Queen Luise (ship, 1897)

Queen Luise

Ship data flag  German Empire United Kingdom Greece     other ship names Omar Edison Ship type Reichspostdampfer passenger ship home port Bremen Owner North German Lloyd Shipyard AG Vulcan Szczecin Build number 232 Launch October 17, 1896 Commissioning March 16, 1897 Whereabouts Scrapped in 1935

Ship dimensions and crew length 166.30 m ( Lüa ) 159.43 m ( Lpp ) width 18.31 m Draft Max. 10.6 m measurement 10,566 GRT   crew 226 men

Machine system machine 2 triple expansion machines Machine performance 7000 hp Top speed 15 kn (28 km / h) propeller 2

Transport capacities Load capacity 11,100 dw Permitted number of passengers 148 1st class 138 2nd class 1940 tween deck (not as RPD)

The Reichspostdampfer Königin Luise came into service as the third ship of the Barbarossa class for the Reichspostdampferlinie of North German Lloyd to Australia. The Queen Louise was delivered in 1919 and ran until 1932 under British and Greek flag.

Use of NDL

After commissioning on March 16, 1897, Queen Luise , which cost 4.94 million gold marks , began her maiden voyage to New York on March 26, 1897 , where she was the first ship of the Barbarossa class to call at. In the course of the years she made eleven trips from Bremerhaven to New York and three trips from March 1912 to Baltimore. Queen Luise was first used on the imperial post steamer line to Australia on October 20, 1897. She made a total of ten round trips on her "construction route", the last one began on October 25, 1911. From February 25, 1904 to November 25, 1911, Queen Luise was also used on the New York - Genoa line. From 1903 to 1914, the NDL gradually used five ships of the Barbarossa class on this line . In 1913, Queen Luise is said to have carried out the transport for the soldiers deployed in Tsingtau.

Use after the First World War

After the First World War , Queen Luise was delivered to Great Britain on April 10, 1919 as reparations and was used for the Orient Shipping Company . On September 8, 1920 she ran from London for the first time under the British flag to Australia . On this voyage, Queen Luise had a collision with the British steamer Loughborough in Lisbon , which sank. In 1921 it was renamed Omar .

The Byron Steamship Company , British subsidiary of a Greek shipping company that had been using the sister ship Bremen as Constantinople in liner service between Constanza , Constantinople , Piraeus and New York since February 1921 , bought the Omar in 1924 and operated it as Edison between Piraeus and New York from October 1924 York a.

The ships were used as the Greek national line and came under the Greek flag in August 1928. On December 29, 1932, the former Queen Luise left New York for the last time as Edison . It was then issued in Greece and canceled in Italy from 1935.

literature

• Noel RP Bonsor: North Atlantic Seaway. An illustrated History of the Passenger Services linking the old World with the new. Volume 2. Brookside Publications, St Brelade 1978, ISBN 0-905824-01-6 .
• Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping. Volume 2: Expansion on all seas 1890 to 1900. Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-8225-0038-0 ( writings of the German Maritime Museum 19).
• Arnold Kludas: The ships of the North German Lloyd. Volume 1: 1857 to 1919. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1991, ISBN 3-7822-0524-3 .
• Christine Reinke-Kunze: History of the Reichs-Post-Steamers. Connection between the continents 1886–1914. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1994, ISBN 3-7822-0618-5 .
• Claus Rothe: German ocean passenger ships. 1896 to 1918 . Steiger Verlag, Moers 1986, ISBN 3-921564-80-8 .

Web links

Commons : Queen Luise (ship, 1896)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

1. ^ [1] picture of Queen Luise
2. ^ [2] Postcard from Queen Luise
3. ↑ History of the National Greek Line - Byron SS Co.
4. ^ Picture of Edison 1927