Naiade (ship, 1894)

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The Najade was a paddle steamer of the Bremen shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) serving as a seaside resort ship in the North Sea .

Construction and technical data

The ship, a side-wheelers with a chimney and two masts, was launched in April 1894 at the shipyard of F. Schichau in Gdansk from the stack . It was 71.21 m long and 9.2 m wide (without the side wheel arches ) and measured 724 GRT . A triple expansion steam engine allowed a speed of 16 knots . The Najade was until the commissioning of the 844 GRT slightly larger Nixe in 1899, the largest and most elegant seaside resort ship of the NDL and was referred to by the shipping company and the press as a "saloon express steamer". It was equipped with a promenade deck, a large dining salon, a ladies' salon and a separate smoking salon and offered space for 670 passengers . Sleeping cabins were also available.

fate

The ship was put into service in May 1894 and served, in the summer months, the routes from Bremerhaven to Helgoland and Norderney . (On to Borkum and other East Frisian islands we went from Norderney with ships from AG Ems, founded in 1889 ).

From 1898 the Naiade , like the mermaid , moved to Naples for the winter months and carried out excursions to Sorrento , Ischia , Capri and the Blue Grotto .

During the First World War , the Najade was commandeered by the Imperial Navy from March 18, 1916 to July 1918 , armed and used as an auxiliary ship (merchant protection boat Hs 59 , later Hs 19 ). After the end of the war, the ship was returned to North German Lloyd on April 3, 1919 and used again in the North Sea bathing service. In June 1920 it was sent to the Baltic Sea to reinforce the East Prussian Sea Service , when native East and West Prussians traveled across the Baltic Sea to their places of birth using the so-called "voting trips" in July 1920 to vote in the referendums in the wake of the Versailles Treaty for the whereabouts to coordinate their home in Germany. However, shortly before the start of the actual operation , the Naiade suffered a boiler damage and was therefore stuck in Stolpmünde without being used. After repairs, the Najade drove back on its traditional route between Bremerhaven, Norderney and Helgoland until it was replaced in 1927 by the new Roland, which was more than three times the size .

The old ship was sold in 1928 and broken up in Rotterdam in 1929 .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Baedeker: Italy: Unter-Italien und Sizilien , Twelfth Edition, Leipzig, 1899, p. 151
  2. ↑ Kurt Gerdau: The voting success in East Prussia: The remaining ships of the German fleet were successfully used for this. In: Das Ostpreußenblatt , volume 26, June 30, 1990, p. 10

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