Earl of Forfar (ship)
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The Earl of Forfar was a British cargo ship that sank after an ammunition explosion in Arkhangelsk in 1916 , but continued to sail under different names and flags until 1931 after being raised and repaired.
Construction and technical data
The ship was on 14 April 1910, the hull number 439 at the shipyard of Russell & Co. in Port Glasgow on the Clyde in Scotland for the shipping company Marshall & Dobbie from Glasgow from the stack and was given the name Earl of Forfar . It was 117.3 m long and 15.1 m wide, had a draft of 8 m and was measured at 4453 GRT . It had a triple expansion steam engine from Rankin & Blackmore of Greenock , which gave the ship a speed of 10 knots via one screw . The ship had two masts with loading gear , one fore and one aft, and a funnel amidships.
history
The Earl of Forfar went on her maiden voyage in July 1910 for the shipping company Marshall & WL Dobbie (from 1914 WL Dobbie & Co) from Glasgow and ended her service under this name on November 8, 1916. She was with ammunition for the Russian army loaded, walked to Arkhangelsk and lay there for unloading at the pier of Bakariza (Бакарица) on the left bank of the Northern Dvina in today's Issakogorsky Okrug district, when the Russian transporter Baron Driesen lying next to her , which had loaded 1,600 tons of ammunition, exploded and sank . The result of fires and further explosions of ammunition already unloaded on the pier spread to the Earl of Forfar , which about 40 minutes later after several explosions also sank in the shallow water to the bottom of the harbor. 23 of their crew and the dock workers working on the floating crane next to it were killed. Seven British sailors were later honored with the Albert Medal for rescuing injured crew members and Russian workers .
The West Russian Steamship Co. in Arkhangelsk bought and lifted the wreck in 1917, renamed it Baklan (Баклан = cormorant), and had it towed to Hamburg for repair at the end of the war . The ship was subsequently seized by the British government and assigned to the shipping controller . In 1919 it was returned to its previous owner and repairs began at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg. On December 8, 1919, HAPAG bought the ship. After the repairs were completed, HAPAG initially had it managed by the Danish company Chr. Jensen AS in Copenhagen from March 20, 1920 , and the ship sailed from Hamburg to New York for the first time on June 27, 1920 under the new name Mette Jensen . On March 3, 1921, HAPAG took over the ship itself and renamed it Sachsenwald . It was mainly used in the North and South America service.
The Sachsenwald was sold to G. Oberti in Genoa for scrapping in November 1931 and, after her last voyage, landed on January 7, 1932 in Savona ( Italy ) for scrapping.
Web links
- SS Earl of Forfar, at ewww.clydesite.co.uk
- Hamburg-American-Paketfahrt-Aktiengesellschaft (HAPAG): Ships