Rüdesheimer (ship, 1889)
 The Hansa ex Ruedesheimer
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The Rüdesheimer of the German Steamship Company "Hansa" (DDG "Hansa"), which was put into service in 1889, was a cargo ship for their "Asiatische Linie AG", Bremen. For this line, the shipping company procured five similar ships from the Sunderland Shipbuilding yard . The Joh. C. Tecklenborg shipyard delivered a similar ship with the Johannisberger . In 1894, Dixon delivered another ship with a similar name, the Steinberger .
The ships were referred to as the wine type class and their naming differed considerably from the other DDG Hansa ships, which had the same name endings with -fels , -eck , -stein and -burg depending on the intended shipping area.
History of the ship
In September 1888, DDG Hansa ordered five ships from Sunderland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in Sunderland . The shipping company bought its second ship from this shipyard in 1882, the first Drachenfels in 1882, and ordered two more ships, the Trifels and Gutenfels, in 1887 . With the Rheinfels (2717 BRT), the new order comprised another Trifels class ship and four somewhat larger ships for the new Asian route operated by DDG “Hansa”.
Like the previously delivered Trifels class, the ships had a clipper bow and were 96 m long and 12.5 m wide. Driven by a triple expansion engine of 1400 hp and they could run 11 knots . For emergencies they were rigged as a brigantine, which was removed in the course of their service. On their two masts the ships had six loading booms with a load capacity of 2 tons.
Launched in September 1889 as the second ship of the class, the Rüdesheimer was delivered to the Bremen shipping company on October 16, 1889.
On this day the Marcobrunner , the first ship in the series, ran aground on her maiden voyage in the Red Sea and was lost. By the end of the year, the Sunderland shipyard had also delivered the other two ships on the order, Rauenthaler and Hochheimer , and on January 16, 1890, the Johannisberger , delivered by Tecklenborg , with 2931 GRT, was the largest ship of the shipping company up to that point. In the second half of 1890, the Scharlachberger made in Sunderland followed as a replacement. The separately operated "Asian Line" was abandoned at the end of 1894 and the ships were transferred to the parent company on January 1, 1895.
The ships remained in the service of the DDG "Hansa" until the turn of the century, although the use of more modern ships was also carried out on other lines. From 1902 to 1905 the ships originally built for the "Asian Line" were sold.
The further fate of the Rüdesheimer
In March 1905 the Rüdesheimer , like the sister ships Rauenthaler and Scharlachberger in December 1904 , was initially sold to H. Diederichsen , Kiel, but was not accepted due to late delivery. The Kiel shipping company then took over Johannisberger in May .
On March 30, 1905, the Rüdesheimer then went to the steamship company "Argo" in Bremen and was renamed Hansa on April 6, 1905 . On August 14, 1905, the ship was resold to North German Lloyd . It was used in the Bremen-Philadelphia-Savannah service, where with the America ex Stolzenfels another ex-DDG "Hansa" ship was used. On November 20, 1908, the NDL gave Hansa back to DG "Argo".
On May 20, 1913, she sold the ship to the Stettiner shipping company “Wm. Eisenach ”, who renamed it Paula Peters .
On May 3, 1915, the Port of Chile Company in Bremen bought the old ship and renamed it Hera .
Operated by the "Globus" shipping company, a subsidiary of the Roland Line , the Hera was used as an ore transporter on the Baltic Sea. On May 17, 1916, the Russian submarine Wolk (Russian ВОЛК / Ger. Wolf ) sank the Hera off Norrköping with a torpedo.
Fate of the sister ships
| Surname | Shipyard | GRT tdw |
Launched in service |
further fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marcobrunner | Sunderland Shbdg, building no. 156 |
2861 4200 |
1889 09/09/1889 |
aground on the maiden voyage on October 16, 1889 in the Red Sea, evacuated on the 18th with the support of the British gunboat HMS Plover , burned on October 19th, 1889 after being looted by beach robbers |
| Rudesheimer | Sunderland construction no. 157 |
2848 4200 |
09.1889 16.10.1889 |
April 1905 renamed Hansa at DG Argo and NDL, 1913 Paula Peters , 1915 Hera , torpedoed and sunk by a Russian submarine on May 17, 1916 |
| Rauenthaler | Sunderland construction no. 158 |
2870 4200 |
10.1889 November 19, 1889 |
December 1904 sold to Kiel: Tsimo , March 1906 to Chile: Chiloé , 1913 to Italy: Salvatore , 1926 demolished |
| Hochheimer | Sunderland construction no. 159 |
2869 4200 |
11.1889 12/24/1889 |
March 1905 Sale to Japan: Buyo Maru , 1919 to France: General Daugan , 1923 demolished |
| Johannisberger |
Tecklenborg building no. 94 |
2981 4200 |
30.10.1889 16.01.1890 |
May 1905 sale to Kiel: Syfang , Matilda Körner , 1910 sale to Japan: Tamon Maru N ° 8 , 1933 demolition |
| Scarlet Berger | Sunderland construction no. 164 |
2864 4200 |
07.1890 23.08.1890 |
December 1904 Sale to Kiel: Wyk , August 19, 1907 destroyed by fire off Japan |
Similarly named ships
In December 1894, the lead ship of a new class of Asian freighters was launched as a Steinberger at Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. in Middlesbrough, but in 1895 it came into service directly with DDG "Hansa". The two sister ships Ockenfels and Goldenfels were then given the usual Hansa names.
In 1940/41, names of the “types of wine” class were used for five ships confiscated by the Germans, which were handed over to DDG “Hansa” for ship management.
The British cargo ship Springfjord (2036 GRT, 3400 tdw, 12 kn) under construction in Norway was put into service as Rüdesheimer in September 1940 for the "Reichskommissar für die Seeschiffahrt" and handed over to DDG "Hansa" for management. The ship was used as a military transport along the Norwegian coast and was taken over by the British in 1945. On June 27, 1954, during the turmoil of the civil war, the ship was sunk by an air raid in San José (Guatemala) .
Individual evidence
- ^ The stranding of the Marcobrunners
- ↑ Kludas: Die Seeschiffe des NDL 1857-1919, p. 112
- ↑ The sinking of the Hera
literature
- Carl Herbert: War voyages of German merchant ships . Broschek & Co, Hamburg 1934.
- Arnold Kludas : The ships of the North German Lloyd 1857 to 1919 . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 1991, ISBN 3-7822-0524-3 .
- Hans Georg Prager: DDG Hansa - From liner service to special shipping , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford (1976), ISBN 3-7822-0105-1
- Reinhold Thiel: The history of the DDG Hansa. Volume 1: 1881-1918. HM Hauschild, Bremen, 2010, ISBN 3-8975-7477-2