Lippe (ship, 1914)
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The lip was one of twelve freighters of Rhineland-class , which the North German Lloyd was commissioned and which were completed in 1912 to 1915th She was extradited to Great Britain in 1919 as war indemnity and sailed under the British flag as Tresithney and Pipiriki until 1929 and 1933 respectively .
Construction and technical data
The ship was launched on August 8, 1914 at Flensburger shipbuilding company with the hull number 341, stack and was delivered on February 2, 1915th It was 144.01 m long and 18.07 m wide and had a 8.14 m draft and 8.71 m side height . It was measured with 6714 BRT and 4162 NRT. A triple expansion steam engine from the Flensburger Schiffsbau-Gesellschaft with 4000 HP enabled a speed of 12 knots via one screw . Like all its sister ships from the Waldeck ordered the Waldeck a cabin equipment for six passengers of the first class. The ship, like its sister ships, was intended for the liner service to Australia and New Zealand .
history
Since the ship was not completed and delivered until after the outbreak of the First World War , it was no longer used as intended, but spent the war years as a trailer .
On April 2, 1919, it was delivered to Great Britain as a reparation payment . The British shipping controller assigned it to the shipping company Cairns, Noble & Co. to operate. On February 1, 1921, the ship was bought for £ 120,000 by the Hain Steamship Company , a subsidiary of the P&O Group , and renamed Tresithney . It drove between Europe and Australia / New Zealand. On November 16, 1922, the ship collided with the Swedish steamer Carl O Kjellberg while leaving Antwerp . On November 16, 1924, the ship was sold to the Federal Steam Navigation Company in London , also a subsidiary of P&O, who handed it over to another P&O subsidiary, the New Zealand Shipping Company , for management. The ship was given the new name Pipiriki . It continued to operate between New Zealand, Australia and Western Europe.
On November 15, 1929, the Pipiriki ran aground on arrival from Port Pirie (Australia) in Swansea ( Wales ). The case suffered damage severe enough to repair the midst of that world economic crisis not rentierte, and the ship was in December 1929 at the River Fal north of Falmouth launched. On November 9, 1933, it was finally sold for £ 7,300 to the Ditta L. Pittaluga Vapori demolition yard in Genoa , where it arrived on December 3, 1933 and was scrapped in 1934.
Web links
- Ship Fact Sheet (PDF; 42 kB), P&O Heritage