Greiffenfels (ship, 1950)
 Standard ship type Hansa-C
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The second Greiffenfels was launched on April 15, 1944 as the first standard cargo ship of the large Hansa-C type for the German Steamship Company "Hansa" (DDG "Hansa") at the Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij in Amsterdam . On September 24, 1944, the ship reached the Rheinstahl-Nordseewerke in Emden for further construction .
The ship could not be completed before the end of the war. Confiscated by the British, the Greiffenfels was delivered by the Rheinstahl-Nordseewerke to the Dutch Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaart Maatschappij on June 29, 1946 and put into service as Nijmegen .
On May 17, 1950, the German Steamship Company "Hansa" bought the ship back and had it repaired by AG "Weser" in Bremen and converted from coal to oil. Under its original name Greiffenfels , the ship was put into service by the DDG "Hansa" together with the now finally completed sister ship Argenfels . In 1956 the shipping company bought another ship of the "Hansa C" type and put it into service as the Rotenfels . In 1961 the three ships were modernized and converted into motor ships. In 1977/78 they were then taken out of service and scrapped.
History of the ship
During the Second World War , the DDG "Hansa" was one of the eight shipping companies that founded the "Schiffahrt Treuhand GmbH" on June 23, 1942 with the aim of developing the contractual and financial framework for a program for the series production of standard cargo ship types that would prevent the war losses of the Germans Shipowners should compensate.
As part of the Hansa building program , three types of ships (Hansa type A, type B, type C) were developed, which were primarily designed for the accessible navigation areas of the North and Baltic Seas. For each type, a so-called "front-end shipyard" was determined, according to whose design the series structures were to be built. For the large "Type C" developed by the Deutsche Werft in Hamburg, the Schichau-Werke in Danzig were the front-end shipyard. The ships were to be built in Germany and in shipyards in Germany-occupied countries.
In April 1942, however, six Type C ships had already been ordered from Dutch shipyards for the war losses of DDG "Hansa", the keel-laying of which five shipyards took place from March to August 1943. The Greiffenfels was the first of these ships to be launched on April 15, 1944 at the Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij in Amsterdam . The name had previously been borne by a cargo ship of 5812 GRT delivered by AG "Weser" in March 1914, which after delivery at the end of the war came under the Belgian flag as Flandres and sank in February 1940 after a collision. By November 1944, the five other ships for the DDG "Hansa" were launched at the other shipyards. The construction of the ships was significantly delayed. The Greiffenfels was not completed as planned on August 15, 1944, but only arrived unfinished in tow in Emden on September 24, 1944 , where the final completion was to take place at the North Sea Works. The unfinished sister ships Argenfels and the Axenfels , which had also been damaged by an act of sabotage, were towed via Emden to Hamburg for completion. Both sank there after bombing. The restoration of the Axenfels was finally abandoned at the end of 1947, while the Argenfels was the last of the ships started for the DDG "Hansa" to be completed in July 1950 and was the only one to be delivered directly to the Bremen shipping company. The Crostafels, which was launched in November 1944 as the last ship to be launched, was also towed to Germany and first landed in Emden and then in Bremerhaven. After the end of the war, construction work began on behalf of the Allies; the final completion took place in 1947/1948 in the Netherlands and the delivery then in August 1948 to the Yugoslav state shipping company . The unfinished sister ships Gutenfels and Frankenfels were sunk as block ships in the approach to the Amsterdam port in autumn 1944. Lifted after the war, they were completed as motor ships and put into service by Dutch shipping companies in 1948.
The Greiffenfels was built in 1944/1945 in Emden under the supervision of the DDG "Hansa". The almost finished ship was confiscated by the Allies at the end of the war and delivered to the Netherlands on June 29, 1946. As a ship of the large type "Hansa C", it was measured with 6345 GRT and had a deadweight capacity of 9730 tdw. She was 145.24 m long, 18.47 m wide and had a draft of up to 7.71 m. The 4-cylinder double-compound steam engine of the type LES 12 was supplied by WUMAG and produced 4000 PSi with a Bauer-Wach exhaust steam turbine , acted on one screw and gave the ship a speed of 12 knots (kn). The loading gear consisted of a 50 t and 30 t loading boom as well as sixteen 3 to 10 t loading booms on the two masts and six loading boom / fan posts next to each other in the area of the superstructure.
