Neidenfels (ship, 1923)
 The second Neidenfels
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The second Neidenfels of the Deutsche Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft Hansa (DDG "Hansa"), which came into service in 1923 , belonged to a series of three cargo ships that the shipping company bought for service to the Persian Gulf . The three ships had been ordered by the German Levante Line from the Flender shipyard in Lübeck . The DDG "Hansa" then took over the orders.
In 1935 the three ships were sold to the Soviet Union . where they were used in the Far East. The Neidenfels , renamed Bolshoi Shantar , was lost on February 13, 1943 on a trip from Vladivostok to the USA when it ran aground on Bering Island and was declared a total loss.
The two sister ships were removed from Lloyd's Register in 1960 because no current information was available on them.
History of the ship
The Neidenfels of the DDG "Hansa" was given the name of the type ship of the shipping company's 8000 tdw cargo ships that came into service in 1896.
The first Neidenfels of 5384 GRT built by Wigham, Richardson & Co was in service with the shipping company until 1919. Launched in 1914 in Vigo, Spain, it was delivered from Spain to France in 1919. Since 1925 as an Enrichetta under the Italian flag, it was canceled in 1932.
The ships were named after Neidenfels Castle in Palatinate .
The second Neidenfels was one of a series of ships that were built at the Flender shipyard in Lübeck for the Levante service of German shipping companies.
The orders of the various shipping companies were mostly taken over by the Rhederei-Treuhand-Gesellschaft . This company, later a bank, was founded by the shipping companies in order to negotiate with the German Reich the compensation for the war and surrender losses and then to distribute the granted subsidies appropriately. Since many shipping companies had ordered more ships than they could actually pay for, the Reederei-Treuhand-Bank had to cancel these orders or transfer them to other shipping companies. The Olympia , Therapia and Thessalia ordered by the German Levante Line with the construction numbers 39, 42/43 came to the DDG "Hansa" and were launched as Hohenfels , Neidenfels and Tannenfels . Similar ships were delivered to Hapag and the Continentale Reederei .
The Neidenfels was launched on May 16, 1923 as the second building for DDG "Hansa" and was delivered on July 27, 1923. The ship, measured at 3,018 GRT, had, like the sister ships, a length of 107.32 m over all, a width of 14.69 m and a draft of 6.71 m. The three-cylinder, triple expansion engine of 1550 HP supplied by the Seebeck shipyard enabled the ship to reach a speed of 10.2 knots (kn). The new building had a carrying capacity of 5588 tdw and was operated with a mixed crew of 51 men.
Mission history
The three ships built by Flender came into the service of the Bremen shipping company in 1923 and were used from February 1924 on the newly opened line to the Persian Gulf , where the ports of Bushir and Basra were regularly called; further ports were added as required. However, the ships were much smaller than the other DDG “Hansa” ships in service to the Middle East.
The shipping company therefore sold all three ships in June 1935 to the Soviet Union, which had been trying since 1932 to modernize its merchant fleet by buying newer ships in Western countries.
Under the Soviet flag
The three Hohenfels- type ships were then assigned to the Soviet Union's merchant fleet and relocated to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky as their home port.
The Neidenfels was renamed Bolshoi Shantar after an island in the Sea of Okhotsk and served with her sisters on the Soviet Pacific coast. When the Soviet Union became a war party on the side of the Allies as a result of the German attack in 1941, it also benefited from the American leasing and lending laws and the ships also called at the USA.
On February 13, 1943, the Bolshoi Shantar stranded on a journey from Vladivostok to the USA in heavy weather on Bering Island ; the wreck was declared a total write-off.
The two sister ships survived the war. When no information about the ships became known, the Chaviacha and Sima were deleted from the registers in 1960.
