1895. From 1895 to 1900 this shipyard delivered ten of 16 newbuildings, starting with the Goldenfels up to the Wartburg . The shipyard also supplied other German shipping companies. The ship built directly in front of the Drachenfels was the Hanover of the NDL .
The 139 m long Drachenfels was powered by a quadruple expansion machine with 2700 hp and could run at up to 11.5 kn . She was the first ship of the DDG "Hansa" with over 10,000 t deadweight. It was not until 1911 that the shipping company procured two ships of the same size, the second Goldenfels , the shipping company's last newbuild ordered in Great Britain, and the OJD Ahlers built by AG Weser .
When the First World War broke out , the Drachenfels was in the Dutch East Indies and started at Sabang, where it remained for the next five years.
Under other flags
Since the German merchant ships remaining in neutral ports had to be delivered after the surrender conditions, the ship passed into British ownership on November 11, 1919 and was initially managed by British India Steam Navigation . The shipping company Ellerman & Bucknall acquired the ship in 1920 and used it as a Kasenga . It was named after a cargo ship of the shipping company built by Armstrong in 1907 , which was sunk by a submarine in 1917.
In May 1929 it was sold to INSA (Industria Navali Societa Anonima) in Genoa in Italy . The former Drachenfels , renamed Adelia , was demolished in September 1933.
More ships with the name Drachenfels
The first Drachenfels , named after the Drachenfels Castle (Siebengebirge) , was one of the three steamers that were already under construction in 1882 and were the first ships to be purchased in Great Britain for the newly founded DDG "Hansa".
| Surname | Shipyard | GRT tdw |
Launched in service |
Another fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drachenfels (1) |
Sunderland Shb. Construction no. 110 |
2251 3250 |
01.1882 03/18/1882 |
Acquired in February 1882 as the company's second ship, new boiler system installed in Helsingør in August 1892 , sold to Norway in 1898: Kvarven stranded off Japan on June 14, 1905 |
| Drachenfels (3) |
Howaldt building no. 594 |
6342 9479 |
06.1921 13.09.1921 |
Sturmfels- class (11 sister ships), self-sunk in 1939, refuge in Mormugoa , March 9, 1943 |
| Drachenfels (4) |
AG Weser Building No. 1269 |
5781 10,312 |
24.02.1953 04.14.1953 |
Ehrenfels Class (4 sister ships), 1972 Tharaleos , 1981 Intra Traveler , 1982 demolished in Pakistan |
| Drachenfels (5) |
Helsingør Værft building no. 408 |
5991 6904 |
February 9, 1976 July 1, 1976 |
ex Dana Gloria , chartered from DFDS from September 1976 to 1978 |
Web links
literature
- Hans Georg Prager: DDG Hansa: From liner service to special shipping. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford, 1976, ISBN 3-7822-0105-1
- Reinhold Thiel: The history of the DDG Hansa. Volume 1: 1881-1918. HM Hauschild, Bremen, 2010, ISBN 3-8975-7477-2