Eduard Bohlen (ship)
 Wreck of the Eduard Bohlen
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The second Eduard Bohlen was a combined ship of the Woermann Line (WL) built by Blohm & Voss in 1890/91 . It replaced the first ship of this name delivered to the DOAL as the Reichspostdampfer Reichstag .
The on line since 1903 German South West Africa after Cape Town used Eduard Bohlen ran on 5 September 1909 in a fog in the Conception Bay on the Skeleton Coast of present-day Namibia due. Due to silting up, the wreck is now an average of 500 meters from the sea in the Namib .
history
In 1888, the Woermann Line ordered four steamers with a larger passenger facility from the Blohm & Voss shipyard for their service from Hamburg to West Africa. The ten steamers previously delivered by the shipping company only offered space for 15 or 30 passengers. The newbuildings ordered were to be over 2000 GRT for the first time and offer space for 46 passengers.
The first new building was launched on September 15, 1889 as Eduard Bohlen and was delivered on November 18, 1889. The ship was named after the shipowner and consul Eduard Bohlen . The second ship, Aline Woermann , was launched on February 18, 1890.
German East Africa Line
On April 19, 1890, the German East Africa Line (DOAL) was founded in Hamburg , which concluded a subsidy contract with the German Reich on May 9 to operate a Reich mail steamer line from Hamburg to Delagoa Bay without having its own ships. In order to meet the contractual conditions quickly, the two aforementioned Woermann-Linie ships were sold to DOAL, managed by Adolph Woermann .
The Aline Woermann was renamed Bundesrath and has already been delivered to the new shipping company under this name. It remained in service with the DOAL until the fall of 1909, when it was scrapped.
The first Eduard Bohlen was renamed the Reichstag and began the first test voyage of a DOAL mail steamer to East Africa on July 23, 1890. Both ships met the conditions of the Reichspoststampfer contract and were used as Reichspostdampfer on the main line until after the turn of the century. Used on the branch line from Durban to Bombay since 1902 , the Reichstag was sold to Turkey in autumn 1910 , where it was named Sabah . Confiscated by the Italians in 1911 during the Italo-Turkish War , it ran under the Italian flag as Libano , Fido and Ida until 1923 , before being scrapped.
The "replacement buildings"
The two ships handed over to the DOAL were replaced by the two other newbuildings already ordered from Blohm & Voss and were given the names of the ships handed in.
The second Eduard Bohlen was manufactured under construction number 75, was launched on October 23, 1890 and was delivered to the Woermann Line on January 28, 1891, which from 1891 also occasionally called German South West Africa and from 1893 a fixed line network from Hamburg operated on the African coast from Morocco to Angola. However, the Woermann Line ordered to 1900 mainly small cargo ships of Jeanette Woermann class and no new buildings for passenger traffic, but acquired older mail steamer of the Hamburg-Süd such as Adolph Woermann put into service Belgrano .
In 1895, the German shipping company co-founded the Société Maritime du Congo , to whom Eduard Bohlen , which ran under the Belgian flag at that time, made it available until 1898 . In 1898, the Belgian subsidiary received a 3757 GRT station wagon built in Great Britain called Bruxellesville .
In 1903 the Eduard Bohlen replaced the previous small ships on the line from German South West Africa to Cape Town. In 1906 this line was supplemented by the use of the sister ship Aline Woermann , which was sold in 1908.
On September 5, 1909, the Eduard Bohlen stranded on a trip from Swakopmund to Cape Town in thick fog in Conception Bay and could not be brought back.
Fate of the sister ships
| Surname | Construction no. | GRT | Launched in service |
further fate |
| Parliament | No. 67 | 2202 | 15.09.1889 18.11.1889 |
until July 7, 1890 Eduard Bohlen , then Reichspostdampfer of the DOAL, from 1902 service on the branch line to Bombay, 1910 sale to Turkey, captured by Italy in 1911, scrapped in 1923 |
| Federal Council | No. 70 | 2192 | 18.02.1890 03.25.1891 |
as Aline Woermann vom Stapel, Reichspostdampfer of the DOAL, from 1903 service on the branch line to Bombay, October 1909 sold for demolition |
| Aline Woermann | No. 77 | 2378 | 02/21/1891 04/20/1893 |
West Africa Service, 1906 German South West Africa Service to Cape Town, 1908 sold to China, lost in 1918 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kludas: Passenger Shipping , Vol. I: The Pioneering Years from 1850 to 1890 , p. 166
- ↑ a b c d e f Kludas: Passenger Shipping , Vol. I, p. 164 f.
- ↑ Reinke-Kunze: Reichs-Post-Dampfer , pp. 59 f., 171 f.
- ↑ Kludas: Passenger Shipping , Vol. II: Expansion on all seas 1890 to 1900 , p. 66 ff.
- ↑ a b c Kludas, Afrika-Linien , p. 20
- ↑ Kludas, Afrika-Linien , p. 19
Web links
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- Arnold Kludas : The ships of the German Africa Lines 1880 to 1945 . Verlag Gerhard Stalling, 1975, ISBN 3-7979-1867-4 .
- Arnold Kludas: The History of German Passenger Shipping . Vol. I The Pioneering Years from 1850 to 1890 , Writings of the German Maritime Museum, Volume 18.
- Arnold Kludas: The History of German Passenger Shipping . Vol. II Expansion on All Seas 1890 to 1900 , Writings of the German Maritime Museum, Volume 19.
- Lufthansa Magazin, 4/2012.
- Hans Georg Prager: Blohm & Voss . Koehler Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1977, ISBN 3-7822-0127-2 .
- Christine Reinke-Kunze: The history of the Reichspostdampfer . Köhlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1994, ISBN 3-7822-0618-5 .
Coordinates: 23 ° 59 ′ 45.3 ″ S , 14 ° 27 ′ 26.9 ″ E