Holm (ship)
 The spar
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The spar was a combination ship , which the Hamburg-American Packet Actien-Society (Hapag) in 1926 through the acquisition of about Stinnes belonging Danziger shipping company Artus received. The ship, built in England, was launched in 1902 as the Badenia for Hapag and was in service until delivery in 1919.
The ship, which was used before the war as an emigration ship to the USA, a freighter on various lines and as a troop transport during the World War, was used as an inexpensive passenger ship to South America from 1922 and sold for demolition at the end of 1929.
history
The Badenia was a bargain purchase in 1902 and was assigned to the series of small B-steamers that Hapag had built at British shipyards. It differed from these by the existing tween deck equipment for up to 1500 passengers. It was bought under construction by the shipping company Furness, Withy & Co., who had it built in their own shipyard.
The 6416 GRT ship made its maiden voyage from Hamburg to Boston on October 22, 1902. In the following years she was also used at other US ports. From 1904 the ship was only used as a freighter. New measurements in 1909 and 1911 after changes resulted in a ship size of 7482 GRT and 6930 GRT, respectively. After 1907, it is said to have also made trips to West Africa after Hapag entered into a joint venture with Woermann-Linie .
War effort and delivery
At the beginning of the war in 1914, the Badenia was at home and was not used as a troop transport until 1917. As "Transporter 9" she was one of the ships used to occupy the Baltic islands . Then she was used again in March 1918 as a troop transport for the transfer of the Baltic Division to Finland .
After the German surrender in 1918, the ship transported prisoners of war who were repatriated on several trips. On August 20, 1919, the Badenia was transferred from Hamburg to Leith to be delivered to Great Britain. There the Holt-Linie managed the ship and used it primarily for war-related transports to India and Australia. The ship transported Chinese who had been employed as workers on the Entente side back to Tsingtau.
Buyback and South American service
In 1922, the Stinnes shipping company bought Badenia and handed it over to the Danzig subsidiary Artus. They had the ship converted into an inexpensive passenger ship for their South American service and named it Holm . With a II. And III. Class and still considerable freight capacities were used alongside the Artus (1924, 9165 GRT) and the Hamburg-based General Belgrano (ex Bahia Castillo , 1913, 10056 GRT).
When, at the end of 1926, Hapag with the Deutsch-Austral and Kosmos lines also took over the overseas department of the Stinnes shipping company and the shipping company Artus, the three ships, along with three state-class ships ( Baden , Bavaria , Württemberg ), continued to South America in La Plata Service used.
When Hapag had better ship material available (such as the new motor ship General Osorio ), the Holm was taken out of line service at the end of 1929 and sold to Harburg to be scrapped.
The small B steamers from Hapag
| in service | Surname | tonnage | shipyard | fate |
| 1898 | Bengalia | 7661 GRT | Alexander Stephen | like Badenia bought Furness under construction, January 18, 1905 stranded off Tamatave / Madagascar with a load of coal for the Russian fleet |
| 1898 | Bethania | 7548 GRT | Alexander Stephen | at the outbreak of war in Tenerife in 1914 , coal ship of the auxiliary cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Große and on August 26th when it was sunk by the HMS Highflyer off Rio de Oro, with the crew of the auxiliary cruiser on the way to the USA on September 7th 300 nm off Cape Hatteras from the HMS Essex hijacked in British service as a Parisian , later Esther dollar , Chief Skidegate and Taihoku Maru , in October 1944 by the US submarine Drum sunk |
| 1899 | Bosnia | 7,436 GRT | Palmers | like Badenia bought Furness under construction, converted to emigration ship 9683 BRT in 1907, workshop ship of the Imperial Navy in 1914, delivered in 1919, in British service as Frangestan , burned out on April 2, 1924 in the Red Sea |
| 1899 | Brisgravia | 6793 GRT | Workman, Clark | Delivered in 1919, in French service as Arkansas at CGT , sold for demolition in 1934 |
| 1900 | Belgia (II) | 7507 GRT | ??? | 1904 Sold to Russia when Irtysh sank off the Japanese coast after the Battle of Tsushima on May 28, 1905 |
literature
- Carl Herbert: War voyages of German merchant ships . Broschek & Co, Hamburg 1934.
- Arnold Kludas: The History of German Passenger Shipping Volume II Expansion on All Seas 1890 to 1900 , Writings of the German Shipping Museum, Volume 19
- Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping Volume IV Destruction and Rebirth 1914 to 1930 , Writings of the German Shipping Museum, Volume 21
- Claus Rothe: German ocean passenger ships. 1896 to 1918 . Steiger Verlag, Moers 1986, ISBN 3-921564-80-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Kludas, Vol. II, p. 89
- ↑ a b c Rothe, p. 123, which names Baltimore as the destination of the maiden voyage
- ↑ Herbert, p. 144ff.
- ↑ Herbert, p. 148f.
- ^ Report by the engineer Johann Winter employed in Tsingtau
- ↑ Kludas, Vol. IV, p. 180
- ^ Kludas, Vol. IV, p. 178
- ↑ End of Bengalia on wrecksite
- ↑ sinking of the former Betania on wrecksite
- ↑ Loss of Frangestan on wrecksite
- ↑ History of Arkansas ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on frenchlines
- ↑ Fall of the Irtysh on wreck site
