Rodina (ship, 1944)

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Rodina
Standard ship type Hansa-B
Standard ship type Hansa-B
Ship data
flag DenmarkDenmark Denmark Bulgaria
BulgariaBulgaria 
other ship names

Alstertor (planned)
Fornaes (1945–1946)
Danbelt (1946–1946)

Ship type Cargo ship
class Hansa-B
home port Varna , Bulgaria
Shipping company Societé Commerciale Bulgare de Navigation à Vapeur
Shipyard Burmeister & Wain , Copenhagen
Build number 679
Launch September 14, 1944
Commissioning August 3, 1945
Decommissioning May 1, 1976
Whereabouts In 1976 Yugoslavia scrapped
Ship dimensions and crew
length
109.52 m ( Lüa )
width 15.55 m
Draft Max. 6.30 m
measurement 2950 GRT , 1455 NRT
 
crew 33
Machine system
machine 4 cylinder compound expansion machine
Machine
performance 		1,800 hp (1,324 kW)
Top
speed 		11.0 kn (20 km / h)
propeller 1
Transport capacities
Load capacity 5280 dw
Others
Registration
numbers 		IMO number 5298406

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dinklage / Witthöft, p. 175ff.
  2. ↑ Scholl / Ancken, p. 269
  3. ↑ a b Danish Maritime Museum : S / S Fornaes at billedarkiv.mfs.dk
  4. ↑ a b c Detlefsen, p. 149
  5. ↑ Seefahrts-Zeitung: Ships with the name Rodina in the Bulgarian merchant fleet
  6. ↑ Bock, p. 80, p. 176
  7. ↑ Detailed ship information on Fornaes / Danbelt at jmarcussen.dk
  8. ↑ a b Navibulgar news December 2012 - January 2013: History of the shipping company (PDF)
  9. ↑ Seefahrts-Zeitung: Unpublished photo of the Rodina
  10. ^ Website of the Bulgarian successor shipping company Navibulgar