Madang (ship, 1910)
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The Madang was a German cargo and passenger ship built in 1910 and used by the New Guinea Company in German New Guinea . In the First World War took Australia the ship, 1924, trace of him.
Construction and technical data
When the North German Lloyd did not extend the ship management contract with the New Guinea Company in 1909, the company needed additional shipping space. Since the local shipyards in German New Guinea had no experience with steamships, the company commissioned the Ulderup & Schlüter shipyard in Hong Kong with the newbuilding, which the ship put on keel in 1910 . When it was launched , it was named Madang after the local and more common name of Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen , today's capital of the province of the same name in Papua New Guinea .
Her length was 35.93 meters, she was 6.10 meters wide and had a draft of 3.05 meters. She was measured with 194 GRT or 98 NRT and had a load capacity of 278 tons. The drive consisted of a triple expansion machine with an output of 210 hp . This acted on a screw , the steamer reached a speed of 12.0 knots . The crew consisted of 25 people.
history
With the delivery of the Madang in 1910, the New Guinea company took over the management of the ship itself. In addition to the new steamer, she had a second steamer, the Siar , as well as some wooden schooners and locally stationed boats. She used the steamer for the transport of passengers and cargo, but also for exploratory trips: As with the Siar , the main tasks of the ship were to collect the copra from the plantations to the ships that brought the cargo to Europe for further processing of European passengers and recruited local workers for the plantations of the company, the mail delivery and the transport of all other navigable goods in their sailing area.
The arrival of the steamer was announced in the official gazette for the Papua New Guinea protected area , after which the Madang arrived in Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen about once or twice a month, which was also visited by the Reichspostdampfer of the North German Lloyd. In addition to transport tasks, the Madang was also used for exploration trips. In the years 1910 to 1912 she drove up the then unexplored Sepik on several trips before the Empress Augusta River Expedition was carried out in 1912/13 . In addition, the Madang was used in police "punitive expeditions" - as in February / March 1913 against the murderers of a murdered planter.
At the beginning of the First World War , the steamer was armed and equipped with at least one gun, which was placed on the bow. When the Australian gunboat HMAS Protector (built in 1884, 920 tons, 3 × 102 mm, 2 × 76.2 mm, 4 × 47 mm) of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN & MEF) approached the port of Herbertshöhe , there was a brief exchange of fire between the two ships. The HMAS Protector took the Madang into custody, who was initially interned and later brought to Rabaul . During the course of the war, Australia used the ship for its own purposes, such as transporting troops, and after the war it remained in the possession of the government. In 1924 she auctioned the Madang together with the Siar and the Meklong . The further whereabouts of the ship are unknown.
See also
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Abert: The German Merchant Navy 1870–2000: The résumés of steam and motor ships over 100 GRT , self-published, Ratzeburg 2003
- Heinrich Schnee (editor): Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (3 volumes) , Verlag Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920 ( online version ).
- Hans J. Ohff: Empires of Enterprise: German and english commercial interests in east New Guinea 1884 to 1914 , Dissertation University of Adelaide 2008 ( online version as PDF )
- Silke Olig: Signs on Sepik. The New Guinea collection of naval officer Joseph Hartle from 1912 and 1913 in the State Museum of Ethnology in Munich as a semiotic object of investigation , dissertation Ludwig Maximilian University Munich 2006 ( online version as PDF )
- Golf Dornseif: German expeditions to the Kaiserin Augusta River
Web links
- Photo of the Madang (partial view) on the Australian War Memorial website , accessed March 26, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ohff, p. 172
- ↑ Abert
- ^ Entry New Guinea Company in Snow
- ↑ Ohff, p. 170f.
- ↑ Pre-selection for the Official Gazette at trove.nla.gov.au
- ↑ Olig, p. 71
- ↑ Dornseif, p. 17
- ^ Official Journal for the Papua New Guinea Protected Area of April 1, 1913
- ↑ HMAS Protector at sahistoryhub.com.au
- ^ Website of the Australian War Memorial
- ^ The Argus (Melbourne): Government owned steamships for sale , Tuesday April 24, 1924 issue, p. 4