Rositz (ship)
 The Tanker Rositz as Harriet E
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The tanker Rositz was a merchant ship of the GDR - state shipping company VEB Deutsche Seereederei Rostock (DSR). It was bought abroad and paid for with convertible foreign currency from the Hobby Horse movement initiated by the Radebeul company VEB Hobby Horse. It was named in 1960 after the municipality of Rositz , located in the Altenburger Land district of Thuringia .
History of the ship
Construction as a drinking water tanker (1940)
The war order number I / 39 of November 27, 1940 included the construction of a drinking water tanker for the German Navy with the name Ems in the shipyard "NV Scheepswerf De Groot & Van Vliet" in Slikkerveer, the Netherlands . The ship was assigned hull number 246. After the ship was launched on September 15, 1944, it was registered as an "unfinished object" in the navy records and from Rotterdam in the direction of Wilhelmshaven to the naval shipyard there from the end of November 1944 . At the end of the Second World War , the ship was unfinished in Lübeck .
Extensions in Cuxhaven (1952/53)
The Beckmann shipyard based in Cuxhaven bought the ship on October 20, 1952, moved it and had the hull extended in its own shipyard. On October 26, 1952, the ship's second launch took place. The "Tankreederei Ebeling" in Hamburg took over the ship with the new name Harriet E. as a coastal tanker . For economic reasons, it was extended by several meters in the Cuxhaven shipyard in Mützelfeldtwerft in the summer of 1953 . In the early summer of 1954, the "Tankreederei Ebeling Hamburg" went bankrupt and the ship fell due to the liabilities to the " Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft AG Hamburg". After being renamed again, the tanker was now called Pamela . The new owner from October 1956 was "KR Olea Tankschiff GmbH", Hamburg. At the beginning of 1957 there was another new owner, "Luise Schiffahrts GmbH Hamburg".
Collision on the Elbe (1957)
On the way for this company, loaded with petrol and diesel oil , the ship collided on October 12, 1957 in the Elbe estuary with the freighter Clio (1,487 GRT / year of construction 1944) sailing under the Finnish flag and caught fire. In this ship accident four people were killed and fifteen were rescued. The burnt-out ship was towed to Cuxhaven, rebuilt at the Beckmann shipyard and once again, lengthened to over 62 meters, and put back into motion.
Sale to the GDR (1960)
As part of the hobby horse movement that had started in the meantime and the currency funds available, the Deutsche Seereederei succeeded in buying the tanker and starting it on March 28, 1960 under the name Rositz . It was used in the North and Baltic Seas . After nearly six years of use for the German Seereederei they delivered the ship on January 1, 1967, to the Department bunker fleet of state-owned Kombinat VEB Minol . At the same time it was renamed Minolo .
Sale to Greece (1970) and Egypt (1979)
The eventful history of the ship continued with the sale of 1970 to the Greek shipowner Antonios Alexatos in Piraeus with his company "Alexatos Shipping Ltd.". In 1975 the tanker was mentioned as Mark I for "Eviaki Shipping SA" with the home port of Piraeus. After the resale in 1979 to the Egyptian shipowner Tamin Sadek, the vehicle was again renamed Maged with its home port of Suez . In 1983, already under the name Tamin I for the company "Matsadis Marine Service" in Suez, it caught fire in the Red Sea . There were almost a thousand tons of bitumen on board as cargo. The crew left the ship on October 3, 1983, which was then considered lost. However, the burned-out wreck was rediscovered and towed to Suez in May 1984, where it sank.
More ships of the Hobby Horse Movement
- Cargo ship Kap Arkona (date of handover to the DSR: November 12, 1958)
- Cargo ship Stubbenkammer (December 17, 1958)
- Hobby Horse Cargo Ship (January 5, 1959)
- Cargo ship Stoltera (February 26, 1959)
- Tanker Schwarzheide (April 30, 1960)
- Tanker Lützkendorf (June 17, 1960)
literature
- German shipping companies Volume 23 VEB Deutsche Seereederei Rostock Author collective Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen ISBN 3-928473-81-6
- Gerd Peters: The purchase of old tonnage ships for the GDR merchant fleet. Poetry and truth about the hobby horse movement. In: Full ahead. For sailors and friends of seafaring. Issue No. 12, May 2007, pp. 4/5. Type IV driving people eV (publisher), Rostock 2007
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Full advance newspaper for drivers (PDF; 540 kB)
- ↑ The freighter Clio in the Miramar Ship Index ( 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.
