Madrid (ship)

Madrid

Even as Sierra Nevada

Ship data flag  German Empire other ship names Sierra Nevada by 1925 Ship type Passenger ship class Sierra class home port Bremen Shipping company North German Lloyd Hamburg Süd Shipyard AG Vulcan Szczecin Build number 666 Keel laying 1921 Launch May 22, 1922 Commissioning September 6, 1922 Whereabouts Sunk in front of Den Helder on December 9, 1941 .

Ship dimensions and crew length 134.0 m ( Lüa ) width 17.3 m measurement 8,777 GRT 4,968 NRT   crew 186 men

Machine system machine 2 compound machines Machine performance 4,400 hp (3,236 kW) Top speed 13.0 kn (24 km / h) propeller 2

Transport capacities Load capacity 8,000 dw Permitted number of passengers 221 II .; 209 3rd class, 302 between deck

The Madrid was a passenger ship of Hamburg Süd . It was delivered in 1922 as Sierra Nevada from the Vulcan shipyard in Stettin to North German Lloyd (NDL) for liner service to South America . It was a replica of the pre-war Sierra class , but had a second (blind) chimney. In the course of the state unbundling of the German shipping companies and their shipping areas, the Madrid came to Hamburg Süd in 1934. During the Second World War , the ship was defeated by British aircraft off Den Helder on December 9, 1941, at 52 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  N , 4 ° 35 ′ 0 ″  E. Coordinates: 52 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  N , 4 ° 35 ′ 0 ″  E sunk.

history

The second Sierra Nevada (II) of the NDL was a replica of the pre-war Sierra class and was designated as construction no. 666 built by Vulcan in Szczecin for the shipping company's South America service. In contrast to the pre-war ships, it had two funnels, the rear one only being a dummy to make the ship appear longer. She was measured 8,736  GRT and had a carrying capacity of 8,000 tdw.

The first Sierra Nevada as a Brazilian bagé

The first Sierra Nevada of the NDL was the lead ship of the pre-war ships. In 1917, Brazil confiscated the ship lying there because of the First World War and put it back into service as a Bagé . The Bagé was sunk by U 185 on August 1, 1943 .

The new ship was 133.50 m long and 17.25 m wide. The two triple expansion steam engines with a total output of 4400 hp worked on two screws . With this, the Sierra Nevada reached a speed of 13.5 knots . You could 104 first class, 246 second class and 416 III. Carrying class passengers. The crew consisted of 210 men. She was launched on May 22, 1922 and on September 6, 1922, the ship was delivered to the NDL.

At the end of her civil service with Hamburg-Süd, the Madrid had 221 seats for passengers in second class and 209 in third class. 302 passengers could be accommodated in the intermediate deck. The crew consisted of 186 men.

Calls

On September 16, 1922, the Sierra Nevada, planned as an emigration ship, began its maiden voyage from Bremen to New York (two voyages). It wasn't until the end of 1922 that she went to South America for the first time.

In July 1925 it was renamed Madrid and the passenger quarters were converted for 221 second class and 221 third class passengers. Class in chambers and a further 416 passengers in dormitories without first class. The renaming was probably also because the NDL now had three new, significantly larger Sierra ships of over 11,000 GRT in service. In 1927 the Madrid carried out a Baltic Sea / Scandinavia cruise for the first time. Occasionally it was used as a cruise ship until 1932.

In 1929 the Madrid was in a timetable with the Weser (III) and Werra (II), 9450 BRT, built in 1922/23 , on the Bremen, Vigo, Lisbon, Madeira, Tenerife, (Bahia), Rio de Janeiro, Santos, ( Sao Francisco do Sul), (Rio Grande do Sul), Montevideo to Buenos Aires. The three ships of the new Sierra class, Sierra Córdoba (II), Sierra Morena and Sierra Ventana (II), also served the Bremen, Boulogne, Vigo, Lisbon, Madeira, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo and Buenos Aires routes. In addition, the Gotha was used in passenger traffic to South America.

In 1932, the Madrid was occasionally used on the reinforced ocean line to Cuba and Mexico with the ex-Schuldt ships Rio Bravo and Rio Panuco and two new Sierra steamers. After a renewed reconstruction of the passenger compartments there were now places for 182 passengers 2nd class (with the possibility of adding up to 57 additional beds) and 274 3rd class. Class in chambers and an additional 301 passengers in dormitories are available. Under its old name Sierra Nevada , the NDL deployed the chartered Antonio Delfino of the Hamburg-South American Steamship Company to South America between 1932 and 1934 .

In the course of the reorganization of German liner shipping in 1934, NDL and HAPAG had to give up their South America east coast voyage and give up ships. Hamburg-Süd not only got back the ships chartered to the NDL under pressure, but also received the Madrid . Chartered in 1934 and later bought, it remained registered in Bremen until after the start of the war, like other NDL taxes.

Destiny in World War

At the beginning of the war, the Madrid Las Palmas called and stayed there until autumn 1940. From December 3 to 28, 1940, it broke through the blockade to Saint-Nazaire . The second chimney was removed and from February 15, 1941 it served as a residential ship for submarine crews. On December 9, 1941, she was sunk in a British air raid on a German convoy of eight ships near Den Helder off the coast of North Holland . 12 people died. The Madrid had received four bombs and was drifting towards the coast. She ran up at the Keizersbult. Attempts to bring the burning ship down failed and in 1942 the burned-out ship sank.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kludas: passenger shipping . Volume IV: Annihilation and Rebirth. P. 137.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Kludas: Sea Ships of the North German Lloyd. P. 17.
3. ^ Kludas: passenger shipping . Volume III: Erratic Growth. P. 90.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Kludas: Ships of the Hamburg-Süd. P. 110.
5. ^ Kludas: passenger shipping . Volume IV, p. 78.
6. ↑ Kludas: Passenger Shipping , Volume IV, p. 140.
7. ^ Kludas: passenger shipping . Volume IV, p. 216.
8. ^ Kludas: passenger shipping . Volume V, p. 109: five trips to the Baltic Sea in 1932
9. ↑ timetable illustration 1929
10. ^ Kludas: passenger shipping . Volume V: An era is coming to an end. P. 51.
11. ^ Kludas: passenger shipping . Volume IV, p. 118.
12. ↑ with picture of the Madrid HSDG
13. ↑ Rothe: Ocean passenger ships. P. 67.

literature

• Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping 1850 to 1990 . Ernst Kabel Verlag, 1986.
• Arnold Kludas: The ships of the North German Lloyd 1920 to 1970. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 1992, ISBN 3-7822-0534-0 .
• Arnold Kludas: The ships of Hamburg-Süd 1871 to 1951. Gerhard Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg 1976, ISBN 3-7979-1875-5 .
• Claus Rothe: German ocean passenger ships 1919 to 1985. Steiger Verlag, 1987, ISBN 3-921564-97-2 .
• Reinhart Schmelzkopf: The German Merchant Shipping 1919–1939. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg, ISBN 3-7979-1847-X .

Web links

• Bremen passenger lists , there → ship names: Sierra Ventana (September 16, 1922 - February 14, 1925); Madrid (October 17, 1925 - September 10, 1934)
• The loss of the Madrid with a picture of the sinking ship