Gaarden (ship, 1943)
The Gaarden was a supply and mine ship built in 1943 for the German Navy .
The ship was launched on 29 August 1943 with the hull number 221 on the Rickmers shipyard (Rickmers rice mills, Rhederei and shipbuilding corporation) in Wesermünde from the stack . It was 68.1 m long and 10.4 m wide and measured at 1458 GRT . Two diesel engines enabled a speed of 11.6 knots over two screws .
The Gaarden served in the Navy until the end of World War II . It was damaged in a bombing raid on Narvik in 1945 and became British spoils at the end of the war. She was towed to England and given in 1946 as a reparation payment by the government of New Zealand and by the latter in 1947 to the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. After repair, it arrived in New Zealand in August 1947. She was renamed Kamo , the shipping company's second ship of that name , and for the next ten years sailed mostly between New Zealand and Australia .
The ship was launched in Sydney in April 1957 and was soon sold to Sunning Trading Corp. sold in Panama . It operated under the new name Sunning until 1960. Then it was sold to the Chip Hong Navigation Co. in Hong Kong , with both the ship's name and the registration in Panama remaining. On the night of December 30th to 31st, 1961, the Sunning leaked and sank while sailing from Kaohsiung ( Taiwan ) to Singapore .
Footnotes
- ↑ Another Gaarden was the former Seebäderschiff Dr. Ziegner-Gnuechel , which drove as a cattle truck from 1950 until it was scrapped in 1963 .
- ^ NZ Ship & Marine Society: Kamo 1947-1958
- ^ Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, on The Ships List