Mission history of the Greiffenfels
The Greiffenfels was delivered to the Netherlands under the new name Nijmegen and used by the Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaart Maatschappij. From 1947 the ship was managed by the shipping company "Amsterdam".
On May 17, 1950 the ship was bought by the original client DDG "Hansa", who gave it the original name Greiffenfels again . In addition, the ship also had a control council number and, until February 1951, the double stand C was also used as the national flag. On July 7, 1950, the AG Weser began repairing and converting from coal to oil firing. The ship was used by the Bremen shipping company together with the now finally completed sister ship Argenfels . In 1955 the bridge structure of the Greiffenfels was increased by one deck. In 1956 the shipping company bought another ship of the "Hansa C" type from Liberia and launched it as the Rotenfels .
In 1961 the three ships were modernized by AG Weser. After the Rotenfels , the shipyard converted the Greiffenfels into a motor ship in May 1961 . After the conversion, it was propelled by a 6-cylinder two-stroke diesel of the type MAN K6-270 / 120A with 4200 PSe, which gave the ship a speed of 13.25 knots. The conversion also led to a change in the superstructure, the loading gear and the installation of a new, lower chimney. After the conversion, the ship was measured with 6312 BRT / 3781 NRT and had a load capacity of 9659 tdw. The three ships remained in service for DDG "Hansa" until 1977. On August 30, 1977 the Greiffenfels and Rotenfels were sold to Pakistan for demolition, which began there on October 5th. The sister ship Argenfels followed this route in January / February 1978.
DDG "Hansa" -ships of the type "Hansa C"
| Surname | Shipyard | GRT tdw |
Launched in service |
further fate |
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Greiffenfels (2) |
Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw M. Amsterdam, BauNr. 349 |
6345 9730 |
April 15, 1944 June 29, 1946 |
1946 Netherlands: Nijmegen , May 17, 1950 DDG "Hansa": Greiffenfels , 1961 conversion to a motor ship (6312 BRT / 9659 tdw / 13.25 kn), scrapped in 1977; |
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Axenfels (3) |
van der Giessen & Zonen Krimpen / Yssel, BauNr. 712 |
6258 9670 |
6/28/1944 === |
Scrapped in 1947; |
|
Gutenfels (4) |
Nederlandsche Dok en Scheepsbouw M. Amsterdam, BauNr. 121 |
6259 10.141 |
15.07.1944 03.17.1948 |
completed as a motor ship Helsum in the Netherlands, 1962: Lebanon: Antonis , 1979 demolished; |
|
Frankenfels (2) |
Nederlandsche Dok en Scheepsbouw M. Amsterdam, BauNr. 122 |
6482 9611 |
15.07.1944 06.10.1948 |
completed as a motor ship Albireo in the Netherlands, 1963: Procyon , 1966 Liberia: Minoutsi , 1971 Cyprus, 1978: Lasia , 1980 demolition; |
|
Argenfels (3) |
Wilton-Fijenoord Schiedam, building no. 712 |
6345 9730 |
07/28/1944 07/12/1950 |
Completed in Germany for DDG "Hansa", 1961 conversion to a motor ship (8162 BRT / 10,277 tdw / 13.25 kn), scrapped in 1977; |
|
Crostafels (2) |
Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij Rotterdam, building no. 271 |
6215 9631 |
11/21/1944 08/1949 |
completed as a motor ship Srbiya in the Netherlands for Yugoslavia, 1949: Srbiya , demolished in 1981; |
|
Rotenfels (3) |
Flender-Werke Lübeck, building no. 347 |
6113 9852 |
17.11.1945 08.05.1947 |
planned as Black Forest for Hapag , completed in Germany for Great Britain as Empire Nene , 1954 Liberia: Mariposa , bought by DDG "Hansa" in 1956: Rotenfels , 1961 conversion to a motor ship (8212 GRT / 10,973 tdw / 13.25 kn), scrapped in 1977 ; |
Web links
- The second Greiffenfels 1950–1977 on ddghansa
- The third Argenfels 1950–1977
- The third Rotenfels 1956–1977
literature
- Hans Georg Prager: DDG Hansa - from liner service to special shipping , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1976, ISBN = 3-7822-0105-1