Naiade (ship, 1925)

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Ship data other ship names X 2026 from 1945, Richard Strauss from 1960 Owner Emil R. Retzlaff Shipyard Ostseewerft Build number 11 Launch May 15, 1925 Commissioning 1925 Whereabouts Canceled in 1972

Ship dimensions and crew length 31.4 m ( Lüa ) width 6.4 m Draft Max. 1.5 m displacement approx. 185 ts measurement 115 GRT   crew 6th

Machine system machine Diesel engine Machine performance 160 PS / 320 PS (after conversion) Top speed 11.5 kn (21 km / h) propeller 1

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 580

The Naiade was a passenger ship.

history

The Najade was built under construction number 11 by Ostseewerft AG in Stettin-Frauendorf for the Emil R. Retzlaff shipping company in Stettin . She was launched on May 15, 1925 and was delivered to the first owner on June 6 of the same year. At first she drove on a regular service between Stettin, Ziegenort , Altwarp and Neuwarp . After Retzlaff went bankrupt in 1931, the ship became the property of Maris Schiffahrts GmbH in Stettin, but continued to sail on the same route and was not renamed. In 1939, a new seven-cylinder engine was installed instead of the four-cylinder Sulzer diesel engine with equal pressure .

On June 26, 1940, the ship was taken over by the German Navy. The Naiade then served as a diving school boat until the end of March 1942 and was then used in other functions by the Navy. In May 1945 it was returned to its pre-war owner, who was now under the control of the British occupying forces. It was given the name X 2026 and the registration number 1019 and was used for hamster rides in the northern German coastal area in the post-war period .

In 1949 she was chartered to the Hamburg Blankenese Este Linie mbH company in Hamburg , which she used in the liner service between Hamburg, Blankenese and Wedel . In the early 1950s, the ship was used by school classes, among others, who used the holiday colony at Köhlbrand during the day and were driven home in the evening.

In November 1956 the ship became the property of OHG Piper & Co. In the same year, Pohl & Jozwiak in Hamburg converted. The ship received a new engine with 320 hp, which allowed a speed of 11.5 knots, while it had previously only reached 8.5 knots. For a short time, from 1959 to 1960, the ship was owned by Heinrich Sietas in Hamburg. From February 17, 1960, it had the registration number S 10213.

Until 1963 the ship belonged to the Hamburg-Blankenese-Este-Linie mbH company in Hamburg. During this time the name was changed to Richard Strauss . The ship continued to sail the Hamburg-Blankenese-Wedel route, even after it became the property of Hafen-Dampfschiffahrts AG (Hadag) in Hamburg on April 1, 1963 . On October 1, 1972, it was sold to Eisen & Metall in Hamburg for demolition.

literature

• Claus Rothe: German sea bathing ships 1830–1939 . transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-344-00393-3 , p. 123f.
• Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815–1945, Vol. 6: Port operations vehicles (II: excavators, recovery and diving vehicles, icebreakers, tugs, transport vehicles), yachts and Avisos, landing units (I) , Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1989, ISBN 3-7637-4805-9 , p. 51.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang K. Reich, With “Najade” on the holiday colony at Köhlbrand , August 26, 2018 on maritime-photographie.de . The article allows the conclusion that the ship already bore its ancestral name back then.
2. ↑ A picture of Richard Strauss from 1968 can be seen at www.elbdampfer-hamburg.de .
3. ↑ Najade on www.ziegenort.de