The Hohenfels- class ships
| Surname | Shipyard | GRT tdw |
Launched in service |
further fate |
| Hohenfels (2) | Flender construction no. 39 |
3021 5588 |
03/25/1923 06/05/1923 |
planned as the Olympia of the DLL, opened the service to the Persian Gulf on February 20, 1924, sold to the Soviet Union in June 1935: Chaviacha , canceled in 1960 |
| Neidenfels (2) | Flender construction no. 42 |
3048 5588 |
16.05.1923 07.27.1923 |
planned as Therapia of the DLL, service to the Persian Gulf, sold to the Soviet Union in June 1935: Bolshoy Shantar , stranded February 13, 1943 |
| Fir rock (2) | Flender construction no. 43 |
3048 5588 |
July 6, 1923 September 20, 1923 |
planned as Thessalia of the DLL, service to the Persian Gulf, sold to the Soviet Union in June 1935: Sima , deleted in 1960 |
| similar | buildings | with other shipping companies | ||
| Georgia | Flender construction no. 36 |
2967 5580 |
17.06.1922 08.29.1922 |
Hapag , Levante service, then South America service, January 1935 to Hamburg Süd (charter, 30 June 1936 sale): 1937 João Pessŏa , 1939 in Vigo , December 1940 relocation to Bordeaux , 26 March to 1 August 1941 successful journey when Natal to Brazil and back on June 8, 1942, when attempting another voyage to Brazil, ran into a shoal before San Sebastian and sank; |
| Livadia | Flender construction no. 37 |
3083 5360 |
11.02.1922 02.23.1923 |
Hapag, Levante service, but also other lines, Increasingly Africa Service, February 1935 to DOAL (charter, June 30, 1936 sale), 1939 in Vigo, November 16 to December 10, 1939 Blockade breakthrough to Hamburg, October 4, 1943 sunk by British coastal artillery off Boulogne , five dead; |
| Kyphissia | Flender construction no. 38 |
2964 5568 |
02/14/1923 04/1923 |
Hapag, Levante-Dienst, March 1943 Transporter on the Norwegian coast, May 17, 1943 sunk off Den Helder by British torpedo bombers; |
| Free field | Flender construction no. 40 |
2875 5442 |
17.06.1922 08.29.1922 |
Continentale Reederei AG, 1926 Hapag: Mexico , Central America Service, 1928 Stinnes, 1931: Orissa , 1931 Hapag: Thessalia , 1935 to the German Levante Line , 11 November 1942 sunk off Benghazi after being hit by bombs ; |
| Gutfeld | Flender construction no. 41 |
2875 5414 |
17.06.1922 08.29.1922 |
Continentale, 1926 Hapag: Cuba , Central America Service, Stinnes, Olinda Hapag Macedonia , 1935 to the German Levante Line , torpedoed off Sousa by HMS Umbra on December 13, 1942, stranded ; |
Individual evidence
- ^ Melting head: The German merchant shipping. 1974, p. 38.
- ^ Melting head: The German merchant shipping. 1974, p. 18.
- ^ Melting head: The German merchant shipping. 1974, p. 44f.
- ^ DLL incorporated into Hapag in 1920, melting head: Die Deutsche Handelsschiffahrt. 1974, p. 28f.
- ↑ next Lech , Frankfurt and Karnak used that went but lost on the trip to France
- ↑ Kludas: The ships of the Hamburg-Süd. 1976, p. 120.
- ↑ Kludas: The ships of the German Africa lines. 1975, p. 92.
- ↑ Fall of Kyphissia
- ^ Fall of the Thessalia
- ↑ Fall of Macedonia
Web links
literature
- Arnold Kludas: The ships of the German Africa Lines 1880 to 1945 . Verlag Gerhard Stalling, 1975, ISBN 3-7979-1867-4 .
- Arnold Kludas: The ships of Hamburg-Süd 1871 to 1951 . Gerhard Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg 1976, ISBN 3-7979-1875-5 .
- Hans Georg Prager: DDG Hansa - from liner services to special shipping. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1976, ISBN 3-7822-0105-1 .
- Reinhardt Schmelzkopf: German merchant shipping 1919–1939 . Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1974, ISBN 3-7979-1847-X .
- Reinhold Thiel: The history of the DDG Hansa. Volume 1: 1881-1918. HM Hauschild, Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89757-477-9 .