Eisenach (ship, 1922)
 The sister ship Porta
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The Eisenach was a cargo ship built in 1922 by the North German Lloyd (NDL). In 1935 the shipping company sold the ship to Bulgaria to the Societé Commerciale Bulgare de Navigation à Vapeur , which renamed the ship Rodina . In September 1941, the steamer sank off Burgas after a mine hit .
Construction and technical data
The ship belonged to the Minden class, the first type of cargo ship that the NDL ordered after the First World War. The Eisenach was the fourth ship in the class after the Minden , the Porta and the Nienburg . The following sister ship Erfurt was also built for the NDL, and the Roland , Alda and Atto for the subsidiary Roland-Linie . At the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin , the Eisenach was laid down under construction number 652 . The launch took place on July 20, 1922, the commissioning took place on October 6, 1922. At the NDL it was the second ship of this name - the first Eisenach was a 1907 passenger and cargo steamer of the Gotha class in service with the NDL, the Was confiscated from Brazil in 1917 .
The length of the Eisenach was 115.13 meters over everything, it was 15.55 meters wide and had a maximum draft of 7.2 meters. It was measured with 4159 GRT or 2535 NRT and had a load capacity of 6513 tdw. The drive consisted of a 3-cylinder triple expansion machine from the Vulcan shipyard, whose output was 1800 PSi . This acted on a screw , the steamer reached a speed of 11.0 knots . The crew consisted of 49 men, the ship could take up to twelve passengers.
history
Eisenach of the North German Lloyd
After the commissioning, the NDL used the Eisenach in the South American service as planned - it operated the route between Bremen and Brazil. There the journey led to Rio de Janeiro and, with the right freight, to Natal , Cabedello , Pernambuco , Maceió , Bahia , Victoria and, in Europe, the Portuguese port of Leixões ( Porto ). In addition to the Eisenach , the sister ships Minden , Nienburg , Porta and Erfurt also served this route. The ship remained on this connection for the next few years. In the meantime, journeys by the Eisenach to the American east coast to Philadelphia and Baltimore are also mentioned in the literature for 1923 .
The end of the Eisenach under the flag of North German Lloyd came in 1935. On the way from the Black Sea to Hull at the mouth of the Humber on the North Sea , the ship collided with the British battleship Ramillies on August 30, 1935 . In the evening of the day, the Eisenach was a few nautical miles from Dover when it collided with the battleship in " poor weather ". During evasive maneuvers by both ships, the Ramillies bored into the port bow of the steamer, killing three sailors. The Eisenach , severely damaged at the bow , could only be brought to Dover after difficult maneuvers; the Ramillies received only minor damage above the waterline. After the ship was repaired, the shipping company decided not to employ the freighter on the advice of its insurance company and sold the Eisenach in October 1935.
Bulgarian Rodina
After repairing the ship, the NDL sold the Eisenach on October 31, 1935 to the Bulgarian state shipping company Societé Commerciale Bulgare de Navigation à Vapeur . In the presence of the Bulgarian envoy in Berlin, the Bulgarian navy, the president of the Bulgarian state shipping company and the Bulgarian consul general in Bremen, the ship was renamed Rodina ( Родина , German: "home") on November 2, 1935 in Bremen . The shipping company's new steamer was also its largest ship, and the home port was Varna .
The shipping company used the Rodina on the connection between Warna and Rotterdam that was set up just a year earlier - together with the Knyaginya Maria Louisa (ex Felix Fraissinet , 3821 BRT) and the Balkans (ex Louis Fraissinet , 3823 BRT). The ship used this route until Bulgaria joined the Three Power Pact on March 1, 1941. According to the shipping company, all of their ships were chartered or sold to the Germans during the Second World War , but this information has not yet been confirmed for the Rodina . The last reference to the ship comes from September 1941: On September 19, the Rodina sinks in front of Tsarevo near Burgas on a mine barrier.
Today the wreck of the ship, lying at a depth of 30 to 45 meters, is a popular destination for divers.
literature
- Reinhart Schmelzkopf: Die deutsche Handelsschiffahrt 1919–1939, Volume 2: List of all ships over 500 GRT with all technical and historical data , Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg, Hamburg 1975, ISBN 978-3-7979-1859-8 .
- Reinhold Thiel: The history of the North German Lloyd 1857-1970. Volume IV 1920–1945 , Verlag HM Hauschild, Bremen 2004, ISBN 3-89757-230-3 .
- Arnold Kludas : Die Seeschiffe des Norddeutscher Lloyd 1920 to 1970 , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1992, ISBN 3-7822-0534-0 .
Web links
- Sinking of the Rodina at wrecksite.eu , accessed on April 21, 2018
- Entry in Lloyd's Register 1936 , accessed April 21, 2018
- Photo of the Eisenach at shipsnostalgia.com , accessed April 26, 2018
Footnotes
- ^ Kludas, p. 11
- ↑ Kludas, p. 12, Thiel, p. 323, Schmelzkopf, p. 98f., Entry in Lloyd's Register 1936
- ↑ Thiel, p. 68, p. 39
- ↑ Thiel, p. 236f., Hansa, Deutsche Nautische Zeitschrift , 72nd volume, Hamburg, November 1935, p. 1464
- ^ Hansa, Deutsche Nautische Zeitschrift , Volume 72, Hamburg, November 1935, p. 1907
- ↑ History of the successor shipping company Navibulgar
- ^ Chronicle of the Naval War September 1941 , sinking of the Rodina at wrecksite.eu
- ↑ Diving Guide Bulgaria