Okahandja (ship)

**Okahandja** p1
Ship data
flag	German Empire
Shipyard	Stülcken , Hamburg
Build number	282
Whereabouts	unexplained
Ship dimensions and crew
length	16.50 m ( Lüa )
width	4.27 m
measurement	45 GRT
Machine system
machine	Steam engine
Machine ; performance	100 hp (74 kW)
propeller	1

The Okahandja was a ship of the governorate of German South West Africa . It thus belonged to the flotilla of the protected area.

history

The Okahandja was built in Hamburg in 1905. It was named after the town of Okahandja in German South West Africa.

Initially, the ship belonged to the Hamburg Woermann Line . In 1906 the Imperial Gouvernement of German South West Africa bought the ship as a tour boat for the Gouvernement. It was stationed in Lüderitzbucht .

Nothing is known about the further fate of the Okahandja .

literature

Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815–1945, Vol. 7: Landing associations II: Landing vehicles in the narrow sense (Part 2), landing ferries, landing support vehicles, transporters; Ships and boats of the army, ships and boats of the sea pilots / air force, colonial vehicles , Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1990, page 218.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Gustav Adolf Fischer: Flottillen, in: Heinrich Schnee (Hrsg.): German Colonial Lexicon . Volume I, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 644 f.

[Fischer-1] Gustav Adolf Fischer: Flottillen, in: Heinrich Schnee (Hrsg.): German Colonial Lexicon . Volume I, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 644 f.