Kigoma (ship)
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The Kigoma was the last German ship commissioned as a Reichspostdampfer . The Kigoma was after two of Blohm & Voss built sister ships, General and Tabora , from Reiherstieg shipyard in 1914 for the Hamburg German East Africa line completed (DOAL).
It was used again from 1922 under the German flag by the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) as Toledo .
Reichspostdampfer
The Kigoma began her maiden voyage on May 10, 1914 on the main line of the DOAL, the so-called all-around-Africa service. On this line, which alternately circumnavigated Africa in an easterly or westerly direction, she was with the sister ships Tabora and General , as well as the Princess , the Admiral (1906/05), the Prince Regent , the Field Marshal , the Mayor (1903/02) and the Crown Prince (1900) of the DOAL as well as the Gertrud Woermann , Adolph Woermann ( Woermann Line ) and Windhuk (1906, 1914) and the Rhenania (1904) of HAPAG.
The DOAL had a total of 23 ships with 102,157 GRT. In passenger traffic, it was the line with the second largest number of passengers in this shipping area after the British Union-Castle Line .
The journey of the Kigoma led through the Mediterranean first to German East Africa and then via Cape Town and back through the Atlantic. The Kigoma , on her way home , received news of the international crisis in the Bay of Biscay . The captain decided to continue the voyage around Great Britain and reached Hamburg with his ship on August 2, 1914.
War and post-war uses
From 1915 the Kigoma was used as a transporter in the Baltic Sea.
After the end of the war it had to be extradited and ran under the English flag for the Allied transport command. Managed by Shaw, Savill & Albion Steamship Co. , it was first used in the repatriation of German prisoners of war and then in the home transport of New Zealand soldiers.
In 1920 she drove on the government line to India.
In 1921 it was bought by the Anchor Line , Glasgow, renamed Algeria (II) and made sixteen trips to New York from February 16, 1921.
Again under the German flag
On December 4, 1922, HAPAG bought the ship and from January 18, 1923, after reconstruction, put it into service on the route to Cuba and Mexico with seats for 122 passengers in the first class and 178 in the second class as Toledo . From 1924 this service was carried out together with the Schuldt Ocean Line. HAPAG used the Holsatia (7,315 GRT, ~ 270 cabin spaces) bought from the Netherlands as the second ship . The ocean line used its Schleswig-Holstein (2745 GRT), North Schleswig (3369 GRT) for 30 passengers and the new motor ships Rio Bravo and Rio Panuco initially for 88 passengers.
From January 1927 she was used again under the German East-Africa Line to Africa. She drove via Rotterdam, Southampton, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , Walvis Bay , Lüderitz to Cape Town. In 1930 the engine output increased to 6000 PSi and the speed to 14 knots through the installation of exhaust steam turbines.
In 1932 the Toledo was launched and in 1934 it was sold for demolition.
literature
- Carl Herbert: War voyages of German merchant ships. Broschek & Co, Hamburg 1934.
- Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping. Volume 4: Destruction and rebirth 1914 to 1930. Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-8225-0047-X ( writings of the German Maritime Museum 21).
- 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 .
- Reinhart Schmelzkopf: The German Merchant Shipping 1919–1939. 2 volumes. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg et al .;
- Volume 1: Chronicle and evaluation of the events in shipping and shipbuilding. 1974, ISBN 3-7979-1847-X ,
- Volume 2: List of all ships over 500 GRT with all technical and historical data. 1975, ISBN 3-7979-1859-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ after Kludas departure.