Nachtigal (ship, 1885)

Nightingale

The nightingale and the Eloby at the Sanaga estuary (approx. 1895–1898)

Ship data flag German Empire Shipyard Germania shipyard , Kiel Build number 25th Launch 1885

Ship dimensions and crew length 34 m ( Lüa ) width 5.3 m Draft Max. 1 m displacement 150 t

Machine system machine Steam engine Machine performance 180 hp (132 kW)

The Nachtigal was a ship named after Gustav Nachtigal belonging to the German colony of Cameroon .

history

On the orders of the German Emperor Wilhelm I , the steamer destined for the governor of Cameroon at the Germania shipyard in Gaarden near Kiel was christened Nachtigal on June 20, 1885, exactly two months after Gustav Nachtigal's death on April 20, 1885 .

On August 5, 1886, the nightingale arrived in Duala , the capital of the colony of Cameroon, and served as a government steamer. The ship remained in service in this task until May 25, 1895, when it was replaced by the new government steamer Nachtigal .

Drawing of the nightingale

The old nightingale was renamed Cameroon and from then on served as a sounding boat for water surveying . In 1897 it was handed over to the West African station of the Imperial Navy for this purpose . In 1901 what was now Cameroon was sold. The further fate of the ship is unknown.

literature

• Erich Gröner : The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 7: Landing vehicles in the narrow sense Part 2 : Landing ferries , landing support vehicles, transporters, ships and boats of the army, ships and boats of the sea pilots / air force, colonial vehicles. Munich 1990, p. 216f., And volume. 5, p. 190.

Web links

Commons : Nachtigal (1885)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Müller: Political History of the Present: XIX. The year 1885. Springer, Berlin 1886, p. 75