Marienburg (ship, 1894)
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The Marienburg was the first of two additional buildings for the South America service of the German steam shipping company "Hansa" , which were delivered by the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft in 1894. The shipyard had also built three ships of the previous Wartburg class .
The Marienburg was separated from the DDG "Hansa" in 1904 and sold with its sister ship Harzburg to the shipping company F. Laeisz in Hamburg for service with the German Levante Line (DLL).
Renamed Kybros , the ship remained in service with the DLL until 1919, as it was at home when the war began. The relatively old ship was only formally delivered.
In August 1921, the Hamburg shipping company M. Sloman jr. the ship and brought it back on the road as Almeria . In 1925 it was sold to Italy, where it was used as the Fedelta until it was demolished in 1933 .
Building history
With the six Wartburg class ships delivered between 1889 and 1891 , the DDG “Hansa” started a liner service to the Río de la Plata . The success of this line led to the order of two additional ships for this service from the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft as early as 1892. These ships were also rigged as barquentines in the event of an engine failure and were only slightly larger than the Wartburg- class ships previously delivered .
The Marienburg , the model ship of the series, launched on December 12, 1893 , was 88.74 m long and 12.15 m wide. A triple expansion machine delivered by the shipyard delivered 1200 PSi and gave the ship a speed of 10 knots.
The Marienburg , measured at 2296 GRT , was delivered to the DDG "Hansa" on December 18, 1894. The sister ship Harzburg followed in early March.
Mission history
The Marienburg and its sister ship remained in use on their main route for almost ten years. At the beginning of 1904, both ships were sold to the Hamburg shipping company F. Laeisz , which made them available to the German Levante Line and sold them to DLL on January 19, 1906.
Both ships were renamed Kybros and Naxos after their sale . As the Kybros of the DLL, the former Marienburg was at home when the First World War broke out , where it was used as an ore and coal transporter. Even after the war ended, the ship remained in Germany and was only formally delivered.
On August 4, 1921, the Hamburg shipping company bought Rob. M. Sloman Jr. the Cybros and got them going again as Almeria .
On August 3, 1925, the ship was sold to Italy and was in service there as Fidelta with its home port of Genoa until it was demolished in September 1933 .
The sister ship Harzburg
The second supplementary building for the South America service of the DDG "Hansa" was also built under construction number 144 at the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft. When Harzburg was launched on December 12, 1893, it came into service with the shipping company on January 18, 1894. When it was sold in 1904, it was renamed Naxos . When war broke out in 1914, she sought refuge in Lisbon .
After the seizure by the Portuguese government, the former Harzburg was used as Aveiro by the state shipping company "Transport Maritime Do Estado". On April 10, 1918, the cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Ionian Sea by UB 53 at 36 ° 24 'N, 18 ° 06' E.
literature
- Hans-Georg Prager: DDG Hansa. From liner service to special shipping , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hardcore 1990, ISBN 3-7822-0105-1
- Reinhardt Schmelzkopf: Die deutsche Handelsschifffahrt 1919–1939 , Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg, ISBN 3 7979 1847 X
- Hans Jürgen Witthöft: Levante course. German line trip to the Eastern Mediterranean , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1989, ISBN 3-7822-0454-9
Web links
- Dieter Kokot: Marienburg - An order castle as namesake. Six ship stories. In: The West Prussian . Landsmannschaft West Prussia, July 2017, accessed on July 8, 2017 .
- The Marienburg
- The Harzburg