Shipping company Gebr. Ulmann

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The shipping company Gebr. Ulmann was a shipping company in Hamburg . The company began shipping in 1948, initially in the Rhine maritime sector and later in the maritime sector. In 1955 the shipping company was stopped.

history

The freight forwarding company Gebrüder Ulmann was founded in 1891 and was also involved in handling and shipping. In 1948 the coaster Sülfmeister , built in 1929, was taken over. In 1950 the Ulmann brothers ordered six small motorized freighters from HC Stülcken Sohn for Rhine- Sea shipping. The ships went from Basel to southern Sweden. Since it was not possible to travel at night on the Upper Rhine, the journeys were too long at around 14 days. Therefore, the Rhine trip never came into the profit zone, was discontinued and these ships were sold until 1956.

The shipping company started with pure sea shipping in Hamburg and ordered the first seagoing vessels from HC Stülcken Sohn. The motor cargo ships St. Michael and St. Katherina were launched in 1950 and 1951, but were not put into service until 1952. Due to difficulties in the delivery of the main engines, the delivery had been delayed considerably, as a result of which the shipyard and shipping company suffered high losses. The ships were used in the Union-Africa line and served West African ports.

Both the losses in the Rhine maritime shipping and the delayed delivery of the ocean-going ships brought the shipping company into difficulties and the two ocean-going ships were sold to Fisser and van Doornum .

fleet

The inland motor ship Sülfmeister (89 BRT / 110 tdw ) built in 1929 by Gebr. Van Diepen, Waterhuizen, was registered in 1948 for the OHG Gebrüder Ulmann in Hamburg. It was converted into a coaster by DW Kremer Sohn and demolished in 1970.

In 1950 the Rhein-Seeschiff Ulmbrueder 3 was taken over by HC Stülcken Sohn (249 BRT / 336 tdw) and until 1956 it was mainly operated in the Rhine maritime sector. It was sold in 1956, renamed Cormoran II and partially demolished in 1972, using the hull to build the Brandenburg Gate inland waterway . The identically constructed Ulmbrueder 4 and Ulmbrueder 5 followed in 1950 . The Ulmbrueder 6 created in 1951 and the Ulmbrueder 7 and Ulmbrueder 8 delivered in 1952 were somewhat larger with 337 GRT and 432 tdw. All six ships were built by HC Stülcken Sohn.

In 1952 the motor ship St. Michael (2050 BRT / 3840 tdw) followed, which was powered by two eight-cylinder two-stroke engines from WUMAG GmbH, Geesthacht, with a total of 2,680 hp. The launch was on December 20, 1950 and the delivery was due to late engine delivery on May 21, 1952. In 1958 the ship was sold to Fisser and van Doornum in Hamburg. After several changes of ownership, it was declared a total loss as Anna M. in 1977 because it caught fire with a load of cement and was set on the ground.

On August 7, 1952, the sister ship St. Katharina was delivered to the shipping company with the same dates and problems with the engine delivery. In 1955 the ship went to Fisser and van Doornum as correspondent owner . As Glory it was canceled in La Spezia in 1979 after multiple changes of ownership .

gallery

  • Ulmbrueder 3

  • Ulmbrueder 4

  • Ulmbrueder 5

  • Ulmbrueder 7

Literature and Sources

  • Shipping company Gebr. Ulmann. In: Deutsche Reedereien Volume 4 , 1996 Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen p. 177.