Mobil Oil shipping company
The forerunner of the Mobil Oil shipping company was the sea transport department of Deutsche Vacuum Oil Aktiengesellschaft in Hamburg.
history
In 1899, Mobil was founded in Hamburg (from 1955 as Mobil Oil AG in Germany) in Germany; it was entered in the Hamburg commercial register as the sales agency of the Vacuum Oil Company in Hamburg. The Vacuum Oil Company handled the import and sale of lubricating oils and greases that came from the USA in wooden barrels by ship to Hamburg. In 1905 the Deutsche Vacuum Oil Company in Hamburg received permission to build a crude oil refinery in Schulau , in 1911 the refinery in Bremen-Oslebshausen was established and in 1929 the Deutsche Vacuum Oil Company received the first Schulau tanker .
In 1955 the Vacuum Reederei GmbH was founded. In the fall of 1956, "Deutsche Vacuum AG" and with it "Vacuum Reederei GmbH" changed its name to "Deutsche Mobil Oil AG". Mobil's shipping activities in Germany ended in 1992 when the Jade was handed over to the Adratic Tanker Shipping Co. in Hamburg.
The fleet
The tank steamer Schulau with a measurement of 4,275 GRT and 6245 tdw was completed in 1922 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company Baltimore for its own account as Fort Mchenry and in 1923 sold as Vacoil to the Vacuum Oil Co., New York. In 1929 the steamer was transferred to the Deutsche Vacuum Oil Company as Schulau and sold to England in 1935. In 1942 it was sunk in the Mediterranean by the German submarine U 431.
In April 1939, DW Kremer Sohn delivered the coastal motor tanker Vacuum (760 tdw) to the Deutsche Vacuum Oil Co., which was taken over by the Navy for the Kiel-Holtenau aviator base in August .
In 1949 the tanker was taken over by Socony Vacuum Transportation Co., London and renamed Lacklan . In 1929 it was delivered as a Vacuoline from Lithgows, Port Glasgow to Vacuum Oil, London. In 1959 it was sold to Eisen & Metall AG Lehr & Co. in Bremerhaven for demolition.
The fourth ship, the motor tanker Faust , came as a new build from the Bremer Vulkan to Vacuum Reederei GmbH, Hamburg , in June 1955 and was transferred to Mobil Oil Reederei, Hamburg in September 1956. It was in service for Mobil Oil until 1962 and was sold to Turkey.
The motor tanker Oberg was delivered by DW Kremer Sohn in 1952 as Osterbek to Knöhr & Burchard and sold in 1958 to Mobil Oil Reederei, Hamburg. In 1973 it was sold to the Netherlands and demolished in Le Havre in 1977 .
The sixth and seventh ship, the turbine tankers Egmont and Tasso , came from the Bremen volcano in 1961 and 1962 as sister ships with 30,765 GRT. The Egmont was sold to Greek buyers in 1970 and chartered back for three years. It was canceled in Karachi in 1982. The Tasso drove for the Mobil until 1981 and was canceled in 1981 at Dah Yung Steel Manufacturing in Malaysia.
The motor tanker Mobil Jade (6,370 GRT) was delivered in 1975 as the largest ship in this shipyard by Schulte & Bruns Schiffswerft, Emden, to Mobil Oil Reederei, Hamburg, converted in 1978 and 1989 by the Nobiskrug shipyard and increased to 7,300 GRT. In 1991 the tanker was renamed Jade and sold to Greek shipowners in 1992 as Ionian Jade . In 1995 the tanker was put on the chain in Bremerhaven and forcibly auctioned for DM 800,000. In 2005 it was canceled in India.
In 1979, Mobil Oil Reederei, Hamburg, took over Al Bilad from Celmisia Shipping Co., Monrovia , which was renamed Mobil Weser and later Jeverland . It was delivered in 1967 by Hitachi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Sakai as Berge Sigval to the Norwegian shipping company Sigval Bergesen. In 1983 the tanker was renamed Jeverland , sold in 1984 and demolished in Chittagong in 1991.
Literature and Sources
- Deutsche Vakuum Oel AG in: Deutsche Reedereien Volume 9, 1998 Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen p. 190