Dragonfly (ship, 1902)
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The Libelle was a boat of the German colonial administration of Cameroon and part of the governorate flotilla .
history
The Libelle was built in Hamburg in 1902 as a cabin cruiser in the shape of a cutter . It was made of oak and teak with copper plates. The cabin was about midships and was ten feet long. In front the boat had a hold over which a small promenade deck lay. Aft was an open seating area and a towing device. The dragonfly had a Capitaine petrol engine with an output of 14 hp , which drove a three-bladed reversing screw. The fuel consumption was about 400 grams of petroleum per hour at high speeds. The boat was named after dragonflies from the class of insects that were native to all African colonies in Germany, including Cameroon.
On March 5, 1902, the dragonfly was officially approved as an inspection boat for the Imperial Government of Cameroon after a successful test drive in Hamburg. Then she was transported to Duala on the merchant ship Alexandra Woermann . The dragonfly was later a sister ship of the Wuri built in 1906 .
Nothing is known about the further whereabouts of the dragonfly .
literature
- Erich Gröner : The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 7, Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1990, p. 217.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Negotiations of the Reichstag. Volume 196. 1900/03, file 814 (memorandum on the German protected areas), Berlin 1903, p. 5278 ( online ).
- ↑ a b Without author: Motorboat for Cameroon. In: Reichskolonialamt (Ed.): Deutsches Kolonialblatt - Official Journal of the Reichskolonialamt. Volume 13, 1902, p. 163.
- ^ Friedrich Dahl : Libellen, in: Heinrich Schnee (ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . Vol. 2, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 454 ( online ).