Friesenstein class
 The Bayern stone in Auckland, 1973
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The ship class referred to as the Friesenstein class is a series of motor ships of the North German Lloyd . The express freighter series of Norddeutscher Lloyd was their last draft of a conventional general cargo ship before the merger with HAPAG and the subsequent conversion of the two shipping companies to container ships .
history
The series of this type of ship , built by Lübeck's Flender-Werke and Bremer Vulkan, comprised seven units, which were put into service in quick succession in 1967/68. The first ship of the class was the Friesenstein , which was delivered on September 28, 1967 . The end of the class was Bayernstein .
With the concept of the fast freighters, which, with their high speed of 21.5 knots, enabled a considerable reduction in travel times, the NDL also hoped to achieve an improvement in the cost-effectiveness of the liner service to the Far East and to catch up with HAPAG, with which one is united Joint service to East Asia operated and in March of the same year had put the last of seven similarly designed express freighters of the Westfalia class into service. Planning for the Friesenstein class began in 1965, when the first experience with the competitor's new ships had been gained and the financing of the expensive newbuildings had been determined.
Even at the start of construction of the Friesenstein class, the change in long-distance liner traffic through the introduction of the container became clear. This led to the fact that only a short time later, the East Asian service was switched to container ships. Even before North German Lloyd merged with HAPAG on September 1, 1970, both shipping companies had each ordered their first four container ships, which were put into service in 1972/73 for the joint East Asian service of the newly founded Hapag-Lloyd . This is why Hapag-Lloyd brought the seven ships from the Far East service to the South American service from 1972.
The transformation of Hapag-Lloyd into a container liner shipping company continued until the end of the 1970s. Four ships of the Friesenstein class were sold: The first ship was the Hessenstein in 1974 , the Badenstein followed in 1978, the Sachsenstein in 1979 and the Bayernstein in 1980 . The remaining three ships, Friesenstein , Holstenstein and Schwabenstein , were converted into semi-container ships by Thyssen-Nordseewerke in Emden in 1980 . The Schwabenstein was the first ship to arrive in Emden on February 21, 1980 for conversion. The first conversion was completed on April 22nd, the conversion of the Friesenstein followed in the months of April to June and the Holstenstein was completed on August 7th, 1980. During the conversion, the hull was cut apart directly in front of the superstructure and a 14.80 m long section was used. This later formed container hold number 5, which was equipped with cell scaffolding . A 28-tonne container crane was attached between hold 4 and 5. Furthermore, the ships were widened by a total of four meters by adding side swellings 96 meters long and two meters wide in order to increase the ship 's stability. After the conversion, the ships were around two knots slower than before and were able to transport 322 TEU containers in the hold and 182 TEU on deck.
The converted ships remained on the route between Northern Europe and the South American west coast for the next three to four years, then they too were sold. It is noticeable that the four ships that were sold early were all abandoned after 15 to 20 years, while the useful life of the modernized units was in the lower normal range. This can be explained by the fact that containerization soon no longer allowed the profitable general cargo use of the technically complex liner express freighters, while the subsequently converted ships found their economic niche for another ten years.
technology
The most striking feature, in addition to the extremely space-saving and very powerful propulsion system, which had been designed for partially guard-free operation shortly before construction began on the first ship, were the versatile loading facilities. The ships were equipped with conventional loading booms and two board cranes (before the modifications). In addition, all ships were equipped with an 80-ton cambered heavy lift boom to take over heavy lifts. Further cargo facilities were the cargo tanks for oil cargo, which were arranged in the bow area under the dry cargo holds.
Remarkable, also in the optical sense, is the equipment of all ships of the series, with a bulbous bow and a transom .
The two ships Badenstein and Holstenstein were also equipped with training facilities and accommodation for the training of 18 cadets.
The ships
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- The launch of the Friesenstein , the first ship of the NDL series, was on May 26, 1967. In September 1967, the yard test drive of hull number 567 was completed in the Baltic Sea, the handover followed on September 28, 1967. In 1980 the Friesenstein was extended to 176.50 m over all and converted into a semi-container ship. The ship was handed over to Tilsamar Inc, Panama in February 1983 and continued to operate under the name Kinaros . 1987 was followed by the sale to the Greek South American Line, Piraeus with renewed renaming in Athina I . On January 12, 1994, the ship was handed over to a demolition yard in Alang .
- The second ship of the series was the Holstenstein, delivered on November 28, 1967 by the Lübeck Flender works with the construction number 568 . In 1980 she was lengthened to 176.50 m over all and converted into a semi-container ship and in January 1984 handed over to Tilsamar Inc, Panama, which continues to operate it as Karos . In 1987 the Greek Regular Lines Special Shipping Company from Piraeus took over the ship and on June 11, 1994 the ship arrived in Alang for demolition.
- The third ship of the series was the Badenstein, launched on October 5, 1967 with hull number 569 . The handover to the shipping company took place on January 8, 1968. The Baden Stone was founded in 1978 to Cia. Sudamerikana Vapores (CSAV) sold in Chile and continued to operate there as Rapel . Six years later, on April 29, 1984, it was scrapped in Kaohsiung .
- On November 21, 1967 the launch / handover of the Hessenstein with the construction number 931 took place at the Bremer Vulkan. Since June 14, 1974 it was managed by Transnave, Ecuador as Isla Puna and on September 25, 1987 it was broken off in Kaohsiung .
- On December 13, 1967, the Sachsenstein was the last launching of this class at Flender-Werke. The ship with hull number 570 was delivered to its new owners on March 14, 1968. From March 9, 1979, she also ran for the Chilean shipping company Cia. Sudamerikana Vapores as Renaico . On January 31, 1994, she arrived in Kaohsiung for demolition.
- The handover of the Schwabenstein followed in January 1968 at the Bremer Vulkan with the construction number 932. It was also converted into a semi-container ship in 1980 and lengthened to 176.5 m and widened to 26.60 m. In 1984 she was sold to Tilsamar Inc, Panama and sailed there as Karpathos , before she was sold on to Greek Regular Lines Special Shipping Co in Piraeus in 1987. From May 31, 1995, the ship was canceled in Alang .
- The last ship of the series was launched on March 7, 1968 with hull number 933 at the Bremer Vulkan and delivered as Bayernstein . In August 1980 the ship was handed over to the South Star Shipping Company in Singapore and operated as the South Star for another three years . Although the last unit to be built, the ship, which was only around fifteen years old, was demolished in Kaohsiung on October 24, 1983 .
literature
- H. Vidal, M. Lücke, H. Lenk: express freighter MS "Friesenstein" . In: Ship and Harbor . tape 19 , no. December 12 , 1967, p. 914-922 .
- Arnold Kludas : The ships of the North German Lloyd . 1857 to 1970. Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-86047-262-3 .
- Karsten Kunibert Krüger-Kopiske: The ships from Hapag-Lloyd . Drawings and CVs. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7822-0861-7 .
- Harald Focke : The first containers came to the Weser. 50 years ago, the tin boxes triggered a transport revolution in Germany . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 796 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven April 2016, p. 3–4 ( digitized version [PDF; 739 kB ; accessed on July 30, 2019]).
- Harald Focke: The last general cargo carriers in Bremen. Friesenstein class was an expensive wrong decision by North German Lloyd . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 813 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven September 2017, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 3.4 MB ; accessed on July 13, 2019]).
Web links
Individual evidence
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