Mimi Horn

**Mimi Horn**
	The Mimi Horn in Hamburg
Ship data
flag	German Empire
Ship type	Combined ship
home port	Hamburg
Owner	HC Horn , Flensburg
Shipyard	Schichau-Werke , Elbing
Build number	1189
Launch	February 17, 1928
Commissioning	July 18, 1928
Whereabouts	Self-sunk on March 28, 1940
Ship dimensions and crew
length	100.3 m ( Lüa ) 95.7 m ( Lpp )
width	14.85 m
measurement	4007 GRT
crew	42
Machine system
machine	5-cylinder Sulzer Schichau - diesel engine
Machine ; performance	2,500 hp (1,839 kW)
Top ; speed	13 kn (24 km / h)
propeller	1
Transport capacities
Load capacity	5200 dw
Permitted number of passengers	30th

The Mimi Horn was the fourth combined ship that the H. C. Horn shipping company procured for service to the West Indies . She was the second of four sister ships that the shipping company ordered from Schichau-Werke .

In 1939, when the war broke out, Mimi Horn sought refuge in Curaçao . In early March 1940 she tried to get home from there. It was in Denmark road by a British auxiliary cruiser provided and put themselves at 65 ° 49 '0 " N , 28 ° 32' 0" W coordinates: 65 ° 49 '0 " N , 28 ° 32' 0" W . 65.816666666667 -28.533333333333

History of the ship

The Flensburg company HC Horn first sent a freighter to the West Indies in 1921. The success led to the establishment of a freight line whose ships could take up to 12 passengers. The good capacity utilization of the cabins prompted shipping line manager Heinrich Christian Horn to procure combi ships with a larger passenger capacity. In 1926, for example, the Reiherstieg shipyard in Hamburg delivered two motor ships with a passenger facility for 32 first class passengers and 18 third class passengers. Class. From 1928 four more new buildings from the Schichau works followed. In 1932, the 4132 GRT HC Horn was the last ship to be delivered by the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft ; it was the only large sea ship built in 1932.

Under the hull number resulting 1189 Mimi Horn ran on 17 February 1928 by the stack . It was 100.3 m long and 14.8 m wide. She and her three sister ships were of 5-cylinder Sulzer Schichau - diesel engines powered by 2500 PSe capable of a speed of 13 knots allowed (kn). The Mimi Horn was measured with 4007 GRT and had a load capacity of 5200 tdw. The passenger facility of the Schichau series offered space for 30 first class passengers in the large superstructure amidships. The ship was delivered on July 18, 1928.

The ships of the Horn Line bore the names of family members. The new Mimi Horn was the fourth ship of the shipping company with this name. Most recently, a cargo ship of 2,445 GRT built by Henry Koch in Lübeck in 1922 had this name until it was sold in 1926.

Mission history of the Mimi Horn

The Mimi Horn began her maiden voyage from Hamburg to Central America on August 4, 1928. Since 1927, the HC Horn shipping company has operated two services to the West Indies together with Hapag . They ran from Hamburg via Venezuela and Colombia to the east coast of Central America and served the so-called island line to Cuba and Jamaica.

The Hapag Orinoco, which came into service in 1928

In addition to the combined ships of the Horn Line, Hapag initially used older ships such as the Grunewald and the former Stinnes ships Artemisia and Albingia for passenger service, but also procured modern, large passenger motor ships such as the Orinoco and Magdalena . a. In 1935, the two shipping companies separated again as part of the state-decreed unbundling and the hiring of even larger ships ( Caribia , Cordillera ). The seven combination ships of the shipping company, which had moved to the Slomanhaus in Hamburg since 1933, now served a service via Belgium and England to Curacao, Venezuela, but also to Colombia and the Dominican Republic. In addition to the combination ships for 30 passengers, the shipping company also had the smaller motor ship Frida Horn . In addition, the shipping company used two smaller feeders in the Caribbean with the Zulia from 1755 GRT to 1935 and the Karibia with 428 GRT. Many emigrants, including a large number of Jews, also traveled with the Horn Line.

The Mimi Horn left on July 22, 1939, the last time Germany with only five emigrants. Due to the warnings about the imminent outbreak of war, she called at Curacao from Cartagena , Colombia on August 27, where she stayed with a large number of German ships until the spring of 1940. The small motor ship Karibia and the combined ship Henry Horn had also found refuge here from the shipping company . The sister ship Heinz Horn had left the port before the outbreak of war and reached Germany on October 1st.
In the spring of 1940 it was decided that four of the ships moored in Curacao should try to break out. In addition to the Mimi Horn , the combined ships Hanover of the NDL as well as Seattle and Vancouver of the Hapag should try the breakthrough home.
The German ships, which were forcibly placed in an outer roadstead, were monitored at sea by the French school cruiser Jeanne d'Arc and two British ships. When the French cruiser unexpectedly expired on March 4 and was replaced by a Canadian destroyer, the Germans decided on the long-prepared breakout. Mimi Horn and Seattle escaped in the darkness in which the Joan of Arc returned. Hanover and Vancouver stayed behind because they couldn't get their machines clear enough. The Hanover managed to break out the following night; however, it did not escape its persecutors, who finally caught up with it.

