Karl Gross shipping company
The shipping company Karl Gross was a German shipping company based in Brake .
history
On May 15, 1876, Karl Gross founded a company under his name in Brake / Unterweser that initially focused on the timber trade. A few years after the establishment, the focus of the company's activities shifted to forwarding, ship brokerage and shipping company.
Karl Dietrich Adolf Gross graduated from the junior sailor and ship boy school in Brake and served as a junior sailor in the German fleet. His sister Caroline married the first German admiral, Karl Rudolf Brommy , who was in the service of the Greek navy for many years. The symbols of the office flag go back to this connection.
The first ship, the Franz Ohlrogge , built in 1917, entered service in 1937. The steamer Adele Ohlrogge , built in 1894, followed in 1938, followed by the Erich Ohlrogge, built in 1908, in 1940 . The Franz Ohlrogge was the only ship to survive the Second World War . It was scrapped in Bremerhaven in February 1955.
After the end of the war, the shipping company bought the steamer Erich in 1950 , formerly Akka from the Atlas Levante Line Bremen and in 1950 the steamer Adele , formerly Lafian from African & Eastern Trading Ltd.
From 1952 several cargo ships were added:
- 1952 Else - Nordseewerke Emden (IMO 5337068)
- 1954 Walter - Rickmers shipyard Bremerhaven (IMO 5385613)
- 1955 Gertrud - Nordseewerke Emden (IMO 5138864)
- 1955 Regine - launched in 1941 as the freight steamer Atlas at Nordseewerke Emden, completed in 1948 by Howaldtswerke Kiel (IMO 5292232)
- 1956 Franz Ohlrogge (II) - Rickmers-Werft Bremerhaven (IMO 5133981)
- 1957 Adele Ohlrogge (II) - built in 1937 by the Bremer Vulkan as Hermion (IMO 5002510)
- 1957 Erika - AG Weser - Seebeck-Werft (IMO 5105453)
In 1964, the shipping company Karl Gross sold the Walter and the Erika to the Atlas Levante Line (ALL) in Bremen and gave up its stake in the ALL. This went hand in hand with the sale of a large part of their own fleet. Until 1973 the shipping company Karl Gross operated the freighter Regine in the Hamburg-Süd charter. After an engine failure, the ship initially remained as a semitrailer in Bremerhaven and arrived in Santander on May 11, 1976 for demolition .
After that, the Karl Gross company gave up shipping operations entirely and only dealt with forwarding, storage and other business areas.
gallery
The first Adele Ohlrogge ran into a sea mine on February 27, 1941
Adele Ohlrogge (II) acquired in 1957
The Regine , which was broken off in 1976, was the shipping company's last ship
literature
- Gerd Uwe Detlefsen: German shipping companies. Volume 13. Verlag Gerd Uwe Detlefsen, Bad Segeberg 2000, ISBN 3-928473-59-X .
Web links
- Image of a full ship of the shipping company Karl Gross on the side of the shipping museum of the Oldenburg Weser ports in Brake ( Memento from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Shipping company Karl Gross 75 years . ( Memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hamburger Abendblatt , May 15, 1951
- ↑ Miramar Ship Index, IMO 5604237 , accessed January 24, 2020
- ↑ Change of flag in front of Borkum . In: Die Zeit , No. 26/1952
- ↑ Miramar Ship Index, IMO 5292232 , accessed January 24, 2020