Naiade (ship, 1888)

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The Najade was the first full ship to be built from steel in Germany . She was sunk by a German submarine during the First World War , now sailing under the Norwegian flag .

Construction and technical data

The ship was in 1888 with the hull number 65 in the shipyard Joh. C. Tecklenborg in Geestemünde for the Bremen shipping company Gildemeister & Ries from the stack . The three - master rigged as a full ship with two decks was 79.9 m long and 12 m wide and had a maximum draft of 6.8 m . The Naiade was measured with 1773 BRT and 1677 NRT .

fate

The Najade , like all ships of the shipping company, which was converted to the stock company Visurgis AG in 1897 , was used in tramp shipping . In May 1912 it was sold to Samuel Marcussen (1879–1960) in Oslo .

On March 21, 1917, the Naiad , laden with oil cake , was sailing from Galveston (Texas) to Denmark when she was at position 59 ° 35 ′ 0 ″  N , 2 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  E of between the Orkneys and Shetlands the German submarine U 59 (Wilhelm von Fircks ) was torpedoed and sunk. All 21 men of the crew were killed, as well as four men of the armed guard posted on the ship by the auxiliary cruiser HMS Ebro .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Merkantilt Biografisk Leksikon, Yrkesforlaget, Oslo, 1935, p. 506 (digital edition 2009)
  2. ↑ The passenger steamer Ebro (8480 BRT, 16 knots ) was immediately put into service by the Royal Navy on March 23, 1915 as an "armed trade cruiser" after its completion . It was armed with six 6-inch guns and two 6-pounders and had a crew of 263 men. He served until October 2, 1919. ( http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-08-HMS_Ebro.htm )
  3. ↑ http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1917-03Mar.htm

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