Neptune (ship, 1926)

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Neptune p1
Ship data
Ship type Cable-laying tanker
Shipping company Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke , Nordenham
Shipyard Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
Whereabouts Canceled from January 19, 1961 in Antwerp
Ship dimensions and crew
length
134.40 m ( Lpp )
width 17.50 m
Draft Max. 9.90 m
measurement 7250 GRT
 
crew 56
Machine system
machine 2 × steam turbine
Machine
performanceTemplate: Infobox ship / maintenance / service format 		1,987 kW (2,702 hp)
Top
speed 		12 kn (22 km / h)
propeller 2 × fixed propellers

The combined cable ships and tankers Neptune represented a type of ship represents, with which you both submarine cable laying and crude oil as bulk cargo could be transported.

history

The Neptune as the only representative of this type was on Jan. 26, 1926 at the shipyard Blohm & Voss in Hamburg left under yard number 472 from the stack and on April 15 of that year to the order as a shipping company operating expectant Nordenhamer company North German Seekabelwerke AG passed. In addition to laying submarine cables, it was also used to transport oil between the United States and Europe . The basic idea behind this ship was either to avoid the ballast trip to the loading port, which is typical for tanker shipping, or to be able to function as a conventional tanker if there is insufficient demand in the submarine cable business. It was constructed in the Isherwood system except for parts of the fore and aft .

During the Second World War, the ship was used as a supply vehicle for the Condor Legion in Spain and handed over to Great Britain as a reparation payment after the end of the war in 1945 . The new British owners then abandoned the possibility of operating as a cable lay and had the ship converted into a conventional tanker and put it back into service in 1947 under its new name Thule .

After a further thirteen years of service, the ship was sold to a Belgian demolition and arrived in Antwerp in January 1961 for demolition .

Loading space arrangement

The ship was divided into the following areas:

  • End-to-end cable laying facilities amidships with cable pulley brackets in the fore and aft.
  • Round cable tanks with cable routing cones arranged amidships and open access to the double floor below. These could also be used as tanks during the oil journey.
  • Side oil tanks and summer oil tanks arranged above the cable tanks.

literature

  • The cable steamer "Neptune". In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers , Volume 71, No. 3 (January 15, 1927), pp. 92–94.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die Neptun on Miramar Ship Index (English) ID = 213053 viewed June 10, 2009 (no longer available online) ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ a b Dudszus, Alfred; Köpcke, Alfred: The big book of ship types . Augsburg, Weltbild Verlag (licensed edition by transpress, Berlin), 1995. - ISBN 3-89350-831-7
  3. ^ Archive Schiffbau & Schiffahrt eV: Building description of Neptune . In: Werft * Reederei * Hafen 1926, No. 22, pages 543ff
  4. ^ Archives Schiffbau & Schiffahrt eV: Construction details of the Neptune . In: Werft * Reederei * Hafen 1927, No. 24, pages 553–555