Polar Ecuador class
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The Polar Ecuador class , his shipping company and Polar -countries class called ship class was a series of motor vessels of the shipping company Hamburg Süd . The reefer ships of the Hamburg-South American Steamship Company Eggert & Amsinck were the largest and fastest reefer ships under the German flag when they were built.
history
After the good experience that Hamburg-Süd had gained with the ship automation of the ships Polarlicht and Polarstern (new ships built in 1963 and 1964 based on designs by Cäsar Pinnau ), it ordered a sextet of a technically highly developed ship type from the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, which was put into service in 1967/68. With the concept of the largely automated engine system, with two medium-speed four-stroke diesel engines for heavy fuel oil operation with cylinders in a V arrangement, with their compact design enabling a high speed of almost 23 knots, the shipping company hoped for an improvement in profitability. The susceptibility of the machine system, especially at the beginning, reduced the success of the technically innovative series.
The lead ship of the class was the Polar Ecuador , which was delivered on October 21, 1967 . She was also the 35th ship that the shipyard delivered to the Hamburg Süd shipping company. The end of the class was the Polar Paraguay , which was handed over on December 23, 1968. The ship caught fire on December 10, 1990 as Chios Faith near West Hinder and was scrapped in Turkey the following year.
During the first year of operation of the Polar Ecuador class, one ship after the other returned to its shipyard with damage to the auxiliary diesels and was converted. The reason was an innovation in the class, which was built in at the request of the shipping company, to generate the energy for the cooling system operation via the two 1,250 kVA shaft generators that were driven by the two medium-speed heavy oil main engines. With this principle, so the calculation of the shipping company, expensive auxiliary diesels could be saved, which normally operate the cooling systems. The four remaining diesel generators were originally supposed to run in port operations and serve as a reserve. Due to initial malfunctions in the shaft generators planned for sea operation and the electrical slip clutches, the auxiliary diesel engines running at 1800 rpm, which were obtained from Great Britain on the basis of a foreign exchange compensation agreement, had to run much longer than originally planned. They then collapsed in rows. Ultimately, Blohm + Voss converted all ships to the more robust auxiliary diesels originally intended. During the renovation phase, comments such as: " Our quays are black from white ships " or corrupted horns like " Polar-glieks-wedder-dor class " were loud in the harbor area . The series of damages was the largest recourse the shipyard had ever suffered, because all ships had started long-term charter with the Swedish Salén shipping company .
The ships ran with Hamburg Süd until 1977/8 and were then sold to Liberia and chartered back for many years. The Hamburg-Süd charters expired between 1982 and 1984, and the technically sophisticated ships were finally scrapped in the early to mid-1990s.
The ships
| Polar Ecuador class | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building name | Shipyard / construction number |
IMO number | Launched delivery |
Renaming and whereabouts | |
| Polar Ecuador | Blohm + Voss / 853 | 6721591 | July 15, 1967 October 21, 1967 |
Chico's Spirit (1982) → canceled | |
| Polar Argentina | Blohm + Voss / 854 | 6728135 | September 9, 1967 January 30, 1968 |
Chico's Faith (1982) → Faith → canceled in Aliaga in 1991 | |
| Polar Columbia | Blohm + Voss / 855 | 6730035 | October 14, 1967 March 1, 1968 |
Aegean Progress (1984) → Frio Progress (1986) → Frio Venezuela (1988) → Miramar (1993) → canceled from April 27, 1998 at Kathiawar Ship Brokers in Alang | |
| Polar Brasil | Blohm + Voss / 856 | 6804032 | November 25, 1967 June 24, 1968 |
Yukon (1985) → Yucatan (1986) → canceled from March 29, 1986 at M. Nasir Trading Corporation in Gadani Beach | |
| Polar Uruguay | Blohm + Voss / 857 | 6808844 | January 27, 1968 July 15, 1968 |
Aegean Bay → Frio Bay (1986) → Frio Bahia (1988) → Lola (1992) → Aborted December 17, 1993 in Alang | |
| Polar Paraguay | Blohm + Voss / 858 | 6810885 | February 24, 1968 December 23, 1968 |
Frio Mexico , On December 10, 1990, when Chios Faith caught fire near West Hinder and canceled in Turkey in 1991 | |
literature
- Refrigerated ship "Polar Ecuador" . In: Ship and Harbor . Vol. 19, No. 7 , July 1967, p. 497 .
- Blohm + Voss, Zoepffel, D .; Stieglitz, J .; Todt, H .; Beigel, O .; Falensky, Georg ;: MS "Polar Ecuador" . In: Ship and Harbor . Vol. 19, No. November 11 , 1967, pp. 769-802 .
- Arnold Kludas ; Witthohn, Ralf: The German reefer ships . 1st edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1981, ISBN 3-7822-0248-1 .
- Prager, Hans Georg: Blohm + Voss . Ships and machines for the world. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1977, ISBN 3-7822-0127-2 .
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ IMO 6417712
- ↑ Ulrich Höhns, editor: Hartmut Frank u. Ullrich Schwarz, Between Avantgarde and Salon Cäsar Pinnau 1906 - 1988: Architecture from Hamburg for the mighty of the world, Dölling und Galitz Verlag, 2015, page 202, (catalog raisonné 214)
- ↑ Two reefer ships for the Hamburg-Süd shipping company ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. hsdg-sammlung.de, accessed on July 28, 2015
