Prince Regent Luitpold (ship, 1894)
Prince Regent Luitpold 
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| Launch : | March 20, 1894 | |
| Delivery: | August 19, 1894 | |
| Builder: | F.Schichau , Danzig | |
| Sister ship: | Prince Heinrich (1894) | |
| Passengers: | 85 1st class, after reconstruction 163 80 2nd class, after reconstruction 42 1000 between deck 48 3rd class |
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| Crew: | 150 men | |
| Building-costs: | 3.214 million marks | |
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| Measurement: | 6,288 GRT 6,595 GRT after conversion in 1910 |
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| Load capacity: | 6400 dw | |
| Length over all: | 143.73 m | |
| Width: | 15.30 m | |
| Draft : | 9.1 m | |
| Machinery: | 2 triple expansion steam engines | |
| Number of screws: | 2 | |
| Power: | 5,600 PSi | |
| Top speed: | 15 kn | |
| Whereabouts | ||
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1928 |
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The Reichspostdampfer Prinzregent Luitpold was one of two twin-screw steamers that Norddeutsche Lloyd (NDL) had built for the first time in 1893 for the main lines of the Reichspostdampferdienst at F.Schichau in Danzig . The ship was named after the Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria . The single-chimney ships were specially prepared for the tropics and proved their worth.
Use for the NDL
The Prince Regent Luitpold carried out her maiden voyage from Bremerhaven to Sydney on August 29, 1894 and was the leading ship of the NDL on the imperial mail steamer line to Australia until 1896. Their last and 22nd mission began on May 11, 1910.
On May 1, 1897, she also made a trip to New York , followed by nine more departures by December 22, 1900. Between 1902 and May 26, 1904, the Prince Regent Luitpold traveled partly from Hamburg to East Asia.
After returning from Australia, the Prinzregent Luitpold was rebuilt in 1910 like her sister ship before. She also received an additional superstructure deck and was now on the Mediterranean / Levante service of the NDL, which was seldom continued in the Black Sea due to the various wars. In 1911 it operated the direct service between Marseille and Alexandria , but was also used on other lines ( Genoa - Bizerta - Alexandria, Marseille-Genoa - Alexandria), especially since all lines were subject to frequent changes due to the turbulent developments (Balkan wars, Italian-Turkish war).
War and post-war deployment
In August 1914, the Prince Regent Luitpold was launched in Messina . When Italy entered the war, the ship was confiscated on May 25, 1915 and used as a transporter. In 1918 it was renamed Pietro Calvi and demolished in 1928.
Sister ship Prince Heinrich
The Prince Heinrich , also built near Schichau, was delivered on December 15, 1894 and left for Shanghai on January 2, 1895 on her maiden voyage . On October 18, 1899, it started for the first time in Hamburg as part of the now joint East Asia service to Yokohama . On July 17, 1904, she was searched in Aden by the price command of the Russian auxiliary cruiser Smolensk , which confiscated the mail bags for Japan. Immediate diplomatic protests led to the return of the mail except for two parcels from a German ammunition factory. She made her only trip to Australia in March 1907, almost at the end of her time in the Reichspostdampferdienst.
In 1908 she was converted as the first of the two Prinzendampfer in order to be used in the future in the Mediterranean and Levante service ( Barcelona -Marseille-Genoa- Naples - Piraeus - Constantinople - Odessa - Batumi ) and there the old mail steamers of the Prussian class to replace. On December 16, 1908, the Prinz Heinrich started on her first voyage from Marseille to Alexandria. In 1911 it mainly served the Genoa - Naples and Catania - Alexandria lines.
When war broke out in 1914 it was in Lisbon and was launched there. On February 23, 1916, Portugal confiscated the ship and allowed it to sail in British service under the name Porto during the war . The ship was launched on November 27, 1922 and sold to Italy for demolition in 1925.
literature
- Arnold Kludas : The history of the German passenger shipping , Ernst Pagels, Hamburg 1986-1990
- Kludas, Arnold: The ships of the North German Lloyd 1857-1918 , Köhlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1991, ISBN 3-7822-0524-3
- Reinke-Kunze, Christine: The history of the Reichspostdampfer , Köhlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1994, ISBN 3-7822-0618-5
- Seiler, Otto J .: Australia trip , ES Mittler & Sohn, Herford 1988, ISBN 3-8132-0270-4