King Friedrich August (ship)
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The twin screw steamer König Friedrich August was built in 1906 for the Hamburg - South America - passenger service of the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG). The ship was a sister ship of the Cap Vilano built for Hamburg Süd . Both shipping companies use two ships of this type each. In 1914, it was planned to sell the two Hamburg-Süd ships to HAPAG, which were to come into service with the prince's name.
King Friedrich August , who was delivered to Great Britain as reparation after the war , was used by the Canadian Pacific Line as Montreal from 1920 to 1925 and as Alesia by the French Fabre Line from 1928 to 1931 . In 1933 it was scrapped in Italy.
Service at HAPAG
The König Friedrich August was built by Blohm & Voss for HAPAG's Hamburg-South America service. She had a shallow draft and was well suited for sailing on the Río de la Plata . Her service speed was 15 knots and she could take up to 1,015 passengers.
The launch took place on July 4, 1906 and on October 16, 1906 it was handed over to HAPAG. On October 26th she began her maiden voyage to Buenos Aires . In addition to trips to South America, it was occasionally used on other routes. In April 1914, she was in Hamburg launched , where it remained the entire war period.
Post war fate
On March 27, 1919, she sailed from Hamburg to Southend-on-Sea, where the ship was then taken over as reparation by the Shipping Controller in London on April 2, and managed by the British shipping company Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company .
On November 6, 1920, the König Friedrich August was sold to the Canadian Pacific Line and overhauled. She was renamed as Montreal afterwards with 9,720 GRT and measured for 332 cabin passengers and 990 of the III. Class furnished. On June 1, 1921, her first journey began between Antwerp , Southampton , Quebec and Montreal . From August 1921 to May 1922 it was also used four times between Trieste , Naples , Quebec and Montreal. In 1923 it was overhauled again and afterwards only offered space for 229 cabin passengers and 240 of the III. Class.
On June 19, 1924, the Italian grain freighter Clara Camus rammed the Canadian Pacific Line's passenger steamer Metagama (12,450 GRT) on the starboard side in thick fog about 7 miles away from Cape Race on the Newfoundland coast . The Metagama was severely damaged and was unable to continue its voyage to Montreal. On the 20th, the Montreal took over the 650 passengers on the Metagama and brought them to Montreal.
In July it began service on the Canada - Liverpool line , but was launched in October 1925 in Gareloch , Scotland. In 1927 it made a few trips between Liverpool or Antwerp and Saint John (New Brunswick) before it was reissued in Southend.
In 1928 it was sold to the Fabre Line in Marseille , which renamed it Alesia in May and used it from Marseille to New York.
It was launched in 1931 and scrapped in Genoa from November 3, 1931 to 1933.
literature
- Noel RP Bonsor: North Atlantic Seaway. An illustrated History of the Passenger Services linking the old World with the new. Volume 3. Enlarged and completely revised edition. Brookside Publications, St. Brelade 1979, ISBN 0-905824-02-4 , p. 1315.
- Carl Herbert: War voyages of German merchant ships. Broschek & Co, Hamburg 1934.
- Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping. Volume 3: Rapid growth 1900 to 1914. Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-8225-0039-9 ( writings of the German Maritime Museum 20).
- Arnold Kludas : The ships of Hamburg-Süd. 1871-1951. Gerhard Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg et al. 1976, ISBN 3-7979-1875-5 .
- Claus Rothe: German ocean passenger ships. 1896 to 1918 . Steiger Verlag, Moers 1986, ISBN 3-921564-80-8 .