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The Marxburg was a cargo ship for the line to La Plata of the German steam shipping company "Hansa" (DDG "Hansa"), Bremen. For this line the shipping company procured three ships each from the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft and the Danish Helsingørs Jernskibsværft , which were delivered between 1888 and 1891. The Marxburg was one of the ships built in Denmark and came into service as the penultimate one.
In February 1900 the ship was sold to the Deutsche Levante Line (DLL), which renamed it Athos . In 1914 the Athos was confiscated in Russian waters and was to be sunk as a block ship in front of the Turkish port of Zonguldak at the end of 1914 . On the approach she was sunk by the German-Turkish cruiser Midilli .
History of the ship
For its service to the Río de la Plata, the DDG "Hansa" procured six Wartburg- class ships from 1888 to 1891 , which were built by the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft and the Danish Helsingørs Jernskibværft. For safety reasons, these steamers were rigged as brigantines in their first years of service, their expansion engines of over 1000 hp gave the ships a service speed of 10 knots . The Marxburg , measured with 1809 GRT , was accepted on March 28, 1891 as the second of the ships built in Denmark and the penultimate of the class by the DDG "Hansa". The almost 80 m long ship is said to have the highest load capacity with 2535 tdw and is the only one of the six steamers not to have reached the speed of 10 kn.
The ship was named after the Marksburg near Braubach am Rhein.
On -burg ending name given to the First World War all new construction of DDG "Hansa", which were provided for the service to South America. Before the Wartburg class, the 1566 GRT single ship Falkenburg was delivered by Schichau as early as 1884 . Up until the war, 20 new buildings in six series up to a size of 6400 GRT followed. The last new ship with this kind of naming was the charter steamer Trostburg (2) of 1467 BRT, with which the shipping company resumed its liner services from 1919 to 1923.
During the service of the Wartburg class, two 2,760 tdw cargo ships from Flensburg came into service in 1894 and four 3700 tdw cargo ships built in England in 1895/96.
From 1899 the ships of the Wartburg class were eliminated. In 1900, the sister ships Löwenburg and Wartburg , which were sold to the NDL in 1905, and in 1905 the five steamers of the Marksburg class of over 6,000 tdw to the DDG "Hansa" came as replacement structures . The latter and three replicas formed the trunk of the ships used to South America in 1914.
A first new building ( Trostburg ) of over 10,000 tdw came into service in the summer of 1914 and made its maiden voyage to Calcutta , where it was surprised by the outbreak of war. Three sister ships were completed during the war and then delivered. In 1939, the bought-back Wolfsburg was the only ship in the company that still had a castle- ending name.
The further fate of the Marxburg
On February 20, 1900, the Marksburg was sold to the Deutsche Levante Line (DLL) in Hamburg, which had already acquired the sister ship Heimburg at the end of the previous year . While the Heimburg was sold on in 1906, the Marxburg, renamed Athos , remained in Levante service until 1914. In 1914 the Athos was one of nine DLL ships that had originally been built for DDG Hansa and of which the Kawak was the largest with 3535 GRT.
The Athos was in when war broke out in 1914 in the Sea of Azov and was of Russia in Mariupol seized. The Russian Navy wanted to block the port of Zonguldak , which is important for the Turkish coal supply, with the old cargo ship . On December 24, 1914, the Turkish cruiser Midilli (ex SMS Breslau ) discovered the approaching Russians and sank the Athos about 60 nautical miles north of Zonguldak in the Black Sea at the position 42 ° 10 ′ N , 31 ° 50 ′ E, .
Fate of the sister ships
| Surname | Shipyard | GRT tdw |
Launched in service |
further fate |
| Wartburg |
Flensburg building no. 98 |
1744 2270 |
06/21/1888 08/01/1888 |
November 1899 Sale to Menzell & Co, renamed Arnold Luyken , November 23, 1903 sunk in Formosa-Strasse |
| Heimburg | Elsinore building no. 19th |
1855 2400 |
08.1889 16.10.1889 |
December 1899 sale to DLL, renamed Argos , 1906 resale to Russia: Eduard Bary , 1920 San Eugenio / F, 1922 Borkholm / DK, 1922 Anna Busck / F, April 1932 demolition |
| Schönburg | Flensburg building no. 116 |
1847 2144 |
October 18, 1890 December 6, 1890 |
October 1903 sold to Rob. M. Sloman , renamed Modena , sunk June 9, 1909 |
| Löwenburg | Flensburg building no. 117 |
1848 2144 |
12/9/1890 02/10/1891 |
November 1899 sale to Menzell & Co, renamed Emma Luyken , 1907 resale to Japan: Fudo Maru , 1922 Hozui Maru , 1924 Cochinchine / F, 1926 Philadelphia , Hwachan , Fenghsiang / Ch, 1931 demolition |
| Marxburg | Elsinore building no. 30th |
1809 2535 |
01.1891 28.03.1891 |
February 1900 sold to DLL, renamed Athos , confiscated by Russia in 1914, sunk by German-Turkish cruisers on December 24, 1914 |
| Arensburg | Elsinore building no. 29 |
1815 2300 |
10.1891 December 29, 1891 |
October 1903 sold to Sloman, renamed Parma , dropped April 30, 1904 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Falkenburg
- ^ The second Trostburg
- ^ Marienburg from Flensburg
- ↑ Rudelsburg , 3700 dw
- ↑ The Marksburg
- ↑ The Trostburg (1)
- ↑ The Wolfsburg (2)
- ↑ The sinking of Athos
- ^ Fall of the Parma
Web links
literature
- Carl Herbert: War voyages of German merchant ships . Broschek & Co, Hamburg 1934.
- Hans H. Hildebrand / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships: Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford,
- Hans Georg Prager: DDG Hansa - From liner service to special shipping , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford (1976), ISBN 3-7822-0105-1
- Reinhold Thiel: The history of the DDG Hansa. Volume 1: 1881-1918. HM Hauschild, Bremen, 2010, ISBN 3-8975-7477-2