Cameroon (ship, 1938)
 The Goya in 1955
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The Cameroon was a German station wagon that was used by the Kriegsmarine as a workshop ship during the Second World War and then sailed as a Goya under the Norwegian flag from 1947 to 1961 . From March 1949 to the end of 1951 it was used as an emigrant ship on trips to Australia and New Zealand .
Combined ship Cameroon
The ship was on 17 May 1938 the shipyard number 753 on the shipyard Bremer Vulkan in Vegesack from the stack and was on 28 June 1938 at the Woermann Line delivered. It was a total of 133.7 meters (127.5 meters Lpp ) long, 17.9 meters wide and was measured at 4971 GRT on delivery . The diesel engine allowed a speed of 15.0 knots . The crew consisted of 45 men. The Cameroon , which was able to carry 12 passengers in addition to general cargo , was used together with the sister ship Togo in the liner service from Hamburg to West Africa .
Kriegsmarine workshop ship
On November 13, 1939, soon after the start of the Second World War, the Cameroon was requisitioned by the Navy and converted into a workshop ship. In 1940 she was put into service as workshop ship 2 and assigned to the U-Lehrdivision ( 21st submarine flotilla from July 1, 1940 ) in Pillau . In June 1941 she was relocated to Norway, where she was on duty until the end of the war, mainly maintenance and repair work on submarines , but also on the many smaller units of the navy operating there.
After the surrender of the Wehrmacht , the Cameroon drove in a convoy with four other ships and 15 submarines from Narvik to Trondheim on May 15, 1945 , where, together with other units, it was in the Lofjord , an eastern branch of the Åsenfjord and Trondheimfjord , interned by the British Royal Navy .
Emigrant ship Goya
The ship was taken over by the British Ministry of War Transport in November 1945, but then in 1946 as war compensation and replacement for the one seized by the German Wehrmacht in 1940 and torpedoed in the Baltic Sea during the evacuation of the German eastern provinces in 1945, Goya to Norway and the shipping company A / S J Ludwig Mowinckels Rederi in Bergen passed on. The new owners use it from 1947 as a cargo ship under the name Goya . In 1948/49 the shipping company received a contract with the IRO to transport so-called displaced persons from Europe to Australia and, since it had no passenger transport capacity until now, allowed the Goya to install berths for around 900 people in the former loading and workshop rooms in the Rebuilt into an emigrant ship in Kiel in spring 1949 . After this conversion, the ship was measured at 6996 GRT (3864 NRT).
In March 1949, the Goya drove with 907 emigrants on board for the first time from Genoa to Australia, where it arrived in Adelaide on May 2nd . Four more trips in 1949 led from Naples to Fremantle , to Sydney and to Melbourne . The first trip in 1950 was again from Naples to Melbourne. Then the Goya drove three times from Bremerhaven to Melbourne and Newcastle . The first of these voyages began on April 17, 1950. On the return voyage, the ship picked up Dutch refugees in Indonesia , who were brought back to Europe. In March 1951 the Goya drove with emigrants from Piraeus to Wellington in New Zealand . There were two more trips to New Zealand (the last of them with only 505 passengers) and finally one last, in December 1951, to Melbourne, with only 446 emigrants on board. The great days of the emigration ships were over; the Goya was converted back into a cargo ship (5239 BRT, 2900 NRT, 6950 tdw) in March 1952 and then sailed as such.
Cargo ship
The early 1960s saw a rapid succession of changes in ownership. In December 1960 the ship was sold to A / S Rona (Tollak J. Skogland) in Haugesund and renamed Reina . It was sold again in July 1962, this time to D / SA / S Svanholm (Erling & Trygve Matland) in Haugesund, who renamed it Svanholm . The next sale followed in January 1963, to Skips-A / S Hilde (Christen K. Gran A / S) in Bergen, which called the ship Hilde . In July 1964 the Meldaf Shipping Company in Piraeus ( Greece ) bought the ship and named it Melina (Lloyd's registration number 541157).
The End
The Melina was sold to Taiwan in 1969 for demolition . It arrived in Kaohsiung on July 19, 1969 and was scrapped in November 1969.
Web links
- Skipshistorie.net, 1961 MS Reina (3)
- Warsailors.com, M / S Goya, Section: Other ships by this name
- Shipsnostalgia.com, Goya, IMO 5541157
literature
- Peter Plowman: Australian Migrant Ships 1946–1977. Rosenberg Publishing, Dural, NSW, 2006, ISBN 1-877058-40-8 , p. 36
Notes and individual references
- ↑ The Aviso Grille with the staff of the "Leader of U-Boats, Norway", the fleet tanker Carinthia , the workshop ship Huascaran and the barge Stella Polaris .
- ↑ U 278 , U 294 , U 295 , U 312 , U 313 , U 318 , U 363 , U 427 , U 481 , U 668 , U 716 , U 968 , U 992 , U 997 and U 1165 .
- ↑ This trip to New Zealand in March-May 1951 was commemorated 50 years later, in September 2001, with a festive dinner in Wellington. http://beehive.govt.nz/speech/new-zealand-enriched-ss-goya-migrants