Prince Joachim
.jpg) The Prince Joachim after the seizure in 1917
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The Prinz Joachim , named after Joachim von Prussia , was completed in 1903 and was built by the Flensburger Schiffsbau-Gesellschaft as the 7th and last Prince Ship for the South America services of the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG), Hamburg .
This shipyard delivered two steamers that resembled the three single chimneys built at the Reiherstieg shipyard and AG Neptun, Prinz Eitel Friedrich , Prinz Waldemar and Prinz Sigismund .
In addition, the company had the larger twin-screw steamers Prinz Adalbert and Prinz Oskar built for the South America services.
In 1914, by renaming two steamers to be taken over by HSDG, HAPAG was to receive two more “princes” that were to be used in East Asia.
Use at HAPAG
The Prinz Joachim began her maiden voyage from Hamburg via Le Havre and La Coruña to Havana and Vera Cruz in October 1903 . Together with her sister ship Prinz August Wilhelm , she operated Hapag's two-month direct service to Mexico, which opened in April 1903 .
In Hapag's Atlas service from New York
In 1901, HAPAG bought the British Atlas Line from Liverpool, which connected HAPAG's two oldest destinations, New York and the West Indies. The "Atlas Service" had a weekly line from New York to Jamaica, Colombia, Costa Rica and Port au Prince (Haiti), as well as branch lines to Haitian ports and Central America. 1905/1906 developed, also because of the start of construction of the Panama Canal , increased competition with other lines. HAPAG has significantly strengthened its West India service and has now deployed the 8,000 GRT twin screw steamers Fürst Bismarck and Crown Princess Cecilie from Hamburg to Mexico .
Prince August Wilhelm (first deployment on February 10, 1906) and Prince Joachim (from April) were freed up to increase passenger traffic in the Atlas service, along with the three chimneys previously used in the Brazilian service, Prince Eitel Friedrich , Prince Waldemar and Prince Sigismund followed.
In 1913, the Prinz Joachim and her sister ship Prinz August Wilhelm served the D line of the Atlas service, which ran bi-weekly from New York via Inagua , monthly Saint-Marc , Port-au-Prince , monthly Petit Goave , Miragoâne , Jérémie , Aux Cayes or Jacmel , Cartagena ran to Puerto Colombia and returned to New York via Kingston and Inagua.
At the beginning of the war, the Prinz Joachim was in New York and was launched.
Sister ship Prinz August Wilhelm
The almost identical Prinz August Wilhelm (4,733 GRT) ran on November 4, 1902 at the Flensburger Schiffsbau-Gesellschaft as construction no. 217 was launched and was delivered to HAPAG on May 16, 1903. On May 26, she left for her maiden voyage to Mexico. On February 10, 1906, she drove for the first time in the Atlas service from New York to Costa Rica.
On August 1, 1914, the Prinz August Wilhelm was in Santa Marta and later moved to Puerto Colombia, where it was launched for the duration of the war. On April 26, 1918, the ship was sunk by its own crew.
American service of Prince Joachim
In April 1917, the US government confiscated the Prinz Joachim and put it into operation as a transporter under the name Moccasin .
On February 26, 1918, the US Navy took this freighter with passenger facilities and cold rooms into service. From March 14th to April 13th, she made her first trip to Europe from New York City to Bordeaux, France in a convoy with a load of frozen meat. On June 2, 1919, the ship was decommissioned.
In 1920 it was renamed Porto Rico . On March 2, 1920, she sank in New York. Raised and repaired again, she came into service with the New York & Porto Rico Steamship Co. in 1923. In December 1933, the former Prince Joachim was sold for demolition.
literature
- Noel RP Bonsor: North Atlantic Seaway. vol. 2, Newton Abbey & Jersey, 1976.
- Arnold Kludas : The history of German passenger shipping from 1850 to 1990. Weltbild, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-89350-821-X .
- Claus Rothe: German ocean passenger ships 1896 to 1918. Moers 1986, ISBN 3-921564-80-8 .
Web links
- USS Moccasin (ID # 1322) 1918-1919
- Moccasin ( Memento from September 28, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) as USS Moccasin (ID # 1322)
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Moccasin (ID 1322)
Footnotes
- ↑ colored postcard
- ↑ Picture from Le Havre
- ↑ a b c d e f Kludas, Volume II, p. 124.
- ↑ Article with an old postcard
- ↑ Picture of the Porto Rico
