Crown Prince (ship, 1900)
 The sister ship Kurfürst
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The Kronprinz was a Reichspostdampfer of the shipping company Deutsche Ost-Afrika-Linie (DOAL) of 5645 GRT delivered by Blohm & Voss in 1900 . The Crown Prince stayed in Lourenco Marques , Mozambique , in August 1914 because of the outbreak of war . There the ship was confiscated by Portugal in March 1916 , renamed Quelimane and then used under the Portuguese flag. In 1927 the ship was canceled.
The Reiherstieg shipyard built a sister ship , the Kurfürst , which came into service in 1901 with a modified passenger facility, but was lost in 1904 due to stranding.
history
The Crown Prince , completed in 1900, was the tenth new building of the DOAL founded in 1890 for the Reichspostdampferdienst to German East Africa . At 5,645 GRT, she was the shipping company's largest ship up to that point and the third two-screw ship after the post steamers Herzog and König of 4,900 GRT. With the Reichspostdampfer contract expiring in 1900, the DOAL procured two considerably larger steamers, the Crown Prince and the Elector who followed in 1901 , but they were not competitive with the British mail ships to South Africa. The British Briton of the Union Steam Ship Company was the largest ship in the Africa liner service at 10,248 GRT, could accommodate up to 480 passengers in two classes and was also the fastest Africa liner with a service speed of 17 knots. The smaller Carisbrook Castle and Kinfauns Castle of the Castle Line reached this speed with 390 and 350 passengers respectively. The two British shipping companies were then also merged in March 1900.
The Kronprinz was 125.3 m long and 14.6 m wide and was powered by two triple expansion engines, which together developed 3700 hp and enabled a speed of 13.5 knots (kn). The ship, measured at 5645 GRT, offered space for 72 passengers in the first class, 56 in the second and 60 in the third. Class, had a tween deck hall for 116 people and had a load capacity of 5700 dwt. The tween deck facility was intended for the transport of soldiers, whose transport was also the responsibility of the shipping company. This facility was not present on all of the following new Reichspost steamers until 1914. Only four of the following nine DOAL newbuildings had them.
The Crown Prince was launched on April 10, 1900 and was delivered on June 30, 1900. On July 4, 1900, the ship set off from Hamburg on its maiden voyage to East Africa. A year later, when it left Hamburg on July 3, 1901, it opened the long-planned “All Around Africa” service. Bremerhaven, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Vlissingen, Southampton, Lisbon, Tangier, Marseille, Naples, Port Said, Suez, Aden, Mombasa, Tanga, Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam, Mocambique, Beira, Lourenco Marques, Durban, East London, Cape Town, and later also Lüderitz Bay, Tenerife and Las Palmas. Trial trips “Around Africa” had already existed since the Setos crossed the South Atlantic to South Africa and then to Delagoa Bay on March 10, 1894 , and then returned to Hamburg on the mail steamer route along East Africa and through the Red Sea and the Mediterranean . For political reasons, these trips were given up and only resumed after the end of the Boer War .
The sister ship Kurfürst
The sister ship Kurfürst , built by the Reiherstieg shipyard, was launched on July 9, 1901 and was completed on October 13, 1901. On November 20, the Elector started her maiden voyage in the “All Around Africa” service. She was largely similar to her sister ship, but had a passenger facility without an intermediate deck. The ship, measured at 5654 GRT, offered space for 100 passengers in the first class, 80 in the second and 90 in the third. Class. In January 1903, Swakopmund was the first ship of the DOAL German South West Africa to call on a western tour at the request of the Reich government .
The shipping company was initially not taken with this stop, as it lost time to South Africa and the destination was assigned to the nearby Woermann line . After the outbreak of the Herero uprising , the DOAL accepted the arrival of the colony as a national task and left Lisbon out of the western exit in order to be able to continue to offer acceptable travel times to Cape Town . Now Lüderitzbucht was called because Swakopmund was completely overloaded by the military supply transport.
The elector had already been lost by then. On a voyage home across the Mediterranean Sea, early in the morning of May 5, 1904, she ran four nautical miles north of Sagres off the Portuguese coast in thick fog on a rock. Tugs hurried to help could not detract from the ship and it broke in rough seas on the afternoon of May 6th after the crew and 99 passengers had been brought to safety.
Use of the Crown Prince
The new version of the Reichspostdampfer contract of 1900 required for use on the main line Reichspostdampfer of over 5000 GRT, which were ordered immediately, so that the eight new mail steamers delivered by 1914 ( Mayor , Prince Regent and Field Marshal ; Admiral and Princess as well as General , Tabora and Kigoma ) were all bigger. The five new cargo ships delivered by 1914 ( Khalif and the Khedive , which sank in 1910, as well as Emir , Muansa and Rufidji ) were over 5000 GRT.
In 1914, the Crown Prince was the oldest and smallest of the nine DOAL mail steamers used on the main line “Around Africa”, in addition to which two ships each of the Woermann Line and the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (Hapag) have been in service since 1907 came after the three Hamburg shipping companies had formed an operating group.
