Rodina (ship, 1944)
Standard ship type Hansa-B
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The Rodina was a Bulgarian cargo ship of the German type Hansa-B , which was originally to be named Alstertor . Completed in 1945, it briefly carried the Danish flag as Fornaes and Danbelt and the Bulgarian flag from 1946 until it was dismantled in 1976.
Construction and technical data
During the Second World War , several German shipping companies founded Schiffahrt Treuhand GmbH in order to compensate for their war losses with standard cargo ships with the Hansa building program . In addition to German shipyards, those in the occupied countries were also commissioned with the construction. The Burmeister & Wain shipyard received an order from Schiffahrt Treuhand GmbH for a Hansa-B cargo ship for the Hamburg-America Line (Hapag). The order was placed in 1943 for a Danish front company so that the ship could avoid acts of sabotage by the Danish resistance movement. Upon completion, the new building would have been assigned to Hapag and given the name Alstertor .
The ship was at Burmeister & Wain in Copenhagen under the hull number 679 laid on keel and expired on 14 September 1944 from the stack . In December 1944, the Danish resistance movement carried out an act of sabotage that sank the ship. It was lifted, the completion took place after the end of the war in August 1945. According to the later Bulgarian information, which could differ from the original type designs, the ship was 109.52 meters long, 15.55 meters wide and had a draft of 6, 30 meters. It was measured with 2950 GRT and 1455 NRT. The load capacity was 5280 dwt . A four-cylinder triple expansion steam engine generated 1,800 hp and allowed a speed of 11.0 knots via one screw . The crew, for which only the originally planned number is available, consisted of 33 men (without planned soldiers).
history
Danish fornaes and danbelt
At the end of the war, Denmark confiscated the steamer on May 3, 1945 and after completion the shipyard handed over the steamer, which had been named Fornaes , to D / S Hetland in Copenhagen on August 3, 1945. Only a few months later, she sold the ship on May 22, 1946 to the shipping company D / S Dania, also in Copenhagen, which gave the ship the name Danbelt . The ship stayed even shorter with this shipping company - it was sold on as early as September 1946.
Bulgarian Rodina
After the losses, Bulgaria was also looking for replacements after the Second World War and had formed its own commission in April 1946 to look for opportunities for ship purchases in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. In Copenhagen in June 1946 it was the first new acquisition after the war to acquire the Danbelt for the shipping company Societé Commerciale Bulgare de Navigation à Vapeur and gave it the name Rodina on September 25 when it was commissioned . She was the second ship of the shipping company with this name after the Rodina, which sank in 1941 . For the transfer trip from Copenhagen to Bulgaria she was flying the Polish flag as a preventive measure, as Bulgaria had not yet signed a peace treaty at that time.
With the merger and nationalization of the shipping companies in Bulgaria in 1947/48, the Societé Commerciale Bulgare de Navigation à Vapeur was merged with Navigation Maritime Bulgare , founded in 1941, and took over their names Navibulgar and Rodina . The Rodina had already made Bulgarian maritime history when it was the first Bulgarian ship to cross the equator on September 7, 1947 on the voyage from Aden to Mozambique . In 1952 she was also the first Bulgarian ship to sail into the Indian Ocean . Further trips took her repeatedly across the North Sea to the European coasts. The routes or lines with the ship's journeys cannot be traced back to the Western European literature. After 30 years of service, according to Bulgarian information , the Rodina was removed from the shipping company's fleet list on May 1, 1976 and sold to Yugoslavia for scrapping , while Western European literature mentions 1971 as the scrapping date.
literature
- Karl-Heinz Schwadtke : Germany's merchant ships 1939-1945 , Stalling, Oldenburg, 1974, ISBN 3-7979-1840-2 .
- Ludwig Dinklage / Hans Jürgen Witthöft: The German merchant fleet 1939-1945. The fate of all seagoing ships over 100 GRT , special edition Nikol Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-933203-47-3 .
- Gert U. Detlefsen / Hans J. Abert: The history and the fates of German series freighters, Volume 2: The fates and lives of the Hansa B freighters and Hansa C freighters, the German multi-purpose freighter type 36 / 36L, Trampko, type Rendsburg , BV 16/1800, RW 39/49 and Eco-Box , Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen, Bad Segeberg and Cuxhaven 1999, ISBN 3-928473-42-5 .
- Lars Scholl / Rüdiger Ancken: The marine painter Eduard Adler (1887–1969): a biographical approach , In: Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv Volume 27, 2004, Convent Verlag, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-934613-83-6 , p. 263– 284.
- Bruno Bock, Klaus Bock: The red merchant fleets. The merchant ships of the COMECON countries , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1977, ISBN 3-7822-0143-4 .
Web links
- Rodina - IMO 5298406 at shipspotting.com (with photos), accessed May 1, 2019
- Danish Maritime Museum : S / S Fornaes at billedarkiv.mfs.dk (Danish, with photo as Danish Fornaes ), accessed May 1, 2019
- Detailed ship information on Fornaes / Danbelt at jmarcussen.dk (Danish), accessed on May 1, 2019
- Seefahrts-Zeitung: Ships with the name Rodina in the Bulgarian merchant fleet (Bulgarian), accessed on May 1, 2019
- Seefahrts-Zeitung: Unpublished photo of the Rodina (Bulgarian), accessed on May 1, 2019
- Website of the Bulgarian successor shipping company Navibulgar (Bulgarian / English), accessed on May 1, 2019
- Navibulgar news December 2012 - January 2013 (PDF, history of the shipping company with many photos) (Bulgarian), accessed on May 1, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dinklage / Witthöft, p. 175ff.
- ↑ Scholl / Ancken, p. 269
- ↑ a b Danish Maritime Museum : S / S Fornaes at billedarkiv.mfs.dk
- ↑ a b c Detlefsen, p. 149
- ↑ Seefahrts-Zeitung: Ships with the name Rodina in the Bulgarian merchant fleet
- ↑ Bock, p. 80, p. 176
- ↑ Detailed ship information on Fornaes / Danbelt at jmarcussen.dk
- ↑ Seefahrts-Zeitung: Unpublished photo of the Rodina
- ^ Website of the Bulgarian successor shipping company Navibulgar