Amasis (ship, 1923)
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The Amasis was a German cargo ship .
The Amasis , the third ship with this name, was completed in April 1923 as the third cargo ship of the Ammon class from the Bremer Vulkan shipyard for the Deutsche Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft Kosmos (DDG Kosmos). She joined Hapag in 1926 through the merger of the shipping companies . In September / October 1939, the Amasis of Las Palmas made its breakthrough home via Norway.
On April 9, 1940, the Amasis was attacked by the British submarine HMS Sunfish with two torpedoes and sunk off Lysekil in the Skagerrak .
History of construction and use
The third Amasis of DDG Kosmos was the shipping company's sixth new building after the First World War, which merged into Hapag in 1926. She belonged to the Ammon class, of which the Bremer Vulkan had previously delivered the type ship and the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft had delivered the Itauri . With the Menes and the Karnak , two more similar ships with a larger passenger facility were delivered to shipyards in 1926 shortly after the merger, so that this type of ship became the most numerous of the DDG Kosmos, which only ordered eleven newbuildings after the World War. The ships were conventional freighters with two masts, which were used in the traditional service of the shipping company to the west coast of South America, which, however, was now primarily handled through the Panama Canal . They had a triple expansion engine of 3000 hp and had a service speed of twelve knots. Up to 18 passengers (27 or 31 on the later buildings) could travel on the steamers.
In May 1923 the Amasis in Hamburg began her maiden voyage to Chile . From November 26, 1926, it became part of Hapag through a merger and remained in the traditional shipping area until 1938. However, until the early thirties, Hapag and DDG Kosmos still acted as two shipping companies in the German joint service to the American west coast, which also included the Roland line , which was also taken over by NDL in 1926 . However, both the Kosmos, Stinnes and Hapag ships sailed in both plans. The Kosmos plan for September 1930 to January 1931 names only four former Kosmos steamers with the pre-war ships Rhodopis and Nitokris and the newbuildings Ammon and Karnak for 10 departures with passengers . The remaining departures were made with former Stinnes and Hapag ships. Itauri and the Amasis can also be found on the Hapag departures . The latter was used on the main line from Hamburg via Bremen, Antwerp, Cristóbal ( Panama ), Buenaventura , Callao , Mollendo ( Peru ), Arica , Iquique and Antofagasta to Valparaíso . In June 1931, the drive system in Hamburg was rebuilt and supplemented by an exhaust steam turbine , so that the total output rose to 4000 PSi and the service speed was increased to 12.5 kn. On her last pre-war voyage, the Amasis left Rosario on July 29 and Montevideo on August 5 for Trieste . On the 23rd she left São Vicente (Cape Verde) after adding more coal and fresh water and two days later received the radio message about the impending outbreak of war. She then called on Las Palmas, where another 400 tons of coal and fresh water were taken over and on the 30th the journey to Trieste was continued. After 18 hours of driving, however, the Amasis turned around and called again in Las Palmas.
Breach of blockage
In the first weeks of September, the maize load of 1550 t was sold to the Spanish authorities and another 585 t of coal was taken over from the Hamburg-Süd steamer Corrientes (1921, 4665 GRT, 1944 sold to Spain). Shortly after midnight on September 24, 1939 left the Amasis with the steamer Chemnitz (1929, 5522 BRT, on 28 September by French submarine Poncelet hijacked) Gran Canaria , reached by the North Atlantic and the Denmark Strait on October 12, mountains and met on the 18th in Hamburg.
The fall of the Amasis
On the evening of April 9, 1940, on the way from Stettin to Oslo , the Amasis was attacked by the British submarine HMS Sunfish with two torpedoes off Lysekil in the Skagerrak and sunk at 58 ° 13 ' N , 11 ° 13' E. The attack is said to have occurred within Swedish territorial waters. There is uncertainty about the cargo on the ship.
| Fate of the sister ships | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Shipyard | GRT | Launch | in service | further fate |
| Ammon | Bremer Vulkan BauNr. 608 |
5170 7134 |
August 5, 1922 | 10/30/1922 | 1932 exhaust steam turbine, 1939 navy, sunk on January 17, 1945 in a bomb attack in Hamburg |
| Itauri | FSG construction no. 363 |
6838 | October 18, 1922 | 02/25/1923 | Sunk by British carrier aircraft south of Bodø on April 26, 1944 |
| Menes | Bremer Vulkan BauNr. 637 |
5609 | 10/22/1926 | 11/24/1926 | September 1939 in Messina , sank on December 3, 1942 after being hit by a mine off the Libyan coast (Crete?) |
| Karnak | FSG construction no. 370 |
7209 | September 15, 1926 | December 5, 1926 | September 1939 in Vigo , as Hermes voyage to South America, on march back on July 10, 1941 in the South Atlantic 300 nm northwest of St. Paul self- sunk after the auxiliary cruiser AMC Canton had placed them |
Individual evidence
literature
- Jochen Brennecke : Black ships, wide seas - The mysterious journeys of German blockade breakers. 4th edition, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-453-00103-6
- Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping. , Volume 4: Destruction and Rebirth 1914 to 1930. 1989, ISBN 3-8225-0047-X . (Writings of the German Maritime Museum, Volume 21)
Web links
- DDG Kosmos fleet list (English) accessed August 26, 2013
- Amasis sinking accessed August 26, 2013