Prinzregent (ship)
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Prince Regent Cordoba 
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Prince Regent , painted by Willy Stöwer
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| Purpose: | Hamburg-around-Africa line | |
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German East-Africa Line , Hamburg |
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| Launch : | January 10, 1903 | |
| Commissioning: | April 6, 1903 | |
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Blohm & Voss , Hamburg, building no. 164 |
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| Passengers: | 395 | |
| Crew: | ~ 130 men | |
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| Measurement : | 6,341 GRT | |
| Load capacity : | 6,138 dwt | |
| Length over all : | 126.49 m | |
| Width: | 15.24 m | |
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| Machinery: | 2 triple expansion steam engines | |
| Number of screws : | 2 | |
| Power: | 4,000 PSi | |
| Top speed: | 13.0 kn | |
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The Reichspostdampfer Prinzregent was one of 20 ships that the German East Africa Line ( DOAL ) used between 1890 and 1914 as part of the contract concluded in May 1890 with the German Reich on the establishment and operation of a regular German mail steamer connection with East Africa let build.
history
The Prinzregent , 6341 BRT, built by Blohm & Voss , was a cargo and passenger ship. The ship was almost identical to the field marshal . The Prinzregent was launched on January 10, 1903 and entered service on April 6, 1903. Like her sister ship Feldmarschall , the ship remained in the “Around Africa” service until the beginning of the First World War in early August 1914. In August 1914, the Prince Regent called Tenerife , where it remained for the war.
On June 9, 1919, it was delivered to France and from September 1920 as Cordoba by the Société Générale de Transports Maritimes (SGTM) from Marseille to South America from Genoa via Marseille and then Almería , Las Palmas de Gran Canaria or Dakar , Rio de Janeiro , Santos or Montevideo deployed to Buenos Aires . In 1932 it was canceled.
literature
- Arnold Kludas : The ships of the German Africa Lines 1880-1945. Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1975.
- Arnold Kludas: The History of German Passenger Shipping. Volume 3: Rapid growth 1900 to 1914. Ernst Kabel, Hamburg 1988, plan p. 28/29 ( writings of the German Maritime Museum 20).
- Hans Georg Prager: Blohm + Voss - Ships and Machines for the World , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1977
- Christine Reinke-Kunze: History of the Reichs-Post-Steamers. Connection between the continents 1886–1914. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1994.