Field Marshal (ship)
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Field Marshal Field Marshal , Ling Nam , Hong Kheng   
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 The Field Marshal in 1919 as a British Field Marshal |
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| Purpose: | Hamburg-around-Africa line | |
| Owner: |
German East-Africa Line , Hamburg |
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| Launch : | February 21, 1903 | |
| Commissioning: | June 24, 1903 | |
| Maiden voyage : | August 26, 1903 | |
| Builder : |
Reiherstieg shipyard , Hamburg, building no. 410 |
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| Passengers: | 113 First class 75 Second class 80 Third class |
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| Crew: | 136 men | |
| Building-costs: | 2.9 million gold marks | |
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| Measurement : | 6,142 GRT | |
| Load capacity : | 6,100 dw | |
| Length over all : | 126.74 m | |
| Width: | 15.36 m | |
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| Machinery: | 2 triple expansion steam engines | |
| Number of screws : | 2 | |
| Power: | 4,000 PSi | |
| Top speed: | 13.0 kn | |
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The Reichspostdampfer Feldmarschall was one of 20 ships that the German East Africa Line ( DOAL ) used between 1890 and 1914 as part of the contract concluded in May 1890 with the German Reich on the establishment and operation of a regular German mail steamer service with East Africa let build.
After the Reichspostdampfer Kaiser (2901 BRT / built in 1891), König (4820 BRT / 1896), Gouverneur (3381 BRT / 1900) and Elector (5655 BRT / 1901), the ship was the fifth order from DOAL to the Reiherstieg shipyard in Hamburg (hull number 410) and was launched on February 21, 1903.
In 1914, the Reiherstieg shipyard still delivered the Reichspostdampfer Kigoma (8156 GRT), the largest DOAL ship before the First World War .
In service around Africa
On June 24, 1903, the field marshal began her maiden voyage on the “Hamburg-Rund um-Afrika” line and remained in this service until 1914. During this service, the Reichspostdampfer departing from Hamburg alternately first crossed the Atlantic to Cape Town and then returned via East Africa, the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean, or they first drove the traditional route through the Mediterranean and the return journey led around the Cape of Good Hope through the Atlantic to Hamburg.
From June to August 1907, Field Marshal Paul Graetz and his automobile brought him to East Africa, making it the first ever automobile to cross Africa.
On August 2nd, 1914, the Field Marshal arrived in Dar es Salaam . As the First World War just broke out, the ship was made unable to sail by order of the German colonial administration. On August 17, 1915, the Field Marshal was damaged by gunfire from the British warship HMS Hyacinth . After the conquest of Dar es Salaam by British troops in October 1916, the ship was renamed Field Marshall and used as a British troop transport. The Field Marshall brought the last Germans from the former colony of German East Africa to Hamburg in early 1919 .
In 1922 the ship was sold to Shanghai (renamed Ling Nam ) and in 1928 it was sold to Singapore (renamed Hong Kheng ). The former field marshal was stranded at Chilang Point on July 19, 1947 , during a journey from Yangon to Xiamen .
Sister ship mayor
The mayor commissioned by Flensburger Schiffbau was the first of three very similar ships to sail. At 5945 GRT, it was a bit smaller and shorter, launched on February 27, 1902, and delivered on June 19. As is usual with the imperial mail steamers to Africa, the ships commissioned from different shipyards differed in details and in the passenger facilities. The mayor offered space for 250 passengers in three classes and stayed in the "Around Africa" service until the start of the war. In August 1914 it was published in Hamburg for wartime.
On February 20, 1920, the mayor was extradited to France and deployed by the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique under the name Macoris from November 1920 to the West Indies and Central America to Colon . In the winter of 1927–1928 and from July to November 1931 she ran on the Bordeaux - Casablanca line . In 1934 she served a branch line around Haiti with the De la Salle . In 1935 it was canceled in Saint-Nazaire .
literature
- Arnold Kludas : The ships of the German Africa Lines 1880-1945. Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1975, ISBN 3-7979-1867-4 .
- Arnold Kludas: The History of German Passenger Shipping. Volume 3: Rapid growth 1900 to 1914. Ernst Kabel, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-8225-0039-9 , plan p. 28/29 ( writings of the German Maritime Museum 20).
- Christine Reinke-Kunze: History of the Reichs-Post-Steamers. Connection between the continents 1886–1914. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1994, ISBN 3-7822-0618-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paul Graetz: In the car across Africa . Facsimile of the 1910 edition, Göttingen / Windhoek: Klaus Hess Verlag, 2006, p. 11, ISBN 978-3-933117-35-9 .
- ^ Image of the Hyacinth and article on the Hermes class
- ↑ Article on the use of the Macoris and Image ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
