Hertha (ship, 1892)

Hertha

Ship data flag  German Empire other ship names Sparrowhawk Ship type Passenger ship Callsign DJOV home port Stralsund , Kiel (last) Owner Staude, Stralsund Shipyard Joh. Lange, Grohn Launch 1892 Whereabouts canceled around 1953

Ship dimensions and crew length 30.19 m ( Lüa ) width 6 m measurement 108.43 GRT   crew 7th

Machine system machine 1 compound steam engine Machine performance 250 PS (184 kW) Top speed 12.5 kn (23 km / h) propeller 1

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 217 (Boddenfahrt) 178 (at sea)

The Hertha was a German passenger steamship .

Technical specifications

The steamer ran in 1892 at Joh. Lange in Grohn at Vegesack as Sperber from the stack . The Hertha , 30 meters long and 6 meters wide, measured at 108 GRT , was powered by a compound steam engine. With an output of 250 hp, it reached a speed of 12.5 knots with a propeller . She had a crew of 7 and was able to take 217 passengers on board when sailing in Bodden waters and 178 passengers when sailing in the Baltic Sea.

history

The royal government of Schleswig used the sparrowhawks , whose home port was Sønderborg , as a buoyancy and tour steamship until 1914. In August 1914, the Imperial Navy converted it into an auxiliary hospital ship. However, she was used as an auxiliary stray ship in the Baltic Sea from the following month .

A Stralsund shipowner acquired the ship, renamed Hertha , in July 1919 . He used it both as a tug and salvage ship and as an excursion and passenger liner. On August 2, 1929, Alfred Staude, freight forwarder and shipowner from Stralsund, bought Hertha . In the summer months it was used for passenger trips to Zingst and Prerow , around Rügen , to Møns Klint , the steep coast of the Danish island of Møn , and on the coast of Western Pomerania to Rügenwaldermünde . In the rest of the time, she was still used in towing and rescue services.

The Navy said the Hertha from September 1939, the third Hafenschutzflottille and sat it in 1945 as a tug at the 3rd mines clearing, the fourth group.

From December 1940 Margarete Staude, née Kellermann, was the owner of the ship by inheritance. She received the ship, which was in Kiel at that time , only around 1947. Until 1948 it was still entered in the shipping register of the Soviet occupation zone . Registered with Germanischer Lloyd , the Staude company, Stralsund, was named as the owner until the ship was demolished, with its last home port in Kiel around 1953.

literature

• Claus Rothe: German seaside ships. 1830 to 1939. In: Library of Ship Types. transpress publishing house for transport, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-344-00393-3 , pp. 57–59.