General (ship, 1911)
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General Azay le Rideau 
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| Launch : | July 23, 1910 | |
| Commissioning: | February 25, 1911 | |
| Builder : |
Blohm + Voss , Hamburg , building no. 203 |
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| Passengers : | 155 I. Class 40 II. Class 88 III. class |
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| Crew : | ~ 170 men | |
| Sister ships : |
Kigoma , Tabora |
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| Technical specifications | ||
| Measurement : | 8,063 GRT | |
| Load capacity : | 7,249 dwt | |
| Length over all : | 136.55 m | |
| Width : | 16.46 m | |
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| Machinery: | Triple expansion steam engines | |
| Number of screws : | 2 | |
| Power: | 4,800 PSi | |
| Top speed: | 13.5 kn | |
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The General was a Reichspostdampfer on the German East Africa Line .
history
The General launched on July 13, 1910 (8063 BRT, 155 first, 40 second, 88 third class passengers and possibly 70 seats in the tween deck) was delivered on February 25, 1911 and then on the main line of the DOAL , the so-called all-around-Africa-service.
Departed from Hamburg in July 1914, also with passengers for the second state exhibition in the German colony of German East Africa and with essential parts on board for the large Tabora radio station under construction in the colony, the General stopped at Messina because of the threat of war ( World War I ) and the crew helped the Mediterranean division with coal. On August 6th, the General sailed towards Smyrna . On August 11th she reached Constantinople . She served the German cruisers SMS Goeben and SMS Breslau as a living room and hospital ship.
After their landing in Odessa in December 1918, the French confiscated the general there and initially repatriated Russian and Turkish prisoners of war with them. With 3,000 French soldiers from Salonika on board, she ran aground on February 7, 1919 on the north-east coast of Corsica. The tug Goliath found her quickly and was able to tow her free.
In 1923 she came to the Africa service of Messageries Maritimes as Azay le Rideau , but also went to Indochina and the islands in the Indian Ocean. In 1931 she suffered damage from a fire on board in Marseille. In January 1937 the ship was demolished in La Seyne-sur-Mer .
literature
- Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping. Volume 4: Destruction and rebirth 1914 to 1930. Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1986, ( writings of the German Maritime Museum 21)
- Hans Georg Prager: Blohm + Voss - Ships and Machines for the World , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1977
- Christine Reinke-Kunze: History of the Reichs-Post-Steamers. Connection between the continents 1886–1914. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1994
- Claus Rothe: German ocean passenger ships. 1896 to 1918 . Steiger Verlag, Moers 1986
- Reinhart Schmelzkopf: The German Merchant Shipping 1919–1939. 2 volumes. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg et al .;
- Volume 1: Chronicle and evaluation of the events in shipping and shipbuilding. 1974
- Volume 2: List of all ships over 500 GRT with all technical and historical data. 1975