More mail steamers of the DOAL in the "All Around Africa" service until 1914
| Surname | Shipyard | GRT | Length [m] |
Passengers | Launch i. D. DOAL |
further fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elector | Reiherstieg shipyard No. 407 |
5654 | 125.2 | 270 | July 9, 1901 October 13, 1901 |
May 6th, 1904 sunk on the way home off the Portuguese coast after accruing |
| mayor |
Flensburg SG No. 210 |
5945 | 125.3 | 250 | 02/27/1902 06/19/1902 |
1914 in Hamburg, 1919 delivered to France: Macoris 1935 demolished |
| Prince Regent | Blohm & Voss No. 164 |
6341 | 126.8 | 175 | 01/10/1903 04/6/1903 |
Between deck for 120 men, 1914 to Tenerife , 1919 delivered to France: Cordoba 1932 demolished |
| Field Marshal | Reiherstieg shipyard No. 410 |
6142 | 126.7 | 268 | 02/21/1903 06/24/1903 |
Tween deck for 120 men, 1914 in Dar es Salaam , 17 August 1915 damaged by gunfire from HMS Hyacinth , repaired by the British in 1916 and in service as Field Marshall , 1922 sold to China, 1947 sunk |
| admiral | Blohm & Voss No. 178 |
6341 | 126.8 | 264 | 25.06.1905 09.23.1905 |
Tween deck for 106 men, sought protection in Lourenco Marques in 1914, confiscated by Portugal in 1916: Lourenco Marques , scrapped in 1950 |
| princess | Blohm & Voss No. 182 |
6387 | 126.8 | 298 | December 23, 1905 April 20, 1906 |
1914 in Hamburg, 1919 delivered, first under the British flag, in 1921 to France: General Voyron , scrapped in 1934 |
| general | Blohm & Voss No. 203 |
8063 | 136.9 | 283 | 07/13/1910 02/25/1911 |
Between deck for 70 men, Messina in 1914, then Smyrna, Constantinople, living quarters, hospital and auxiliary ship of the German Mediterranean division made available to the Turks , confiscated by France in 1918 in Odessa: Azay le Rideau , scrapped in 1937 |
| Tabora | Blohm & Voss No. 211 |
8022 | 136.9 | 316 | 18.04.1912 06.29.1912 |
1914 Dar es Salaam, sunk by British ships on March 23, 1916 |
| Kigoma | Reiherstieg shipyard No. 451 |
8156 | 137.0 | 310 | 30.01.1914 04.28.1914 |
The march was canceled in 1914 and returned to Hamburg in 1919, first under the British flag, in 1921 to France: Algeria , 1922 bought by Hapag, renamed Toledo , in 1927 again in Africa service, scrapped in 1934 |
Fate of war
The Crown Prince was in Lourenco Marques, Mozambique, at the beginning of August 1914, together with the Admiral (6355 GRT), completed in 1905 , and was laid up and interned there for the duration of the war .
At the beginning of March 1916 she was confiscated by Portugal and used as a hospital ship from October 1916 to the end of 1917 . In 1918, the Crown Prince, renamed Quelimane , was taken over as a transporter for the Portuguese Navy . In 1927 the former Crown Prince was then scrapped.
Captains
- 1904: steel
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kludas: History of Passenger Shipping, Vol. II, p. 219.
- ↑ Kludas: Passenger Shipping, Vol. III, p. 22f.
- ↑ Kludas: Liners , Bd.III, p. 24
- ↑ Kludas: Passenger Shipping, Vol. III, p. 226.
- ↑ Kludas: Passenger Shipping, Vol. II, p. 221.
- ↑ a b Kludas: Ships of the Africa Lines , p. 44.
- ↑ Kludas: Passenger Shipping, Vol. III, p. 26f.
- ↑ a b Kludas: Ships of the Africa Lines , p. 48.
- ↑ Kludas: Afrika-Linien , p. 50.
- ↑ a b Kludas: Afrika-Linien , p. 57
- ^ Kludas: Afrika-Linien , p. 65
- ↑ Kludas: Afrika-Linien , p. 65f.
- ↑ Kludas: Afrika-Linien , p. 66.
Web links
- Page on the history of the shipping companies Deutsche Afrika-Linien, John T. Essberger, u. a. as well as the trading house C. Woermann under construction
- O Navio-hospital "Quelimane"
- "LORENZO MARQUES" ex 'Admiral'
- History of Pebane ex Kadett ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
literature
- Carl Herbert: War voyages of German merchant ships . Broschek & Co, Hamburg 1934.
- Hans H. Hildebrand / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships: Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford,
- 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 II Expansion on All Seas 1890 to 1900 , Writings of the German Shipping Museum, Volume 19
- Arnold Kludas: The History of the German Passenger Shipping Volume III Leap growth 1900 to 1914 , Writings of the German Shipping 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