Remscheid class
| Remscheid class | ||
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 The Rio Salado built as Gera |
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| Launch : | ?. August 1914 - June 8, 1917 | |
| Commissioning: | April 1915 - August 19, 1919 | |
| Builders: |
Howaldt shipyard , Kiel, building no. 585/586 Flensburger Schiffsbau Gesellschaft , building no. 343 Bremer Vulkan , Vegesack, building no. 582-584 |
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| Sister ships: |
Remscheid , Heilbronn . Augsburg . Gera (II), Erfurt , Nienburg , Porta |
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| Passengers: | some 6 1st class | |
| Crew: | 54 men | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Measurement: | 7848-8112 GRT | |
| Load capacity: | 11,200 to 12,065 dwt | |
| Length over all: | 144.55-144.15 m | |
| Width: | 18.48 / 18.55 m | |
| Draft : | 7.9 m | |
| Machinery: | Triple expansion steam engine | |
| Number of screws: | 1 | |
| Power: | 4,400 PSi | |
| Top speed: | 12.5 kn | |
| Whereabouts | ||
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1932–1959 loss / demolition |
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The Remscheid class was a series of twelve freighters that North German Lloyd commissioned for a new freight service to East Asia, seven of which were completed between 1915 and 1919.
Two were completed by Howaldtswerke in Kiel in 1915, another in 1916 by the Flensburger Schiffsbau Gesellschaft . The remaining four ships were completed by the Bremer Vulkan , Vegesack, after the end of the war. With a size of 7848-8112 GRT, a carrying capacity of 11,200-12,065 dwt, the ships equipped with a triple expansion steam engine of 4400 hp were 12.5 knots fast. They were 144.55 to 144.86 m long and 18.48 / 18.55 m wide and had a crew of 54 men and the ships from the Bremer Vulkan had cabin equipment for 6 first class passengers.
The development of the type was determined by the attitude of Lloyd that HAPAG would participate in the post-steamship traffic to East Asia, which was no longer subsidized from 1914, and that it would then have to compete with it on the freight line.
The Remscheid class freighters were similar to the previous Australian freighters of the Rhineland class . In contrast to these two-masters with a large number of cargo booms with air scoops, the ships of the Remscheid- class had four masts and the aforementioned cargo boom pairs only on the forecastle.
Use after delivery
None of the seven ships was used during the First World War.
The Remscheid (construction no. 585), completed by Howaldt in April 1915, was delivered to France on March 27, 1919 and came into service as Yang Tse for Messageries Maritimes . In 1930 the ship received an exhaust steam turbine from the Bauer Wach system . The four steam boilers were converted from coal to heating oil in 1933. In August 1940 she was confiscated by the Germans in Bordeaux , became a transporter for the Kriegsmarine and was managed by DDG Hansa as Markobrunner . In 1945 it returned to the French owners. Sold in 1957, it was renamed Saintes and was scrapped in Japan in 1959 after briefly serving as Kinokuni Maru .
The sister ship Heilbronn (construction no. 586), which was completed around the same time, came under the British flag at the same time in 1919. In 1920 it became the Eastminster Abbey of the David Steamship and in 1921 the Aierterkerk of the Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaartmaatschappij (VNS). Renamed Oostkerk in 1923 , the ship was scrapped in Japan in 1932.
The Gera (II), completed by Bremer Vulkan in 1919 and delivered on April 4, 1919, and the Nienburg (building no. 582 and 584) delivered on August 12, had similar lives .
The Gera (II) sailed with David Steamship as Oraino and then in 1921 under the Dutch flag as Ouderkerk . In 1934, actually sold to Italy for demolition, it was back on the road as Gianfranco . Laid up in Buenos Aires in July 1940 , it was confiscated in August 1941 and is now sailing under the Argentine flag as the Rio Salado and was not actually broken up until 1954.
The Nienburg became Tamora and then Meerkerk in 1921 . From May 1940 she ran under the British flag, in October 1945 again under the Dutch flag. On June 16, 1946, on the way to Australia, she ran into a mine near Westkapelle and broke up.
The delivered on 5 April 1919 sistership Erfurt (building no. 583) went after a short British ship management in 1921 as Mercier at the Lloyd Royale Belge (1931 Cie Maritime Belge). On June 9, 1941, she was sunk by a German submarine on the way to Montreal shortly before Newfoundland.
The Augsburg (building no. 343), completed on February 5, 1916 by the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft , was delivered on March 28, 1919 and taken over by Hain Steamship as Tremere in 1920 . In 1925 it became Puriri after being sold ; Launched in Falmouth in July 1932 , it was sold to Japan for demolition in 1933.
Lippe ex Porta at the NDL
The most recently completed Porta was the only ship of the class that was used in peace under the German flag. Completed on August 19, 1919 from the Bremer Vulkan with construction number 585, it was delivered on September 5 and in 1921 went to Ellerman Lines as the City of Dunedin .
In December 1927, the NDL acquired the ship and used it as the Lippe to East Asia. In August 1939 the Lippe was on its way to East Asia and changed course due to the news to get back to Germany. On September 5, 1939, she entered Narvik . She then evaded further to Murmansk and reached Kiel on October 6th. Used in 1940 for the Weser Exercise to Narvik operation, she was sunk by British destroyers on April 13th. Lifted and repaired, the Lippe returned to service in 1941 and was sunk off Namsos by a British submarine on March 7, 1944 .
literature
- Arnold Kludas : The ships of the North German Lloyd 1857 to 1919 . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1991, ISBN 3-7822-0524-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Image of Yang Tse ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Picture of Yang Tse in the 50s ( memento of the original from October 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Picture of the Kinokuni Maru on the way to Japan ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ History and picture of the sinking Meerkerk
- ^ History and picture of the Mercier
- ↑ Model of the lip
