Prince Adalbert (ship, 1903)
 The sister ship Prince Oskar
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The Prinz Adalbert was built in 1902 by Bremer Vulkan for Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG), Hamburg, for South and Central America services. Usually she was used on the same line with the sister ship Prinz Oskar, which was built at the same shipyard .
In 1914, the Prince Adalbert came into British possession when she called Falmouth (Cornwall) on August 4, 1914, apparently ignorant of the political situation . Since February 1917 as Alesia under the French flag, she was sunk on September 6, 1917 by the German submarine UC 50 .
Use at Hapag
The Prinz Adalbert started on January 20, 1903 on her maiden voyage from Hamburg to Rio de Janeiro .
On April 8, 1903, Hapag opened a new bimonthly, direct service to Mexico, which ran in 21 days from Hamburg via Le Havre and La Coruña to Havana (13 days crossing the Atlantic) and Vera Cruz . For the first time only an intermediate port was called in the West Indies. The scheduled services were then taken over by the smaller “Prinzendampfer” built in Flensburg, Prince August Wilhelm , who came into service in May , and from October also Prince Joachim .
Prince Adalbert first sailed the Genoa - Naples - New York route on January 12, 1904 , where she was used together with her sister ship Prince Oskar and other ships. In the autumn of 1906, the two princes were transferred to a new line from Genoa to La Plata , but this had to be discontinued in November 1907 due to lack of success. Both ships were now back on the route from Hamburg to Mexico.
The increasing emigration to Canada aroused Hapag's business interests. After customs barriers had also been removed, she and the two princes opened a Hamburg- Quebec - Montreal service in 1909 , since a pure emigrant service would not have carried a line. On November 26, 1910, the Prinz Adalbert ran for the first time on the Hamburg- Philadelphia line , which both princes served together with the Rugia (6598 BRT, 1905, Rhenania class) until 1914.
The Prinz Adalbert was among the ships that tried to help the sinking RMS Titanic in 1912 . The picture was also taken on it, showing the iceberg with which the Titanic allegedly collided.
Fate of war
In 1914, the Prince Adalbert came into British possession, because on August 4, 1914, apparently ignorant of the political situation, she arrived in Falmouth (Cornwall) . Confiscated, it was used by the British Admiralty and renamed Princetown in 1916 . In February 1917 she was handed over to the French shipping company Sudatlantique Marseille and then went under the name Alesia .
On September 6, 1917, she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UC 50 near Ouessant .
Sister ship Prince Oskar
The almost identical Prinz Oskar (6,026 GRT) was launched on December 15, 1902 at Bremer Vulkan (BauNr. 451) , Vegesack, and was delivered to Hapag on June 14, 1903. she too made her maiden voyage to Brazil immediately. She then sailed on October 10, 1903 as the first of the sister ships from Genoa via Naples to New York (last time on June 29, 1906) . They provided service with the Phenicia and the Palatia and under a new agreement with the White Star Line .
On September 22, 1906, she opened the new service from Genoa to Buenos Aires . After its termination in 1907, both sister ships went into service in Mexico.
The Prinz Oskar also made the first trip to Canada on March 19, 1909 from Hamburg to Halifax and Saint John, NB , and then opened the new line with the first Hapag trip from Hamburg to Quebec and Montreal on May 14, 1909 (last time on May 27 , 1909) May 1910) . The Hamburg-Philadelphia service was also opened by Prince Oskar on September 13, 1910. On July 21, 1914, she started her last trip in the service of Hapag to Philadelphia, where she was launched on August 4 for the duration of the war.
On April 6, 1917, it was seized by the US government and launched as the "Orion". In 1922 it was awarded to the American Black Star Line , reissued in 1923 and canceled in Baltimore in 1929.
literature
- Noel RP Bonsor: North Atlantic Seaway. Volume 2. Newton Abbey & Jersey, 1976.
- Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping 1850 to 1990. Cable, 1986.
- Claus Rothe u. a .: German ocean passenger ships 1896 to 1918. Steiger, Moers 1986, ISBN 3-921564-80-8 .
Footnotes
- ↑ Article with picture
- ^ Image of Prince Adalbert
- ↑ Hapag-Lloyd has concerns with "boxes" for Mexico - Hamburger Abendblatt ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Image of Prince Adalbert
- ↑ PDF at www.titanicfiles.org
- ↑ Hapag-Lloyd has concerns with "boxes" for Mexico ( Memento from December 30, 2011 on WebCite )
- ↑ History of Sudatlantique
- ↑ Picture of Prince Oskar
- ↑ Pictures of both ships
