Egypte (ship, 1896)
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The Egypte was the first cargo ship to be sold by the German Steamship Company "Hansa" (DDG "Hansa") to the Belgian shipping company Armement Adolph Deppe in Antwerp . The Belgian shipping company acquired two sister ships of the Egypte until 1909. It was delivered in 1896 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. in Middlesbrough to the DDG "Hansa" as Wolfsburg for service to La Plata . The shipyard delivered two more ships to the Bremen shipping company. The first ship to this series was the Sonnenburg , which was delivered in 1907 and built by Wigham & Richardson in Newcastle .
From 1907 the Bremen shipping company replaced these ships with new builds. The first ship delivered by Dixon, the Rudelsburg , was sold as the Babylon to AC de Freitas & Co. for service with the German Levante Line (DLL). The three other ships went to the Belgian shipping company Armement Deppe until 1909 , which they used with its subsidiary Compagnie Nationale Belge de Transports Maritimes, also in association with DLL.
In Egypte renamed Wolfsburg was already on February 20, 1909 in front of Patras after a collision with the Greek steamer Andreas lost.
History of the ship
At the beginning of 1897 the DDG "Hansa" received four new ships of over 2500 GRT and 3700 tdw from British shipyards for their La Plata service. They gradually replaced the smaller ships of the Wartburg- class ships that were acquired in Flensburg and Denmark from 1889 and sold to other shipping companies from 1899.
The Wolfsburg was the second ship of the three ships in the series delivered by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. in Middlesbrough. These were the last deliveries from the shipyard in Middlesbrough to DDG Hansa, which received eight newbuildings from the shipyard between 1893 and 1896. The fourth ship of the new South America freighters was delivered by the Wigham & Richardson shipyard, the future main supplier of the Bremen shipping company.
Wolfsburg , built under construction number 418, was launched on December 30, 1895. She had a length of 98.45 m length over all and was 12.9 m wide and had a draft of up to 4.44 m. She and her sister ships were the largest ships ever procured for the shipping company's South America service. The ship was propelled by a 3-cylinder triple expansion engine of 1200 PSi, which enabled a speed of 9.5 knots (kn). The Wolfsburg was measured with 2489 GRT and had a carrying capacity of 3700 tdw. On January 17, 1896 the ship was delivered. It was named after Wolfsburg Castle in Lower Saxony (then in the province of Hanover).
Mission history of Wolfsburg , then Egypte
The Wolfsburg was used on the line of the DDG "Hansa" to the Rio de La Plata. The replacement of the older ships by the larger newbuildings of the Marksburg class began in 1905 and the Wolfsburg and her sisters were sold from 1907. The first ship went to a German shipping company cooperating with the German Levante Line. The Wolfsburg and her remaining sisters were sold to the Belgian shipping company Armement Deppe. This shipping company also worked with the DLL.
Wolfsburg , first sold to Armement Deppe, was renamed Egypte . On February 20, 1909, she was lost on a voyage from Antwerp to Varna with a general cargo in front of the Greek port of Patras after a collision with the Greek steamer Andreas .
The sister ship Algerie (ex Minneburg ) bought in 1908 and the Tunisie (ex Sonnenburg ) bought after the loss of the Egypte in 1909 remained in the service of the Belgian shipping company until the mid-twenties, which acquired six former DDG Hansa ships after the end of the First World War .
In the mid-twenties, Armement Deppe sold the two old ships to new owners in Italy.
The Sonnenburg- class La Plata steamers
| Surname | Shipyard | GRT tdw |
Launched in service |
further fate |
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Sonnenburg |
Wigham & Richardson building no. 314 |
2477 3700 |
December 14, 1895 January 17, 1896 |
May 8, 1909 sold to Armement Adolf Deppe: Tunisia , 1927 to Italy :: Cosmo , Cloto , Primo , Cosmo , 1934 demolished; |
|
Rudelsburg (1) |
Raylton Dixon construction no. 417 |
2489 3700 |
December 2, 1895 January 30, 1896 |
October 23, 1907 to AC de Freitas & Co .: Babylon , March 4, 1911 DLL, torpedoed and damaged by the British submarine E 19 off Öland on October 11, 1915, beached to prevent sinking, later recovered and towed to Delfzijl for repairs until May 4, 1916 , delivered to Great Britain in July 1920, to Greece in 1920: Filia E. Tricoglu , stranded on January 27, 1926 near the island of Sifnos ; |
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Wolfsburg (1) |
Raylton Dixon construction no. 418 |
2489 3700 |
30.12.1895 18.02.1896 |
October 5, 1907 sold to Armement Adolf Deppe: Egypte , February 20, 1909 sunk off Patras after colliding with the Greek steamer Andreas ; |
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Minneburg (1) |
Raylton Dixon construction no. 419 |
2489 3700 |
December 18, 1895 April 24, 1896 |
July 28, 1908 sold to Armement Adolf Deppe: Algerie , 1925 to Italy :: Algeria , Gianni , Edoardo , 1932 to Yugoslavia: Karmen , Tara , 1953 demolished; |
literature
- Hans Georg Prager: DDG Hansa - from liner services to special shipping. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1976, ISBN 3-7822-0105-1 .
Web links
- The Wolfsburg 1896-1907, then Egypte on ddghansa
- The Sonnenburg 1896–1909
- The Rudelsburg 1896–1907
- The Minneburg 1896–1908