Palatinate (ship, 1893)

The Pfalz was a cargo ship of the North German Lloyd .

history

Gertrud Woermann leaving Hamburg in 1904

The Pfalz (3874 GRT) was also launched as a replica of the steamer Roland at Wigham Richardson & Co. for North German Lloyd on July 31, 1893 and was delivered on October 22. On October 27, 1893, she was the first Lloyd steamer to embark on a trip to South America directly in Bremen. This ship also remained in service in South America. In the spring of 1903 she was alternately in use with the new passenger steamer Schleswig (6955 BRT, built in 1902) and the Wittekind to Buenos Aires, while the former Rickmersdampfer Norderney , Borkum and Helgoland (~ 5500 BRT, 1896) had an intermediate, more freight-oriented one Processed the timetable. On the other South American line from Lloyd to Santos , the steamers of the Crefeld class ( Crefeld , Halle , Bonn and Aachen ) as well as the Erlangen (5285 BRT, 1902) and the Wittenberg (3689 BRT, 1895 ex Thekla of the Kingsin line) were used . The former Brazil steamer Coblenz and the remaining sister ship Mainz were meanwhile going to Cuba.

The Palatinate was sold to the Woermann Line in May 1904 and renamed Gertrud Woermann (II). At Blohm & Voss it was lengthened by 17 m (4603 GRT) and received a passenger facility for 82 passengers in the 1st class, 36 in the 2nd class and 46 in the III. Class. On July 21st she took up the service from Hamburg to West Africa. On a troop transport trip during the Herero uprising , she was stranded on November 19 or 20, 1904 in the fog near Swakopmund and was a total loss. The 400 soldiers and 375 horses on board could be rescued with rafts, with the help of the large cruiser SMS Vineta . The wreck was sold for cannibalization, and in 1911 guano was extracted from it .

Her predecessor Gertrud Woermann (I) (1816 BRT, 1886) was stranded in fog near Port Nolloth off the west coast of South Africa on a trip from Swakopmund to Cape Town in 1903 .

See also : List of shipwrecks on the coast of Namibia

literature

• Noel RP Bonsor: North Atlantic Seaway , Vol. 2, p. 557
• Carl Herbert: War voyages of German merchant ships . Broschek & Co, Hamburg 1934.
• Arnold Kludas : The ships of the German Africa Lines 1880 to 1945 . Verlag Gerhard Stalling, 1975.
• Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping 1850 to 1990 . Ernst Kabel Verlag, 1986.
• Arnold Kludas : The ships of the North German Lloyd 1857 to 1919 . Koehler's publishing company, 1991.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Brazilian newspaper article with pictures of the arrival of the Palatinate in Santos 100 years ago )
2. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: old photo of the Palatinate )
3. ↑ Shipwrecks. Henties Bay Tourism. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
4. ↑ Article on the stranding of Gertrud Woermann in the DAL News ( Memento of the original from November 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.