A. Hansen shipping company
The A. Hansen shipping company was established in Flensburg in 1905 due to the division of the Schmidt & Hansen shipping company into two shipping companies. The A. Hansen shipping company was closed in 1958.
history
Adolph Hansen completed his apprenticeship at the shipping company Holm & Molzen and was hired by shipowner Heinrich Schmidt to take over the freighting, which he had previously taken care of himself. In 1895 he became a co-owner and the company name was changed to Schmidt & Hansen. 1898 ships managed already nine ships totaling 15,600 GRT , predominantly Part shipping companies belonged. In 1904 they founded a new shipping company, Flensburger Schiffsparten AG . After Schmidt's son Heinrich Wilhelm joined the company, tensions arose which led to the Schmidt & Hansen shipping company being amicably split up in 1905. Consul Adolph Hansen took over the correspondence of the steamers Ceres (1), Mars , Juno (1) and Iris' (1).
In 1958 Adolph Hansen closed the shipping company because there was no successor.
Ships
The cargo steamer Mars (1) with 2560 GRT and 3950 tdw was delivered to Hansen as construction no. 64 in December 1905 by Eiderwerft AG ( Tönning ). It was the only new building after the division of the shipping company. It had to be extradited to Great Britain after the First World War in 1919, then went to the Belgian government and in September as Cagliari to the German Empire. During World War II it sank after a bomb hit in 1944, was lifted in 1946 and demolished in Rijeka.
Most ships were lost in the First World War - the Vesta and Iris remained . The cargo steamer Mars (2) was significantly smaller at 989 GRT and came to Hansen in 1922 from the Stettiner Oderwerke . It was sold to Sweden in 1928, ran onto a reef off Greece as Ellimina in 1960 and sank.
The freight steamer Juno (2) with 2040 GRT was delivered in 1903 by the Rostock Neptun shipyard as Elisabeth to Schuldt and taken over by Hansen in 1924. It sank in 1945 in Wilhelmshaven in an air raid. The following ships were also not newbuildings for the Hansen shipping company.
The cargo steamer Mimi Horn , built in 1922 by the Lübeck Henry Koch Werft (for HC Horn), came to Hansen in 1926, was renamed Ceres (2) and sold again in 1932.
From the Neptun shipyard in 1909 to Rob. M. Sloman Jr. The delivered cargo steamer Lisbon was sold to Hansen as Thetis in 1929 and sank in 1945 when a bomb hit. The steamer was lifted, ran after several changes of ownership under the name Ourana near Elba on a reef and was then abandoned as a wreck in 1962.
The 3300 GRT cargo steamer Adour , built in Sweden by Öresundvarvet for the Swedish bill, was taken over by Hansen in 1939. It was lost in 1945 after a bomb hit off Aalesund .
The only motor ship with the name Schwansen was delivered in 1941 with 560 GRT from the Bremerhaven Rickmerswerft as a coal ship for the Navy . Originally planned for delivery to the USSR, it came to Hansen in 1953, was sold again in 1958 and converted into a chemical tanker. In August 1974 she was canceled as Laura Wofsi in Brindisi
swell
- 100 years of shipping, shipbuilding, ports; 1964 Hamburg, shipping company Hansa
- Detlefsen, Gert Uwe: German shipping companies, Volume 10: 1999 Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen