Goldenfels (ship, 1895)
 The first Goldenfels
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The first cargo ship with the name Goldenfels was given to the German Steamship Company "Hansa" in 1895 from Wigham, Richardson & Co. , the main supplier of the shipping company until 1914. The first Goldenfels was replaced by a new building in 1911 and eventually became part of the German Levante Line .
The ship, renamed Kawak, was seized by the British Royal Navy at the beginning of the First World War in the Mediterranean . In 1917, the former Goldenfels , which was in the service of the Allies as the Polar Prince, was sunk by a German submarine .
Construction and technical data
The first gold rock with the hull number 311 was the first of the German Steamship Company "Hansa" in the yard of Wigham, Richardson & Co. in Low Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne , ordered new construction, after the purchase of the already under construction Ehrenfels 1882 Up to 1911 the shipyard had delivered 26 more ships, most recently the second Goldenfels of 7249 GRT.
The first Goldenfels ran on August 7, 1895 by Stack . The ship had a length of 106.98 m (Lüa) or 103.53 m (LzdL), was 13.41 m wide, and had a side height of 8.94 m and a draft of 5.79 m. The ship was measured with 3,535 GRT and 2,269 NRT and had a deadweight capacity of 5,500 tdw . The machinery consisted of a 4-cylinder, quadruple expansion steam engine from Wigham Richardson & Co. with 1400 PSi at 62 / min and one screw and enabled a service speed of 10 knots . Three 5 t booms and five 3 t booms were used as loading gear . The crew consisted of 41 men.
The Goldenfels had two sister ships also built for the DDG "Hansa" , which were built by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. in Middlesbrough and as Steinberger and Ockenfels . were delivered in the first half of 1895.
career
The Goldenfels was delivered to DDG "Hansa" in Bremen on September 6, 1895 and went to Asia for this shipping company until 1911 . Her sister ship Ockenfels sank off Gibraltar on July 3, 1909 after a collision with a British steamer. The other sister ship, the Steinberger , left the service of the DDG Hansa in the spring of 1910 and was employed in the Levant service.
On July 31, 1911, the Goldenfels was sold to Spielmann & Co. KG in Hamburg and renamed Ingeborg . On October 23, 1911, the ship was resold to Hapag , which renamed the ship Persia . Less than a year later, on July 1, 1912, the ship was sold back to Spielmann & Co. KG, which renamed it Oberon and then on October 21, 1912 to Bremen, which had been operated by the German Levante Line since 1905 "Atlas" steamship line sold. The ship was renamed again, this time in Kawak , and on January 3, 1913, became fully owned by the German Levante Line.
On August 8, 1914, the Kawak was picked up in the Mediterranean by the British light cruiser Chatham and escorted to Bizerta and then brought to Malta . There they arrived on September 21, became the pinch declared and the British Admiralty overwritten. The ship was in 1915 by the shipping company J. Knott & Sons, a subsidiary of Prince Steam Shipping Company in Newcastle bought and renamed Polar Prince . In 1917 the ship was transferred back to the Admiralty, which then had it managed by the shipping company Farrar, Groves & Co. (Fargrove Steam Nav. Co., Ltd.) in London .
Sinking
On September 18, 1917 , on the voyage from Milford Haven to Malta , the Polar Prince was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB 50 under Lieutenant Franz Becker , about eight nautical miles west of Cape Spartel off the Strait of Gibraltar .
Further ships of the DDG "Hansa" with the name Goldenfels
- The second Goldenfels was delivered to the shipping company by Swan Hunter on November 23, 1911 . She was the last ship that the previous main supplier delivered to the shipping company.
- The third Goldenfels was delivered from Bremer Vulkan on January 27, 1938 . As the German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis , she became one of the most famous ships of the Second World War .
- The fourth Goldenfels was delivered as a heavy lift carrier by AG Weser on July 21, 1954 .
- The fifth Goldenfels was delivered on February 28, 1970 as a semi-container ship and type ship of the ST class from the Flender shipyard .
