Hertha (ship, 1905)
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The Hertha was a German passenger steamship .
history
The Hertha , built on the Stettiner Oderwerke with construction number 547, was put into service on June 7, 1905 by the Stettiner steamship company JF Braeunlich . It was first used in the postal service on the Sassnitz - Trelleborg line , the forerunner of the so-called royal line , then from 1909 in the seaside service from Stettin and Swinoujscie to the seaside resorts on the east coast of Rügen .
The Imperial navy captured the on August 6, 1914 steamboat and had it first to the auxiliary hospital ship E rebuild. As such, however, it did not go into service, but, after renewed conversion, from September 1914 as an auxiliary mineship . After the First World War , the shipping company got its ship back and used it for sea service in East Prussia and for occasional trips to Bornholm and Copenhagen .
From October 1939, the Hertha was used in the service of the Navy as a living and target ship of the 25th and from 1943 the 23rd submarine flotilla.
After the end of the Second World War , she was delivered to Great Britain . As a reparation, she drove as Heimara (Χειμάρρα) under the Greek flag from 1946 and sank on January 19, 1947 in fog around 05:40 about one and a half hours after touching the side on the rocky reef of Derakotos northwest of the island of Parthenopi (Parthenopi: main island of the Verdougia Islands) in the south Gulf of Evia between Aghia Marina on Attica and Styra on Evia . There was a boiler explosion and power failure. In the accident, the largest in Greek shipping, more than 380 people died of the 544 passengers and 86 crew members. Only hours later did other ships arrive to help at the scene of the accident. Due to bad weather at Cavo Doro (southern tip of Evia), the captain had chosen the route from Saloniki to Piraeus through the Gulf of Evia via the port of Chalkis . (The British magazine Parade reported that the Heimara was sunk by a sea mine, which was later found to be incorrect.)
technology
Two triple expansion steam engines with a combined output of 2,600 hp drove two propellers . The ship thus reached a speed of 15 kn .
1,280 passengers could be accommodated.
literature
- Claus Rothe: German seaside ships. 1830 to 1939. In: Library of Ship Types. transpress publishing house for transport, Berlin 1989, p. 88, ISBN 3-344-00393-3 .
Web links
- The Hertha . In: Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved October 18, 2009 .
- S / S HERTHA. In: Facta om Fartyg. Retrieved October 18, 2009 (Swedish).
Footnotes
- ↑ Drama of the SS "Heimara" in the parade of February 1, 1947, p. 5