The Transylvania

The solo Mimi Horn escaped from the Caribbean and reached the Denmark Strait between Iceland and Greenland , where she was discovered on March 28, 1940 by the auxiliary cruiser Transylvania (16,923 GRT, 16 kn). The captain saw no chance to escape the big three-chimney, evacuated his ship on the lifeboats and sank it himself.

The motor and combi ships of the HC Horn shipping company

Surname	Shipyard	GRT tdw	Launched in service	Another fate
Frida Horn	Flensburger SG building no. 397	3184 2532	06/15/1925 10.1925	Arrived in Hamburg on September 28, 1939, 1940 Transporter A25 , January 1941 torpedo clearing ship , February 1946 to the Soviet Union: Bogdan Khmelnickij , demolished in 1960;
Minna Horn Claus Horn	Reiherstieg shipyard building no. 577	3179 4220	28.05.1925 01.16.1926	1930 renamed Claus Horn , 1939 to the Kriegsmarine, submarine tender Neisse , 1947 to Yugoslavia: Topusko , demolition in 1961;
Waltraut Horn Henry Horn	Reiherstieg shipyard building no. 578	3164 4220	14.01.1926 04.17.1926	Briefly in 1936: Presidente Gomez , then Henry Horn , 1939 refuge in Curacao, confiscated in 1940, Dutch Bonaire , from 1947 with KNSM , broken up in 1957;
Ingrid Horn	Schichau-Werke building no. 1187	4006 5200	10/11/1927 04.1928	May 1940 Sperrbrecher B , 1941 Sperrbrecher 25 , July 24, 1944 sunk in Kiel after being hit by a bomb, 3 dead;
Mimi Horn	Schichau-Werke building no. 1189	4007 5200	02/17/1928 07/18/1928	Refuge in Curacao in 1939, attempted return to Germany in 1940, sunk on March 28, 1940 in the Denmark Strait itself
Heinz Horn	Schichau-Werke building no. 1190	3994 5200	21.07.1928 11.11.1928	Coming from Curacao on 19 September 1939, reached Kristiansand , barracks of the Kriegsmarine, 1946 to the Netherlands: Betuwe , 1947 Norwegian Livards , 1954 British Crete Avon , then Alderney , demolished in Hamburg in 1961;
Presidente Gomez Waltraut Horn	Schichau-Werke building no. 1200	3995 5200	25.11.1928 25.04.1929	Renamed in 1936, in May 1940 Sperrbrecher A , 1941 Sperrbrecher 24 , employed with the GMSA , 1946 with the Soviet Union Kuska , 1952/53 temporarily with the People's Navy as Kuschka ;
HC Horn	Flensburger SG building no. 423	4132 4950	July 16, 1932 November 3, 1932	End of August 1939 at Murmansk without passengers , temporarily housed the Kriegsmarine, March 1943 Sperrbrecher 27 , badly damaged by an air raid in the Bay of Lübeck on May 2, 1945, sunk loaded with gas ammunition in the Skagerrak on May 26, 1946.

Web links

literature

Horn-Linie 100 years of Horn-Linie 1882 - 1982 . Anniversary publication, Hamburg 1982
Gert Uwe Detlefsen / Friedrich-Wilhelm Kunze: Horn-Linie - the chronicle of a traditional shipping company , DF-Verlag Bad Segeberg, 1990
Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping 1850 to 1990 . Ernst Kabel Verlag, 1986ff.
Reinhardt Schmelzkopf: German merchant shipping 1919–1939 . Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg, ISBN 3 7979 1847 X .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c ^d ^e Arnold Kludas: The History of German Passenger Shipping 1850 to 1990 , Vol. IV Destruction and Rebirth 1914–1930 , p. 153
^ ^A ^b Arnold Kludas: The History of German Passenger Shipping 1850 to 1990 , Vol. V An era comes to an end 1930–1990 , p. 54
↑ melt head, p. 150
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Arnold Kludas: Passenger Shipping , Vol. IV, p. 154
^ Arnold Kludas, Vol. V, p. 54 ff.
^ Arnold Kludas, Vol. V, p. 56
^ Departures / passenger lists of the Horn ships via Bremen 1938/39
↑ The Mimi Horn July 22, 1939
↑ Fall of Ingrid Horn
↑ Fall of Mimi Horn
↑ sinking of the HC Horn

[Klu-1] A ^b ^c ^d ^e Arnold Kludas: The History of German Passenger Shipping 1850 to 1990 , Vol. IV Destruction and Rebirth 1914–1930 , p. 153

[HCH-2] A ^b Arnold Kludas: The History of German Passenger Shipping 1850 to 1990 , Vol. V An era comes to an end 1930–1990 , p. 54

[3] t head, p. 150

[Tab-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Arnold Kludas: Passenger Shipping , Vol. IV, p. 154

[klu2-5] Arnold Kludas, Vol. V, p. 54 ff.

[6] Arnold Kludas, Vol. V, p. 56

[7] Departures / passenger lists of the Horn ships via Bremen 1938/39

[8] The Mimi Horn July 22, 1939

[9] Fall of Ingrid Horn

[10] Fall of Mimi Horn

[11] sinking of the HC Horn