Bought ships of the DDG "Hansa" in service with the German Levante Line in 1914
| Surname | Shipyard | GRT tdw |
Launched in service |
further fate |
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Athos ex Marxburg |
Elsinore building no. 30th |
1809 2535 |
01.1891 28.03.1891 |
February 20, 1900 purchase by DLL, renamed Athos , confiscated from Russia in Mariupol in 1914, December 24, 1914 sunk by the German-Turkish cruiser Midilli off Zonguldak , the sister ship Heimburg , acquired in 1899 , then Argos was resold to Russia in 1906 |
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Bogados ex Braunfels |
Sunderland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd construction no. 165 |
3007 4500 |
01.1891 March 9, 1891 |
from November 28, 1904 in the Indian coastal voyage as Mirzapur , June 1906 sold to DG "Argo" : Antares , bought on March 26, 1912 by DLL, renamed Bogados , used for the Mediterranean division , confiscated in Piraeus in 1916 , as Moulin Blanc under French flag, stranded with a cargo of phosphate near Île de Ré on a trip from Sfax to La Rochelle on June 12, 1920 ; |
|
Eresos ex Stolzenfels |
Sir Raylton Dixon & Co BauNr. 368 |
3092 4750 |
05.1893 07.07.1893 |
December 5, 1904 sold to DG "Argo": America , 1905 to 1908 at NDL, then again DG "Argo", bought on March 19, 1912 by DLL, renamed Eresos , 1914 sold to Osmanli Seyrisefain Idarese (Ottoman Sea Transport Division) , sunk on September 5, 1915 in the mouth of the Sakarya in the Black Sea by gunfire from the Russian torpedo boat destroyers Bystrii and Pronzitelnyi ; |
|
Karpathos ex Rothenfels |
Dixon construction no. 395 |
2957 4750 |
10.1893 April 12, 1893 |
from November 28, 1904 in the Indian coastal voyage as Jamalpur , June 14, 1906 sold to DG "Argo": Andromeda , bought on April 26, 1912 by DLL, renamed Karpathos , delivered to Great Britain in 1919: Miad of Tenos , July 1922 to Shipping company Kirchner: Hohen-Neuffen , June 1926 to Schuchmann: Westsee II , January 6, 1927 stranded south of Bodø |
|
Kalymnos ex Lindenfels |
Dixon construction no. 396 |
2992 4600 |
11.1893 13.06.1893 |
from November 28, 1904 in the Indian coastal voyage as Ghazipur , August 10, 1906 sold to DG "Argo": Arcturus , bought on February 10, 1912 by DLL, renamed Kalymnos , on August 6, 1914 off Sicily by the British destroyer HMS Savage applied, 1915 Polish Prince , sunk on July 17, 1915 after a collision; |
|
Cybros ex Marienburg |
Flensburger SG building no. 142 |
2296 2144 |
12/12/1893 01/18/1894 |
February 6, 1904 sold to F. Laeisz , renamed Kybros , managed by DLL and purchased on January 19, 1906, formally delivered in 1920, to Rob in 1921 . M. Sloman : Almeria , 1925 Sale to Italy: Fedelta , 1933 sold for demolition |
|
Kalymnos ex Harzburg |
Flensburg building no. 144 |
2296 2760 |
February 6, 1894 March 6, 1894 |
January 20, 1904 sold to F. Laeisz , renamed Naxros , managed by DLL and purchased on January 19, 1906, confiscated in Lisbon in 1916 : Aveiro , sunk in the Ionian Sea by UB 53 on April 10, 1918 |
|
Italia ex Steinberger |
Dixon construction no. 407 |
3583 5500 |
12.1894 5.07.1895 |
May 25, 1910 sale to AC de Freitas , renamed Italia , purchased the managed DLL from the ship on March 4, 1911 seized in Italy in 1916 on June 18, 1917. Savona by UC 35 sunk |
|
Kawak ex Goldenfels |
Wigham & Richardson building no. 311 |
3535 5500 |
August 7, 1895 September 6, 1895 |
Sold July 1911, November 23, 1911 to July 1, 1912 in service with Hapag as Persia , bought by DLL on January 3, 1913 and renamed Kawak, seized off Gibraltar on August 6, 1914 by the British cruiser HMS Chatham , 1915 Polar Prince , sunk by UB 50 west of Cape Spartel on September 18, 1917 |
|
Babylon ex Rudelsburg |
Dixon construction no. 417 |
2489 3700 |
12.1895 30.10.1896 |
October 23, 1907 sold to AC de Freitas , renamed Babylon , the ship managed by DLL bought on March 4, 1911, torpedoed off Oland by British submarine E 19 on October 11, 1915 , the ship stranded in the Netherlands repaired, delivered in 1920, to Greece in 1923: Filia E. Tricoglou , January 27, 1927 after being stranded, total loss |
literature
- Hans Georg Prager: DDG Hansa: From liner service to special shipping. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford, 1976, ISBN 3-7822-0105-1
- Reinhold Thiel: The history of the DDG Hansa. Volume 1: 1881-1918. HM Hauschild, Bremen, 2010, ISBN 3-89757-477-2
Web links
- Goldenfels (1) on ddghansa-shipsphotos
- Goldenfels (1895) on tynebuiltships
Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.ddghansa-shipsphotos.de/steinberger100.htm
- ↑ http://www.ddghansa-shipsphotos.de/ockenfels100.htm
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://uboat.net/wwi/boats/successes/ub50.html
- ↑ http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?94878
