Prince Friedrich Wilhelm
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| Launch : | October 22, 1907 | |
| Commissioning: | May 30, 1908 | |
| Builder: |
Joh. C. Tecklenborg , Geestemünde, building no. 211 |
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| similar: |
Berlin AG Weser , Bremen, building no. 164 |
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| Passengers: | 364 1st class, 376 2nd class to 1726 between deck |
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| Crew: | 400 men | |
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| Measurement: | 17,082 GRT | |
| Load capacity: | 11,350 dw | |
| Length over all: | 186.67 m | |
| Width: | 20.82 m | |
| Draft : | ... m | |
| Machinery: | 2 quadruple expansion steam engines | |
| Number of screws: | 2 | |
| Power: | 14,500 PSi | |
| Top speed: | 19 kn | |
| Whereabouts | ||
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1930 demolished |
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The Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm was a passenger ship of the North German Lloyd (NDL) in the North Atlantic service from 1908 to 1914.
After the war she was briefly in the service of the United States Navy to transport American troops from France back to the States. Then she was first chartered to the Canadian Pacific Steamships (CP) and then sold. There it was given five new names (Empress of China, Empress of India, Montlaurier, Monteith and Montnairn). It was canceled as early as 1929.
In the service of the NDL
When the keel of the ship was stretched, it was to be baptized Washington . The Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm was launched on October 21, 1907. The Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm , built for the North Atlantic service at Joh. C. Tecklenborg , had two chimneys, two masts and a service speed of 17 knots. She was the largest ship built for the NDL at this shipyard. On June 6, 1908, she left Bremerhaven on her maiden voyage via Southampton and Cherbourg to New York . On June 13, 1914, she began her last North Atlantic voyage. At the start of the war in August 1914, she had been on her first polar cruise in the North Sea since July 18 and sought out Odda in Norway as a haven of refuge. In December 1916 she was transferred to Kiel, where she arrived on December 18th on Christmas Eve after having touched the island off the island of Samsø . After the war she had to be extradited to Great Britain on March 31, 1919.
For a short time the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm was taken over by the United States Navy as a troop transport as USS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm (ID-4063) . From April to August 1919 she made five tours from France to the USA and transported over 15,000 passengers, mostly US Army personnel. In November 1919 she was decommissioned and made available to the US Shipping Board.
In Canadian service
In 1920 the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm was chartered by the Canadian Pacific (CP) and sailed between Liverpool and Québec from July 14th . Canadian Pacific bought the ship on May 13, 1921. She was overhauled in Glasgow and has now been measured at 17,282 GRT.
Empress of China
On August 2, 1921, it was given the name Empress of China , but it did not go by that name. She was the company's second Empress of China .
Empress of India
Therefore, the former Prince Friedrich Wilhelm was renamed Empress of India after just a few weeks . With this name, too, she was the second bearer of the Canadian Pacific name. As a ship of the Canadian Pacific Fleet, she was a Royal Mail Ship and had the designation RMS before her name. On August 25, 1921, the Cunard Line chartered the Empress of India . She made two tours between Southampton and New York. She started her first of only two Liverpool-Quebec trips for the Canadian Pacific on June 23, 1922. On August 21, 1922, she began her only Southampton-Cherbourg-Quebec trip.
Montlaurier
Then the ship was renamed again in Montlaurier and converted into a ship with only two classes: cabin class and III. Class. On May 4, 1923, she began her service between Liverpool and Quebec. However, due to a boiler damage, she had to turn around and after repairs could not continue the journey until June 29th. On January 24, 1925, she ran for the last time from Liverpool to Saint John . On the way back she had serious problems with the controls near Fastnet Rock off the south coast of Ireland. The mistakes made it necessary to start from Queenstown (today Cobh) and to drag in to Liverpool. When it was still at Cammell, Laird & Company for repairs , it was damaged by fire on April 14, 1925.
Monteith
On June 5, 1925, the name was next changed to Monteith, but it never went under that name.
Montnairn
As early as July 2, 1925, the name was next changed to Montnairn . Now it was used again between Liverpool and Quebec. In July 1926, the passenger facility was again organized into three classes: cabin-class, tourist-class, 3rd-class accommodations. From May 4, 1927, there were also departures from Antwerp via Southampton to Quebec. Her last journey began on September 16, 1928 in Hamburg to Southampton, Cherbourg and Quebec.
Then the ship was laid up in Southampton, which had carried out 62 round trips across the North Atlantic for the CP. On December 23, 1929, the Montnairn was sold to Genoa for demolition.
literature
- Carl Herbert: War voyages of German merchant ships . Broschek & Co, Hamburg 1934.
- 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 . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 1991, ISBN 3-7822-0524-3 .
- Claus Rothe: German ocean passenger ships 1896 to 1918 . Steiger Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-921564-80-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article and picture
- ↑ US Naval Historical Center: Description of the USS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm ( Memento from September 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ship List: Description of Prince Frederick Wilhelm
- ^ Norwegian Heritage: Empress of India
- ↑ US Naval Historical Center: US Navy troop transport ship ( Memento from March 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The first Empress of China (5,905 GRT) was built in 1891 for the Trans-Pacific route of the CP and had an accident in Tokyo in 1911. The third Empress of China was built in 1919 for HAPAG as Tirpitz (21,860 GRT) and was also bought by CP in 1921; it was named Empress of Australia in 1922
- ↑ The first Empress of India (5905 GRT) was built in 1891 for the Trans-Pacific route and sold in 1915