Coastal Service of the German East-Africa Line
The coastal service of the German East Africa Line on the African coast existed from 1890 to 1914.
history
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With the signing of the Reichspostdampfervertrag in 1890, the German East-Africa Line DOAL committed itself to also set up two coastlines for which two steamers over 500 GRT had to be built in Germany. The steamers of 595 GRT with space for 18 passengers ordered from Blohm & Voss were launched as Peters and Emin in 1891. The Emin was the end of 1893 with 30 people on board between South Africa and Mozambique lost. The Peters remained in service until it was sold at the beginning of 1903. In addition, an almost new steamship of 618 GRT was purchased in Great Britain in 1890 and used as Wissmann until 1898. The lines were not very successful, as the freight traffic with the traditional dhows was more effective and cheaper with the barely existing port facilities and the use of government steamers withdrew further freight and passengers from the ships on the branch lines.
In view of the Reichspostdampfer contract, which expired in 1900, the DOAL procured a coastal steamer that was better adapted to the actual conditions in 1899 with the first adjutant . In December 1899, the Joh.C. Tecklenborg delivered the 372 GRT ship with space for six passengers at the end of 1904 to the Woermann Line , which used it as President Barclay off the West African coast until the end of 1906 . The ship named after the Liberian President Arthur Barclay was sold to the Kunstmann shipping company in Stettin at the end of 1906. In 1912 the steamer was sold to Portugal, where it was lost as Lisboa in 1928 due to stranding.
In 1914 the coastal fleet of the German East Africa Line consisted of three large sea tugs / tenders, the steam lighter Martha of 314 GRT and the small cargo ship Hedwig of 571 GRT.
Coastal ships of the DOAL until 1914
| Surname | Shipyard | GRT | Length [m] |
Launch i. D. DOAL |
further fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wissmann | MacIlwaine # 39 |
618 | 54.5 | 20.02.1890 09.15.1890 |
Sold to Bombay in 1898, deleted in 1919 |
| Peters | Blohm & Voss No. 78 |
595 | 52.0 | 01/10/1891 02/11/1891 |
Sold January 1903, deleted from the Soviet Union in 1960 |
| Emin | Blohm & Voss No. 79 |
595 | 52.0 | 19.03.1891 2.05.1891 |
Lost on December 29, 1893 between Durban and Mozambique |
| Adjutant (1) | Tecklenborg No. 171 |
372 | 45.0 | 11/14/1899 12/1899 |
December 30, 1904 Woermann Line: President Barclay , sold in 1906, stranded in 1928 |
| Cadet | Janssen & Sch. No. 420 |
226 | 35.2 | 5.07.1902 14.08.1902 |
August 1914 to Beira, confiscated by Portugal in March 1916: Pebane , scrapped in 1937 |
| lieutenant |
Sachsenberg Deutz |
340 | 39.5 | 1912 October 1, 1912 |
Seized August 1914 to Beira, March 1916: Incomati , scrapped in 1963 |
| Lili |
HC Stülcken No. 275 |
251 | 36.3 | 1905 March 9, 1905 |
Motor light, sold to Portugal in 1909 without a drive |
| Martha |
Bremen volcano no.492 |
314 | 43.3 | 3.03.1906 04.1906 |
Steam lighter, 1914 Hulk |
| Hedwig | HC Stülcken No. 571 |
571 | 51.8 | 1913 04.1913 |
Engine and bridge aft, ran to meet the margrave on the way from India to Kenya in 1914 in order to divert her to Tanga ; last served the SMS Königsberg as a tender and was used to salvage useful artillery, on October 9, 1915 self-scuttling in Rufiji |
literature
- Arnold Kludas : The ships of the German Africa Lines 1880 to 1945. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, 1975, ISBN 3-7979-1867-4 .
- Arnold Kludas: The History of German Passenger Shipping. Volume III Rapid growth 1900 to 1914. Writings of the German Maritime Museum, Volume 20.
- Reinhard Karl Lochner: Fight in the Rufiji Delta. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-453-02420-6 .
- Christine Reinke-Kunze: The history of the Reichspostdampfer. Köhlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1994, ISBN 3-7822-0618-5 .