Lützow (ship, 1908)
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The Reichspostdampfer Lützow was the tenth ship of the general class of the North German Lloyd (NDL) for service to East Asia and Australia. The ship was named after the Prussian Major General Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow (1782–1834), the commander of the " Black Hunters ".
Lützow , confiscated by the British in the Suez Canal in 1914 , was bought back by the NDL in 1923 and used on the North Atlantic and for cruises until 1932. It was the first ship to take an airplane to offer sightseeing flights to its passengers .
history
The Lützow began her maiden voyage to New York on April 11, 1908 . On July 29, 1908 it was first used as a Reichspostdampfer to East Asia .
At the beginning of the First World War , the Lützow was in the Suez Canal . It was confiscated by the British and used as a huntsend . (See Hunnstampfer .)
In 1923 the NDL bought the Lützow back. After repair and reconstruction, measured with 8716 GRT, the Lützow had facilities for 820 passengers only in the II and III. Class. On June 14, 1924, she began her first post-war trip for the NDL to New York. She was also used in Canada . In June 1925, she carried out three Nordland cruises for the first time. In 1926 five Mediterranean cruises followed from February 12th: The Lützow ran from Bremerhaven around Spain in 16 days to Genoa , from there the second voyage went in 15 days via nine intermediate ports to Venice and the third voyage from there in 26 days Greece to Constantinople , Palestine to Alexandria and back to Venice. The fourth and fifth voyages repeated the first two in reverse. In 1927 there were trips to the Mediterranean and North, but also a Baltic / Scandinavia cruise on the program; by 1931 there were a total of 17 cruises.
From April 1927, the Lützow was the first ship to take an airplane to offer sightseeing flights to tourists. It was a Junkers F-13 floatplane (D-376 "Kronenreiher") from Deutsche Lufthansa .
In May 1929 the passenger facilities were rebuilt and the Lützow received a cabin, tourist and III. Class. On April 7, 1932, the last North Atlantic voyage of the Lützow began and on July 8, another trip to East Asia.
On December 24, 1932, the ship was sold for demolition.
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Remarks
- ↑ a b c d e Kludas: Passenger Shipping , Vol. III, p. 158f.
- ↑ Kludas, Passenger Shipping, Vol. IV, p. 215ff.
- ^ Kludas, Passenger Shipping, Vol. IV, p. 216
literature
- Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping. Volume 3: Rapid growth 1900 to 1914. Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-8225-0039-9 ( writings of the German Maritime Museum 20).
- 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 .