Rendsburg (ship type)
 Stephan Reith, built in Kiel in 1975
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The type Rendsburg is a series cargo ship type of the shipyard & machine factory Paul Lindenau in Kiel and the Nobiskrug shipyard in Rendsburg . Between 1969 and 1975, 21 of these Liberty replacement ships were built .
history
In the mid-1960s, about 700 of the 3300 Liberty and Victory standard freighters produced, as well as several other cargo ships built during the Second World War, were still in service in the world merchant fleet in the mid-1960s. Even the youngest of them were now 20 years and older, and so both the shipping companies and the shipyards were faced with the question of replacing these ships, which would have reached the end of their service life in the foreseeable future.
The great upheavals in maritime shipping, caused by the appearance of container ships and bulk carriers , which would later almost completely replace the general cargo ships , were not foreseeable as such at this point in time, so that the classic general cargo ship, which was in its form at the time since the turn of the century, was relatively few changes was built, still appeared up to date.
At the end of the 1960s, the Lindenau shipyard also designed a ship to replace the then aging fleet of Liberty freighters and Victory ships. In order to be able to offer larger series as well, it entered into a cooperation with the Nobiskrug shipyard.
The series was manufactured from 1969 to the mid-1970s in 21 units, seven at Lindenau and fourteen at Nobiskrug. The ships are mainly used in global tramping, but liner shipping companies have also ordered numerous copies. The best-known are probably the six identical ships of the Cap-Sunion series for the shipping companies Sartori & Berger and Hamburg-Süd . Depending on the version, the individual ships are tailored to the particular application in terms of length, engines with 4000 or 5500 hp, equipment with various combinations of loading and heavy lift gear , cranes and other special features.
Most of the freighters had long operating times in the first hand and some of them remained under German management until the end of the 1990s. It was not until August 21, 1998 that the last ship was sold abroad, Hapag-Lloyd Amazonas . The second-hand ships were mostly in service for a long time, so the former Cap Sunion only arrived in Aliaga on May 25, 2011 for demolition.
literature
- Last “Rendsburg” freighter sold abroad in: Kehrwieder 11/98, Vol. 42/96, No. 11, Association of German Shipowners, Hamburg, p. 9/10, ISSN 0948-9002
- Detlefsen, Gert Uwe; Abert, Hans Jürgen: The history and fate of German series freighters . Volume 1 - The development, German series after 1945 The fate of the Hansa-A-Freighter. Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen, Bad Zwischenahn 1998, ISBN 3-928473-41-7 .
- Detlefsen, Gert Uwe; Abert, Hans Jürgen: The history and fate of German series freighters . Volume 2 - The fates and résumés of the Hansa B and C freighters, the German multi-purpose freighters, type '36 / 36 L ', Trampko, type' Rendsburg ', BV 16/1800, RW 39/49 and Eco-Box. Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen, Bad Zwischenahn 1998, ISBN 3-928473-42-5 .