Holstein (ship, 1911)
 The sister ship Atto as Hoogkerk
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The Holstein of Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL), completed in 1911 by the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft , was a single ship in its fleet when it was completed. However, the freighter had two sister ships, also built by FSG, on the Roland-Linie , which also commissioned two very similar cargo ships built by Bremer Vulkan in 1911. The Holstein was used in charter by the Roland Line and was in Iquique in 1914 , where she remained during the war.
In 1921 she was one of the ships of the NDL that did not have to be delivered to the victorious powers due to the Columbus Agreement . On September 29, 1921, she resumed service for the NDL. In 1937 Holstein was sold to Hamburg Süd .
In 1939, the ship, renamed Curityba , was able to return home from Brazil three weeks after the outbreak of war. Used as a transport in Norway, it was lost on April 29, 1942 near Vardø after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine.
History of the ship
The Holstein with hull number 306 was delivered on May 11, 1911 by the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) to Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) and was a single ship in its fleet when it was completed. In 1911, however, the FSG delivered two sister ships to the Roland Line , which is close to the NDL, under construction numbers 303 and 312 with the second Haimon and the Atto . In 1911 the Roland-Linie also procured two very similar cargo ships at Bremer Vulkan . The Holstein was chartered by the NDL to the Roland-Linie and made her maiden voyage to the west coast of South America. In 1914 the ship was in Chile and stayed in Iquique in northern Chile during the war . When the ship was occupied in September 1918, the ship's crew made the machine unusable, so that it had to be towed to Europe in 1920.
The relatively new cargo ship became the subject of the so-called Columbus Agreement between the Germans and the British in 1921. The German government and Norddeutsche Lloyd agreed to use their influence for the speedy completion of the steamer Columbus , which was originally under construction for the NDL near Schichau in Danzig , and to raise no legal concerns. In the meantime, Danzig no longer belonged to the German Reich and the transfer of the surrender regulations to buildings there was questionable. In return for these commitments, the British decided not to deliver six ships from the NDL that had spent the war in South America. These were the former Reichspost steamers Seydlitz (7942 BRT / 03) and Yorck (8901 BRT / 06), the Gotha (6653 BRT / 07) used for La Plata and the freighters Göttingen (5441 BRT / 07), Westphalia (5112 BRT / 05) and the Holstein as the newest ship. These six ships appeared to the NDL to be more important for the reconstruction of the shipping company than the large passenger ship.
After the repatriation and a major overhaul, the Holstein returned to service with the NDL on September 29, 1921 on the route to South America. From 1927, two of the freighters built in 1911 for the Roland-Linie with Haimon built in Flensburg and the Berengar built near Bremer Vulkan , which NDL had bought from Great Britain and which were given their original names again , were used in addition to her . A Haimon (ex Antonina , 1898 Blohm & Voss , 3810 BRT) that existed after the takeover of the Roland line in 1926 was renamed Ancona and sold to Brazil in 1927.
The state reorganization of the German shipping companies and their shipping areas led to a reduction in South American traffic of the NDL. The NDL had to hand over the combined ships Antonio Delfino and Cap Norte , which had already been renamed by the NDL in 1932, and ten mostly older freighters to Hamburg-Süd. So the Holstein and the Berengar were also given charter to Hamburg-Süd, but initially remained registered in Bremen while the Haimon was scrapped. In 1937 the given ships were renamed.
On October 4, 1937, Holstein became Curityba, which was still located in Bremen until 1939, and became Hamburg-Süd, named after the capital of the Brazilian state of Paraná . The ship on its way back from Rosario to Europe called at Pernambuco in August 1939 due to the warning . On September 21st, the ship left with a load of grain and numerous wild animals for Hagenbeck's zoo to reach home and arrived in Hamburg via Andenes on October 30th.
Use in war
In March 1940, the Curityba was used as a transporter of the 1st sea transport squadron for the planned occupation of Norway . On April 6, she left Stettin for Bergen . The following day the Curityba ran aground off Varberg , south of Gothenburg . The ship was not recovered until April 10th and towed to Oslo until April 11th , which she left again on the 15th. She was used as a transporter to Norway. In June there were slightly injuries on the ship in an air raid in Hamburg.
The Curityba was also intended for the Seelöwe company and was in Antwerp between September and November , where it was bombed. From August 1941 it was used again as a transporter to Norway.
Loss of Curityba
Secured by three submarine hunters, the Curityba was on a voyage from Kirkenes to Kiel with the Belpamela when she was ten nautical miles south of Vardø in the Varangerfjord on April 29, 1942 at 70 ° 7 ′ 30 ″ N , 30 ° 34 ′ 0 " O from Russian submarine M-171 was torpedoed and sunk with 22 fatalities. On board the Curityba were a fishing cutter that was to be unloaded in Vardø, and two former Norwegian auxiliary minesweepers, which had proven unsuitable for service on the polar coast and were to be transported to Bergen.
The sister ships of the Roland line
| Launched in service |
Surname | tonnage | B.No. | fate |
| 30.12.1910 21.02.1911 |
Haimon (2) | 4920 GRT | 303 | Delivered to Great Britain in March 1919: Quebec City from 1922 , bought by Norddeutscher Lloyd in February 1927, Haimon again , scrapped in Emden from August 1935 |
| 1911 9.1911 |
Atto | 5169 GRT | 312 | 1914 Antwerp, 1919 delivered to Great Britain: St. Augustine Abbey , 1921 to the Netherlands: Hoogkerk , 1945 stationary training ship Veteraan , scrapped in 1958 |
| 03/11/1911 04/13/1911 |
Berengar | 4845 GRT | Volcano 537 |
1914 to 1919 in Talcahuano , July 1921 delivered to Great Britain: from 1923 General Botha , bought by Norddeutscher Lloyd in March 1927, again Berengar , from 1934 in service with Hamburg-Süd , bought in 1937 and stranded in Petropolis , April 1945 in the Elbe after being hit by a bomb , canceled |
| .1911 .1911 |
Wiegand | 4849 GRT | volcano |
1914 to 1917 in Montevideo , confiscated by Uruguay in 1917 : Artigas , made available to the USA, sold to Greece in 1927: Elias G. Culucundis , Argentina from 1933 , canceled in 1934 |
literature
- Arnold Kludas: The ships of the North German Lloyd 1857 to 1919 . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 1991, ISBN 3-7822-0524-3 .
- Arnold Kludas: The ships of the North German Lloyd 1920 to 1970 . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1992, ISBN 3-7822-0534-0 .
- Arnold Kludas: The ships of Hamburg-Süd 1871 to 1951 . Gerhard Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg 1976, ISBN 3-7979-1875-5 .
- Reinhardt Schmelzkopf: German merchant shipping 1919–1939 . Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg, ISBN 3-7979-1847-X .
- Susanne and Klaus Wiborg: 1847–1997 Our field is the world. Hapag-Lloyd AG, 1997.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Kludas, NDL-Seeschiffe until 1919 p. 116.
- ↑ melt head, p. 40.
- ↑ a b Kludas, NDL-Seeschiffe from 1920 p. 70.
- ↑ Kludas, NDL-Seeschiffe from 1920 p. 36.
- ↑ Kludas, Hamburg-Süd, pp. 10, 88f ,, 109ff., 116ff.
- ↑ Het schip dat twee weeldoorlogen overleevde ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.9 MB) Dutch.
