Rio de Janeiro (ship, 1914)
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The Rio de Janeiro was a German cargo ship . It was built as Santa Ines in 1914 and survived the First World War in Chile. In 1940 the ship, renamed Rio de Janeiro in 1921 , was sunk by an Allied submarine off Lillesand one day before the German raid on Norway began .
history
The ship was built at the Bremer Vulkan in Vegesack for the Hamburg-South American Steamship Company (HSDG) and launched on April 3, 1914 under the name Santa Ines . On May 16, 1914, the Santa Ines began her maiden voyage from Hamburg to La Plata . She was the lead ship of the last version of the Santa class, of which the HSDG received fourteen ships in various versions from 1901 until the outbreak of war in 1914 .
The length of the ship was 122.5 m, the width 16.8 m and the volume 5,199 GRT . With the Santa Isabel, also supplied by Bremer Vulkan, and the Santa Klara built by AG Weser , the Santa Ines had two sister ships. All three ships were in South America when the war broke out. The Santa Ines was launched after the start of the war in Valparaíso, Chile . The crew destroyed the machine in autumn 1918 when the ship was occupied by Chilean soldiers. After the end of the war, the ship was towed to Europe like many other German ships until September 16, 1920, where she suffered severe storm damage. The ship was repaired at the Hamburg shipyard by Blohm & Voss and it was handed over to the British Control Commission on October 14, 1921 , but remained in Hamburg. The Hamburg Süd shipping company managed to buy back its repaired freighter on November 15, 1921.
The ship, newly measured at 5261 GRT, was put back into service as Rio de Janeiro . On October 23, 1934, the ship caught fire in Victoria near Buenos Aires and had to be set aground. Despite severe damage, the Rio de Janeiro was lifted again and repaired. The ship on the return voyage from Argentina called at Vigo on August 30, 1939 and stayed there until December 12. She managed to pass the British blockade and she reached Narvik , where she took over ore and then reached Hamburg on January 19, 1940. On March 7, 1940, the German Navy commandeered the Rio de Janeiro as a transporter.
Sinking
The ship transported 330 soldiers as well as six FlaK 30 (2 cm), four FlaK 38 (10.5 cm) anti-aircraft guns, 73 horses, 71 vehicles and 292 tons of provisions, animal feed, fuel and ammunition as part of the 1st sea transport squadron of the Weser Exercise company . from Szczecin to the port of destination Bergen . The Polish submarine Orzeł, under British command, discovered the ship near Lillesand and sank it with three torpedoes on April 8, 1940. 183 people were rescued and looked after by the residents of Lillesand and Høvåg, 19 crew members and 164 soldiers were killed.
The location of the wreck was unclear for many years. In June 2015, divers found the wreck at a depth of 135 meters.
Others
A built in Korea in 2008 5900- TEU - container ship of the "Rio" class of the shipping company Hamburg Süd named again Rio de Janeiro .
Fate of the two sister ships
| Launched in service |
Surname | tonnage | shipyard | fate |
| April 21, 1914 May 19, 1914 |
Santa Isabel | 5199 GRT | Bremer Vulkan BauNr. 574 |
August 7, 1914 Meeting with the small cruiser SMS Dresden , when its support ship marched into the Pacific to join the cruiser squadron and then sunk by the British cruiser HMS Bristol in the sea battle near the Falkland Islands |
| 18.04.1914 06.06.1914 |
Santa Clara | 5485 GRT | AG Weser Building No. 204 |
Laid up in Rosario / Argentina in 1914, towed to Germany in 1920, delivered in 1921: Den of Airlie / GB, July 18, 1923, purchased by the German East Africa Line , deployed as Ulanga , caught fire on September 5, 1931 while leaving, Introduced to Antwerp , but burned out, scrapped |
literature
- Carl Herbert: War voyages of German merchant ships. Broschek & Co, Hamburg 1934.
- Arnold Kludas: The ships of Hamburg-Süd 1871 to 1951. Gerhard Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg 1976, ISBN 3-7979-1875-5 .
- Kristen Taraldsen: “Da krigen kom til Lillesand.” Den dramatiske torpederingen av “Rio de Janeiro” April 8, 1940. In: Fædrelandsvennen . Kristiansand 1984, ISBN 82-90581-00-9 .
- Kristen Taraldsen: Ti i krig. Fædrelandsvennen, [Kristiansand] 1998, ISBN 82-90581-28-9 .
Web links
- Nils Skovheim: Rio de Janeiro. In: dykkepedia.com
- Posting. In: warsailors.com
- Transporter Rio de Janeiro. In: historisches-marinearchiv.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kludas, p. 70.
- ↑ Tyskernes angrep på Norge starts April 8th ( memento from June 26th 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: Levende historie, 2009, accessed November 15, 2019 (Norwegian).
- ^ Morten Rosenvinge, Lars Sigurd Sunnanå: Har funnet vraket av "Rio de Janeiro". In: NRK . June 23, 2015, accessed November 15, 2019 (Norwegian).