Neptunia (ship)
| Neptunia | |
|---|---|
| Technical data (overview) | |
| Ship type: | Passenger ship |
| Flag: | Netherlands (1920–1948), Panama (1948–1958) |
| Measurement: | 10,519 GRT from 1933: 10,474 GRT |
| Displacement: | |
| Length between perpendiculars: | 147.00 m from 1933: 154.20 m |
| Width: | 18.10 m |
| Draft: | 8.84 m |
| Drive: | 2 × triple expansion steam engine on 2 fixed propellers |
| Total output: | 7000 iPS |
| Speed: | 15/16 knots |
| Team: | |
| Builder: | Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij , Amsterdam |
| Delivery: | February 1920 to the Stoomvaart Maatschappij "Nederland" , Rotterdam |
The Neptunia was a Panamanian passenger ship owned by Greek Lines that opened the first transatlantic passenger liner service from a German port after the end of World War II .
history
Johan de Witt
The ship was on 2 May 1919, the hull number 150 of the shipyard Nederlandsche Maatschappij Scheepsbouw in Amsterdam launched in and in February 1920 under the name de Johan Witt to his owners who Stoomvaart Maatschappij "Nederland" in Rotterdam passed. It began its maiden voyage for service via Southampton and Suez to the Dutch East Indies on July 27, 1927 and when it was commissioned it had 353 passenger seats in three classes (1st class: 197, 2nd class: 120 and 3rd class: 36). After the ship was laid in December 1930 , it was lengthened by a good seven meters by converting the fore ship to Maier shape in 1932/33 in order to replace the burnt-out Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft from October 1933 .
After another layover in Surabaya , the Johan de Witt was taken over by Great Britain during World War II and arrived in Sydney on August 20, 1940 , where she was converted for use as a troop transport. In October 1940 she took Australian soldiers on board in Melbourne and transported them to Egypt in the "US5B" convoy . Until the end of the war she was used by the Allies with her Dutch crew under the command of the Orient Line.
At the end of the war, the Johan de Witt was returned to the Nederland Line, for which she sailed for the first time as an emigrant ship from IJmuiden via Batavia to Cairns on February 4, 1947 , where she arrived on March 13. From there she drove via Sydney, where she arrived on March 20, to Melbourne, Fremantle and via Batavia back to Europe.
Neptunia
On December 15, 1948, the Johan de Witt was sold to the shipping company Cia. Maritime del Este the Greek Coulandris Brothers sold them for the Greek Line under Panama flag brought in and Neptunia renamed. After extensive renovation, during which a chimney was removed, it had a passenger capacity of 250 seats in the first and 560 seats in the tourist class. First, the Neptunia was used in the liner service between the Mediterranean and New York .
Three years before the first ship flying the German flag to start post-war service to New York with the Berlin of Norddeutscher Lloyd , the Neptunia began this transatlantic service on April 26, 1951 with her first departure from Bremerhaven's Columbuskaje . Among others, 113 German seafarers were hired on board. The tickets were sold through the Hapag-Lloyd travel agency. After the successful start of the service promoted by Bremen's political and shipping circles, Canberra and Columbia were also incorporated in the same year . In 1954 the Neptunia was sold to the Neptunia Shipping Co. in Panama and from 1955 the trio around the Neptunia was switched to alternate service to Canada and the USA .
The Neptunia later had a collision in which her forecastle was severely damaged.
On November 2, 1957, the ship stranded on Daunt Rock as it entered Cobh , was then put aground and lifted four months later. Since it was classified as an economic total loss (Constructive Total Loss) due to its old age and the severe damage to the soil, demolition began on March 7, 1958 in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht .
literature
- Passenger service to New York. In: Ship & Harbor. No. 8, August 2009, p. 70.
- Peter Plowman: Australian Migrant Ships 1946–1977. Rosenberg Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1-877058-40-8 , p. 8 and p. 78.
Individual evidence
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: The Neptunia on Miramar Ship Index (English) )
