Single-acting steam engine, from 1880 composite steam engine
Top speed
10 kn (19 km / h)
propeller
1
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers
1st class 60 tween deck 600
The Frankfurt was the first passenger steamer of North German Lloyd named after Frankfurt am Main . It was built in 1869 and was in Lloyd's liner service to North America and later to South America until 1894.
history
The Frankfurt was built with hull number 151 at Caird & Co. Ltd. in Greenock to set keel and ran on 18 June 1869 by the stack . The ship was an iron screw steamer with a clipper bow , a chimney and two masts that could carry auxiliary sails. The service speed was 10 knots. Together with her sister ship Hanover , she was destined for the new liner service of the North German Lloyd from Bremerhaven to New Orleans . The two ships were given the names of two formerly independent German states that had been annexed by Prussia in 1866 .
On September 15, 1869, the Frankfurt embarked on its maiden voyage from Bremen via Le Havre and Havana to New Orleans. It was also the first voyage of a Lloyd steamer to New Orleans. 1870 went Frankfurt for the first time to New York , where she during the Franco-German War 1870-71 rested . After the peace treaty , she resumed her regular trips to New Orleans, but was also deployed to New York a total of six times.
In 1880 the shipping company had the Frankfurt steam engine converted to the more powerful network system in the shipyard . On August 10, 1881, the ship began its first voyage to South America. After a last voyage from Bremen to Baltimore in 1882 , the shipping company only used the ship, which was now too obsolete for North Atlantic service, in service to South America. Their last voyage began on September 30, 1893. Then the shipping company opened the Frankfurt and gave it in 1894, together with the Ohio , also built in 1869 , to the Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne in payment for the new building Mark . In 1895 the Frankfurt was sold as a coal ship to La Spezia and broken up there in March 1896.
literature
Arnold Kludas : The ships of the North German Lloyd: 1857-1970 . Vol. 1: 1857 to 1919, p. 20, Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Herford 1991, ISBN 3782205243 .
