Monte Penedo
 the Monte Penedo as Sabará of Lloyd Brasileiro
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The general cargo ship Monte Penedo was the first sea-going diesel motor ship built in Germany .
In 1917 the ship lying in Rio Grande do Sul since 1914 was confiscated by Brazil and put back into service as Sabara . Renamed Ascanio Coelho in 1948 , the motor ship was only canceled in 1969.
history
In February 1912, at the same time as the world's first sea-going motor ship, the Selandia, began her maiden voyage , the Monte Penedo was launched at Kiel's Howaldtswerke for the Hamburg shipping company Hamburg-Süd . The new building was put into service on August 12, 1912. The drive consisted of two four-cylinder crosshead two-stroke engines of the type 4S47 (or 4SNo.9a) from the Sulzer brothers from Winterthur, Switzerland . The machines were the first Sulzer crosshead two-stroke engines to be used on a ship. Each had an output of 850 hp at a speed of 160 revolutions per minute. In addition, two four-stroke diesel engines with 100 hp each were installed as auxiliary machines.
The Monte Penedo came into service as the first ocean-going motor ship built in Germany. However, in June 1912, HAPAG had put its first sea-going motor ship with the Christian X. into service and presented it to the Kaiser at the Kieler Woche. On July 23, 1912, the Hapag ship made its maiden voyage across the Atlantic to the West Indies, Mexico and New Orleansan as the first motor ship flying the German flag . The combi-ship was built by Burmeister & Wain in Denmark as Fiona and was the second sea-going motor ship worldwide after her sister ship Selandia .
In the service of Hamburg - Süd
On August 31, 1912, the Monte Penedo began her maiden voyage from Hamburg via Lisbon to Rio Grande do Sul. It went on to Buenos Aires, where the liners were replaced with improved specimens as a precaution, as cracks had been found in the first liners. Then the ship ran to Rosario to pick up the return load. On March 1, 1914, the Monte Penedo arrived back in Hamburg and had covered the last stage in 30 days without any problems. The total consumption averaged 7200 kg of fuel per day at sea. Compared to a steamer, it required ten fewer machine personnel. The ship set sail for a second voyage on March 24, 1914.
At the beginning of the First World War in South America, the Monte Penedo called at the Brazilian port of Rio Grande do Sul to avoid being taken away at sea by the Allies and lay there from 1914 to 1917.
Under the Brazilian flag
In August 1917, the ship was finally confiscated by the Brazilian government and renamed Sabará . In 1919 she was chartered to the French government, where she remained in service until August 1922. After returning in 1922, Companhia de Navegacao Lloyd Brasileiro managed the ship and acquired it entirely in 1927. During the Second World War, the ship was not detectable within convoys.
During the Second World War, the engines were replaced by new, more powerful Sulzer engines in 1942 or not until 1949. In 1948, the ship was renamed the Ascanio Coelho and it remained in service for another two decades under the new name, before it was finally launched in December 1969 Rio de Janeiro was scrapped.
literature
- Bruno Bock: Built by HDW . Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG 150 years. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1988, ISBN 3-7822-0450-6 .
- Arnold Kludas : The ships of Hamburg-Süd 1871 to 1951 . Gerhard Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg 1976, ISBN 3-7979-1875-5 .
Web links
- Twin screw motor-ship Monte Penedo (PDF; 3.5 MB) from The marine engineer and naval architect. October 1912
- Land and marine Diesel engines (1915) many pictures and detailed drawings
- The Monte Penedo at Derbysulzers (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e f Arnold Kludas : The ships of Hamburg-Süd 1871-1951. P. 60.
- ↑ SELANDIA a century of Diesel propulsion in worldwide shipping ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.1 MB)
- ↑ so http://www.derbysulzers.com/
