ST class (1957)

ST class

The Stolzenfels , 1961 in Port Said

Ship data Ship type Cargo motor ship Shipping company DDG "Hansa", Bremen Shipyard Atlas-Werke, Bremen Construction period 1956 to 1958 Units built 3 Cruising areas Red Sea Voyage

Ship dimensions and crew length 114.30 m ( Lüa ) 104.00 m ( Lpp ) width 14.85 m Side height 9.10 m Draft Max. 6.115 m measurement ~ 3900 GRT ~ 2050 NRT   crew 32

Machine system machine 2 × ten-cylinder four-stroke diesel engines MaK MZu 582 A on a gearbox Machine performance 3,860 hp (2,839 kW) Top speed 15.5 kn (29 km / h) propeller 1 × fixed propeller

Transport capacities Load capacity 4130 dw Permitted number of passengers 2

The ship class known as the ST class is a series of three cargo ships operated by the Bremen shipping company DDG “Hansa” .

history

The Stolzenfels , in 1961 in the dock of the AG Weser

The three ships were originally commissioned on January 21, 1956 by the shipping company Norgulf Shipping from Monrovia at the Bremer Atlas-Werke . The shipping company DDG "Hansa" took over the building contract in order to be able to counter the tonnage shortage of the 1950s.

After their delivery, the ships were used almost exclusively for the journey to the Red Sea at DDG. After the Suez Canal was closed in 1967, the series was no longer suitable for the areas of application of the "Hansa" due to its small size and was sold en bloc to the Shipping Company of India from Bombay in 1968 . This used the ships until 1979 to 1981, before handing them over to the Vijaya Lines, also based in Bombay. The former lead ship Sternenfels capsized as Vijaya Jyoti in Indira Dock in Bombay on October 15, 1980 and was then broken up at Rama Shipbreaking in Bombay, the remaining two ships remained in service until 1985 before they were finally scrapped at Rama Shipbreaking.

technology

The ship type had superstructures arranged aft with machinery below. In front of it there were three holds , each with an intermediate deck, which had a total grain volume of 7341 m ³ and a ball space of 6705 m ³ . The loading gear consisted of eight loading trees with a capacity of 3/5 tons each, two trees of 5/10 tons and a 35 t heavy lift boom, which was arranged in front of hatch III.

The propulsion of the ships consisted of two ten-cylinder four-stroke diesel engines of the type MaK MZu 582 A each with an output of 1930 hp, which acted on the individual fixed propellers via a gearbox. The propulsion system allowed a speed of up to 15.5 knots and had a fuel consumption of around 15 tons per day.

The ships

ST class
Building name	Build number	IMO number	Keel laying, launching, delivery	Later names and whereabouts
Norprado	393	5340869	December 4, 1956 May 16, 1957 September 7, 1957	1957 in service as Sternenfels , in November 1963 collision off the Norwegian coast, June 1968 Vishva Lalita , 1979 Vijaya Jyoti , capsized in the dock in Bombay on September 15, 1980, scrapped in Bombay from September 1981
Norcastle	395	5341289	- September 20, 1957 December 19, 1957	1957 in operation as Stolzenfels , June 1968 Vishva Pratibha , 1981 Vijaya Vaibhav , launched on May 9, 1983 in Bombay, scrapped in Bombay from March 1985
Nortropic	396	5342594	July 31, 1957 January 28, 1958 April 19, 1958	1958 in drive as Sturmfels , June 1968 Vishva Anand , 1980 Vijaya Jiwan , launched on April 26, 1983 in Bombay, scrapped in Bombay from March 1985
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literature

• Kiehlmann, Peter; Patzer, Holger: The cargo ships of the German Steamship Company "HANSA" . HM Hauschild, Bremen 2000, ISBN 3-931785-02-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ KO Storck: Die Deutsche Handelsflotte 1961 , Seehafen-Verlag Erik Blumenfeld, Hamburg, 1961, p. 20
2. ↑ Kiehlmann, Peter; Patzer, Holger: The cargo ships of the German Steamship Company "HANSA" . HM Hauschild, Bremen 2000, ISBN 3-931785-02-5 , p. 232/233 .