Stoltera (ship, 1946)
 The Stoltera in 1967
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The cargo ship Stoltera was a merchant ship of the GDR - state shipping company VEB Deutsche Seereederei Rostock (DSR). It was bought abroad and paid for with convertible foreign currency from the Hobby Horse movement initiated by the Radebeul company VEB Hobby Horse.
history
The cargo ship, later named Stoltera , was launched on April 9, 1946 as hull number 283 in the Kockums M / V shipyard in the Swedish port city of Malmö . In August 1946 it was delivered under the name Nils Gorthon to the shipping company Rederi A / B Gefion, Mgr. Stig Gorthon , based in Helsingborg . It was the first ship in a series of four ships with almost identical dimensions and technical data. The Swedish shipbuilding industry, including Kockums in Malmö, reacted to the lack of shipping space with the end of the Second World War. It launched a small series of ships to supply its own shipowners. Since neutral Sweden remained without war damage and, unlike Germany, it was not affected by reparations, it was possible to build new ships without any shortage of materials. After a little more than eleven years of service under the Swedish flag, this type of ship was basically out of date and was offered for sale. At the same time, the GDR was looking for a cheap old clay fleet as part of the Hobby Horse movement in order to build up its own ocean-going trading fleet. During the Cold War , those responsible in the GDR preferred to buy ships from more neutral countries such as Sweden, which at the time received attention in the German media.
In the course of the hobby horse movement in the GDR , the ship was purchased in February 1959 with the foreign currency provided and added to the fleet of the German shipping company Rostock on February 26 of the same year under the name Stoltera . It was named after the Stoltera , a striking coastal formation in the Baltic Sea west of Warnemünde . It is worth mentioning the typical appearance of the ships built in Scandinavia at that time with the teak-clad bridge fronts . The ship was mainly used in the Levant service.
On December 1, 1970, it was decommissioned by the German shipping company and sold to the Greek company Pigi & Anthony Alexatos, based in Piraeus . The new name of the ship was Danae IV . As early as 1972 it was under the name Stolterjo under the Cypriot flag with its home port Famagusta for the shipping company Carital Maritime Co. Ltd. registered. In 1974 the ship was acquired by Universal Chicago Shipping Co. in Panama . The flag of Singapore waved over the ship for a year , from 1975 it sailed briefly under the Panamanian flag for the same owner until it was sold as Gulf Pearl to the Sharjah Shipping Co. Ltd. based in Limassol was resold. The new owner re-flagged the ship in 1976 to Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates .
On a voyage from Singapore to Karachi in the summer of 1979, the ship was caught in a violent storm and suffered severe damage. It reached the port of Bombay on June 26th and was laid up . At the beginning of 1980, Rotaberry Ltd. acquired surface repairs. London based in Sharjah the vehicle as earl at scrap value. On July 5, 1980, the ship entered Karachi on its own. From there it was transferred to Gadani Beach north-northwest of Karachi, where the dismantling of the now almost 35-year-old ship began on September 27, 1980.
More ships of the Hobby Horse Movement
- Cargo ship Kap Arkona (date of handover to the DSR: November 12, 1958)
- Cargo ship Stubbenkammer (December 17, 1958)
- Hobby Horse Cargo Ship (January 5, 1959)
- Tanker Rositz (March 28, 1960)
- Tanker Schwarzheide (April 30, 1960)
- Tanker Lützkendorf (June 17, 1960)
literature
- Author collective: VEB Deutsche Seereederei Rostock . German shipping companies Volume 23, Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen, ISBN 3-928473-81-6 .
- Gerd Peters : The purchase of old tonnage ships for the GDR merchant fleet. Poetry and truth about the hobby horse movement . In: Full ahead. For sailors and friends of seafaring. Issue No. 12, May 2007, pp. 4/5. Type IV driving people eV (publisher), Rostock 2007.
Web links
- Ship picture and description (Swedish)
- Photo of the stoltera
- Maritime radio data on the Stoltera ( Memento from July 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Full advance newspaper for drivers (PDF; 553 kB)
- ^ Miramar Ship Index, Mils Gorthon, IMO 5341265 , accessed December 3, 2019
- ↑ Miramar Ship Index, Kockums MV construction list, page 8 , accessed on December 3, 2019
- ↑ Zone bought two ships from Sweden - Hamburger Abendblatt No. 238 of October 13, 1958 ( Memento of July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )