Abana (ship)
 The Abana
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The Abana of Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) was the shipping company's first new building for the Levante service. She and her sister ship Agira were characterized by a Maierform spoon bow. When the shipping areas of the Deutsche Reederei were unbundled and reorganized, the ships remained with NDL and were renamed Inn and Spree .
After the outbreak of World War II , the Inn, southwest of the Canary Islands, was stopped by the British cruiser Neptune on September 5, 1939 and sunk after taking over the crew.
History of the ship
With the Abana and its sister ship Agira , the Bremen-based shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd received newbuildings for the first time in 1929 for its Levante service, which had existed since 1906 and was operated as a joint service with the Deutsche Levante-Linie (DLL) and for which the NDL initially ships from DLL, such as the Therapia , took over. In the period that followed, mainly older ships from other lines were put into service.
By integrating the fleets of the subsidiaries from the mid-twenties, post-war buildings with typical names for the trade area such as the Yalta and Pera (ex Horncap , Hornsund ) of the Dampfschiffs-Rhederei Horn AG, the Angora , Achaia and Athena der Roland were also included in this service Line or the Aegina , Arta , Attika and Anatolia of the steam shipping company Argo , all ships with over 2,000 GRT, 4,000 tdw and 9 kn speed. In 1928, the NDL followed for the first time two orders for new buildings for these lines.
Both orders went to AG Weser in Bremen. These were small steamships with a deadweight of 4,000 t with a chimney and two masts. The hulls clearly showed the use of Maier form principles. The first ship on the contract with hull number 880 was launched in November 1929. It was named Abana after a Turkish city on the Black Sea coast in the northern Turkish province of Kastamonu . The sister ship that followed on December 10, 1929 was named Agira after a town in the province of Enna / Sicily . Both ships were 93.58 m long and 14.04 m wide. Driven by a triple expansion machine with an exhaust turbine with a total output of 1,400 PSi, the steamers operated by a crew of 28 could run 10.5 knots. The bridge structure provided space for eight, later even twelve, passengers. The two ships were measured with 2,867 GRT and had a deadweight of 4,070 dwt.
Calls
The Abana , which was delivered on December 30, 1929 , was initially used on the Levant Line with her sister ship. The new ships proved their worth and NDL ordered an enlarged version as Cairo and Sofia as early as 1933 . The unbundling of the shipping companies and their shipping areas, operated by the state since 1932, and the recognizable tendency to distribute the fleets led to a concentration of the newbuildings on the lines that the NDL believed to keep.
From 1934, the two new buildings were primarily used from Bremen to Central America. After the trading areas were divided, they stayed with the NDL and were given new names in 1936 after German rivers with the Inn and Spree . In addition to the Central America service, the ships also went to North and Central Brazil. In this remaining shipping area, the newer river-class motor cargo ships developed from the Abana were mainly used.
The end of the Inn
The use of the Inn ended on September 5, 1939, when she was captured 400 nautical miles (740 km) southwest of the Canary Islands from Pará by the British cruiser Neptune . After taking over the crew, the British sank the steamer Inn (ex Abana ).
literature
- Roger Jordan: The World's Merchant Fleets 1939 , Annapolis 2006, ISBN 1-5911-4959-2
- Arnold Kludas : Die Seeschiffe des Norddeutscher Lloyd 1920 to 1970 , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1992, ISBN 3-7822-0534-0
- Reinhardt Schmelzkopf: Die deutsche Handelsschiffahrt 1919-1939 , Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1974, ISBN 3-7979-1847-X .