Itzehoe (ship, 1899)
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The Itzehoe of the German-Australian Steamship Company (DADG) was a freighter completed in 1899 by the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft . It was one of a series of twelve freighters made by the shipyard for the DADG, which stood out due to two narrow, closely spaced chimneys.
In May 1911 the Itzehoe ran on rocks at Cap Recife near Port Elizabeth . The stranded ship could not be removed, but a considerable part of the cargo could be recovered. Today the wreck is a popular diving destination.
history
The Itzehoe was completed under construction number 187 in September 1899 as the sixth ship of the Meissen class after the Meissen (1897), Elbing , Bielefeld , Varzin (1898) and Harburg . The ship was named after the Holstein district town of Itzehoe , the birthplace of Robert M. Sloman, d. J. , one of the founders of the DADG.
The Meissen- class ships built by the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft were considerably larger than the original equipment of the DADG and better tailored to the freight possibilities in the Australian traffic. With their black hulls and the two closely spaced chimneys, they shaped the reputation of society in Australia as "the black Germans" in contrast to the mail steamers of the NDL , which were painted a light tropical color . The two boiler rooms of the ships between 4500 and 5100 GRT each had their own chimney, which should enable a higher speed. The keel , delivered in 1900, is said to have reached a speed of 14 knots .
On October 1, 1899, the Itzehoe left Hamburg on her maiden voyage via Antwerp to Australia. The ship reached Cape Town on October 30, 1899 . The following day the voyage continued to Port Elizabeth and then from November 4th to 24th through the Indian Ocean to Port Phillip . After taking up the load, the Itzehoe then ran back home as planned on the northern route through the Red Sea , the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea and arrived back in Hamburg on March 12, 1900.
The Itzehoe made her second voyage on Line 2 of the shipping company, which has existed since 1898. The DADG freighters used this to transport their cargo to South Africa, Australia and Java on their departure . In Port Adelaide the ships took over cargo to Europe (mainly ore), but also cargo to Java and Malaya . In particular on Java, further freight was then taken over to Europe. The Itzehoe took on her first trip on this route in Port Adelaide silver for the Netherlands and Germany and flour, butter, soap, apples, brandy and other Australian export article of the Dutch East Indies .
On its third voyage, the Itzehoe first called at Brisbane , where the DADG opened its third line in 1900 with the old Stassfurt (1891, 3231 BRT). She arrived there on November 26th and unloaded 1,500 tons of general cargo and a large amount of explosives. She took over 1000 tons of coal and a larger load of meat and ran on to Java on November 28th. One day after her, her sister ship Bielefeld (1898, 5186 BRT) had arrived, loaded the wool to London and left almost at the same time as the Itzehoe .
The Itzehoe remained in use on the lines of the DADG. In August 1904 it caught fire in Hamburg while unloading and was damaged. They and their sister ships remained important ships for the shipping company until, from 1905, the shipping company also started up ships with cooling systems, which all newbuildings were equipped with from 1911.
In December 1910 the sighted Itzehoe when leaving in the Bay of Biscay the Hapag steamer Swakopmund (1903, 5638 BRT), which drove just six days after rudder loss, and took it in tow. With difficulty, the Itzehoe managed to tow the West Africa steamer back to the English Channel , where tugs took over the damaged vessel and brought it to Plymouth . The Itzehoe then seems to have broken off her departure.
The End
The Itzehoe's last voyage began on April 19, 1911 in Hamburg and was to lead via Antwerp to Brisbane. When calling at Algoa Bay in South Africa, the ship ran onto a reef off Cape Recife on May 25, 1911 ( 34 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 25 ° 43 ′ 2 ″ E, ). The ship lay with the entire fore section on the reef, had considerable damage to the ship's bottom and forepeak, and the two forward cargo holds were largely under water. A tug sent to help could not tow the ship free. The efforts of the shipping company concentrated on rescuing the cargo, of which 2200 t could be salvaged in good condition. So in June the sister ship Rostock and the Goslar , in July on her maiden voyage, the new Fremantle and in August the Oberhausen still brought parts of the cargo to Australia. In addition to the low prospect of saving the ship, the concentration on the cargo was due to commercial reasons. Their value was over £ 100,000 while the value of the ship was only £ 35,000. In 1912, the DADG then sold the ship and the remaining cargo for demolition on site.
The total loss of the Itzehoe was the shipping company's fifth after the losses of the Erlangen (1889, 2750 BRT) in 1894, the Solingen (1889, 2875 BRT) in 1904 and the Itzehoe's sister ship , the Laeisz (1901, 5157 BRT) in 1908 and the loss of the Bergedorf (1900, 5125 GRT), which was stranded on the journey home on April 4, 1911 at Cape Cormorin on the southern tip of India and could not be removed.
literature
- Otto J. Seiler: Australienfahrt , Verlag ESMittler & Sohn, Herford 1988, ISBN 3-8132-0270-4 .
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Seiler, p. 59
- ↑ Seiler, p. 59
- ↑ Seiler, p. 58
- ↑ Seiler, p. 60
- ^ Our Trade with Java
- ↑ Seiler, p. 58
- ^ Fire on the Itzehoe
- ↑ A liner adrift - towed to safety
- ↑ SS Itzehoe ashore S.S. Itzehoe on the rocks
- ↑ salving of the cargo
- ↑ Itzehoe's insurance
- ↑ To be sold
- ↑ Wreck at the Maldive Islands. The German-Australian Liner Erlangen
- ↑ The Solingen wrecked - an old australian trader ( 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.
- ↑ Steamer Laeisz founders in the Red Sea
- ↑ The Bergedorf her back broken
