Lippe (ship, 1917)
 nor as the City of Dunedin
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The Lippe was the only ship of the seven Remscheid class freighters of the North German Lloyd (NDL), which were completed in 1915 and which also operated under the German flag in peacetime. The ships intended for the East Asian service of the NDL were delivered to the victorious powers in 1919 due to the surrender regulations and came into service under foreign flags.
The Ellerman Lines used the ship launched as Porta from 1921 under the name City of Dunedin . In December 1927, the NDL acquired the ship and named it Lippe , as the shipping company's original German name has since been rebuilt. The lip was mostly used to East Asia.
The lip was sunk near Narvik in April 1940 . Raised and repaired again, it was finally sunk on March 7, 1944 off Namsos .
history
Construction, delivery and first years
The later Lippe was the last of the four ships that the Bremer Vulkan completed in Vegesack . The Remscheid- class ships had four masts and a pair of cargo booms on the forecastle .
On August 19, 1919, construction number 585 was completed, which was launched as Porta in June 1917 . The Porta was delivered to Great Britain on September 5, 1919 as war indemnity and was initially used by Lamport & Holt. In 1921, Ellerman Lines acquired the ship and used it as the City of Dunedin to Australia.
At the NDL
In December 1927, the NDL acquired the ship and initially deployed it as the Lippe to East Asia, but also to Australia. The former name of Porta (after Porta Westfalica ) has been used by a new Minden class of 4162 GRT freighters since 1921 . The name Lippe of the German river and small state had previously been used at NDL by a Rhineland-class freighter completed in 1915 , which had not been used in the war and was in British service from 1919 (most recently as Pipiriki ).
After 1932, the lip was widely used to South America. In 1937 she fetched ore from Australia and on her return journey met the liner Aller in Adelaide , which was continuing its voyage to the Dutch East Indies .
Second World War
In August 1939 the Lippe was on its way to East Asia and changed course due to the news to get back to Germany. On September 5, 1939, she entered Narvik . She then evaded further to Murmansk and reached Kiel on October 6th.
In 1940 the Lippe was in Narvik during the German invasion of Norway to transport ore and was sunk by British destroyers during their second attack on April 13th.
Lifted and repaired, the Lippe was used again as a transporter and cargo ship in 1941. On March 7, 1944, it was found by the British submarine HMS Scepter at 64 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ N , 10 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E. off Namsos torpedoed. The attempt to beach the ship failed; it broke and was lost.
literature
- Arnold Kludas : The ships of the North German Lloyd 1857 to 1919 . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1991, ISBN 3-7822-0524-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Note on sales to NDL
- ↑ Arrival in Brisbane from Europe August 1937 The Courier-Mail Brisbane, August 16, 1937
- ^ Two big German cargo ships The Advertiser Adelaide, August 30, 1937
- ↑ Model of the lip
- ↑ involved the destroyers HMS Bedouin , HMS Cossack , HMS Eskimo , HMS Punjabi , HMS Forester , HMS Foxhound , HMS Hero , HMS Icarus and HMS Kimberley .
