Hammonia class

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Steamship Frisia of the Hammonia class around 1880/1890

The Hammonia class is a class of ships used by the HAPAG shipping company in the North Atlantic service from 1866 . Between 1866 and 1874 a total of eleven ships of this class were put into service. Together with the somewhat smaller ships Germania (1863, 2123 BRT) and Alemannia (1865, 2665 BRT), these ships formed the second generation of HAPAG steamers. From 1865, they enabled the shipping company to run a weekly service between Hamburg and New York between May and October instead of the previous fortnightly service. The eleven Hammonia- class ships were all built at the Caird & Company shipyard in Greenock . Structurally, the steamers differed from the previous HAPAG ships in the straight bow shape and the number of masts. Since the sails only played a subordinate role in the ships of the Hammonia class, the number of masts could be reduced to two.

Hammonia class ships

Launched
in service		 Surname tonnage length fate
December
8, 1866 February 15, 1867		 Hammonia 3035 GRT 103.6 m 1878 sold to Dobroflot (russ .: Dobroflot, флот Добровольный, Доброфлот), renamed the Moscow River , on June 6, 1882 by stranding at Cape Guardafui lost
01/21/1867
03/29/1867		 Cimbria 3025 GRT 100.93 m 19 January 1883 sunk after a collision off Borkum , 437 dead
March
9, 1868 May 28, 1868		 Holsatia 3134 GRT 103.45 m 1878 sold to the Russian Volunteer Fleet, renamed Rossija , later Dnstr , 1910 out of service, sunk in 1916 as a jetty off Trebizond
March
9, 1868 May 28, 1868		 Westphalia 3,158 GRT 103.45 m 1875–79 reconstruction, now two chimneys, sold to Great Britain in 1887, renamed Atlantica , renamed to Italy in 1890 as Povincia de Sao Paulo , Mentana , Sud America , scrapped in 1901
04/14/1869
05/13/1869		 Silesia 3142 GRT 103.62 m Sold to Great Britain in 1887, renamed Pacifica , sold to Italy in 1890, renamed Citta de Napoli , Montevideo , lost to stranding in 1899
May
18, 1870 August 8, 1870		 Thuringia 3133 GRT 106.74 m 1878 sold to Russian Volunteer Fleet, renamed St. Petersburg , later different names, still available in 1941
12/24/1870
03/1871		 Germania 2877 GRT 100.53 m Accumulated and sunk off Bahia on August 10, 1876
April
22, 1871 June 9, 1871		 Vandalia 2810 GRT 100.8 m Sold to Hamburger Hansa Linie in 1884, renamed Kehrwieder , returned to Hapag in 1892, renamed Polonia in 1895 , canceled in 1897
March
30, 1872 July 1, 1872		 Frisia 3556 GRT 106.77 m Sold to Great Britain in 1887, renamed Temerario , later Arno , canceled in 1902
March
30, 1872 July 1, 1872		 Pommerania 3382 GRT 109.94 m Sunk after a collision off Dover on November 26, 1878, 48 dead
01.06.1874
10.10.1874		 Suevia 3609 GRT 110.09 m Launched in 1894, sold to France in 1896 and renamed Quatre Amis , canceled in 1898 after being stranded

literature

  • Arnold Kludas : The history of German passenger shipping - Volume I: The pioneering years from 1850 to 1890 , 1986, Ernst Kabel Verlag GmbH, Hamburg
  • Arnold Kludas: The history of the Hapag ships - Volume 1: 1847–1900 , 1986, Hauschild Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89757-341-3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Kludas: German ocean passenger ships 1850 to 1895 . transpress, 1983, p. 25 .
  2. ↑ http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=3798&vessel=HOLSATIA