Santa Cruz Class (1972)
| Santa Cruz class | |
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| Ship data | |
| Ship type : | Cargo motor ship |
| Builders: | Lübeck Flender-Werke AG, Lübeck |
| Technical specifications | |
| Measurement : | 10,481 BRT (7485 BRT) 6348 NRT (4430 NRT) |
| Load capacity : | 12,787 t (9768 t) |
| Length over all: | 148.60 m |
| Length between perpendiculars: | 143.90 m |
| Width over everything: | 21.70 m |
| Side height: | 12.00 m |
| Draft : | 7.70 m (9.30 m) |
| machine | |
| Drive: | 2 × Pielstick twelve-cylinder diesel engine |
| Machine power: | 12,000 hp |
| Top speed: | 18.5 kn |
| Others | |
| Number of crew: | 32 |
| Number of cadets: | 14 + 2 instructors |
| Data: full decker (protective decker) | |
The ship class known as the Santa Cruz class is a series of two motor ships owned by the Hamburg Süd shipping company . The express freighter series represents the last draft of a conventional general cargo ship before the shipping company switched to container ships .
history
The series of this type of ship built by Lübeck's Flender-Werke comprised two units that were ordered in 1969. The first ship of the class was launched on December 23, 1971 and delivered on February 25, 1972 Santa Cruz . The Santa Fé was launched on January 15, 1972 and put into service on May 5 of the same year.
With the two fast freighters, which with their high speed of 18.5 knots made possible a considerable shortening of the journey time, Hamburg Süd hoped to achieve an improvement in the profitability of the not yet containerized liner service to southern Brazil . When the planning for the Santa Cruz class was completed in 1969, the change in long-haul liner traffic through the introduction of the container became clear and as soon as construction began on the ships, the shipping company was switching its liner services to the container, but it was foreseeable that the liner service would to South America would not be converted for the foreseeable future either.
The new ships were used on 65-day round trips from Hamburg and Bremen to Río de Janeiro, Santos, Itajai, Paranagua and, if necessary, other South American east coast ports.
Since the late 1970s at the latest, the container began to establish itself in the South American service. The transformation of Hamburg Süd into a container liner shipping company continued. The Santa Cruz was chartered in 1978 for 16 months as Lloyd Melbourne for the Brazil-Australia service of the Lloyd Brasileiro shipping company . In 1980, two Santa Cruz- class ships were sold to Singapore but were chartered back for three years.
The Santa Cruz then drove only three years as Turtle Bay and from 1986 as Unipuna for the European service of the Peruvian Uniline. In November 1994 the ship reached Alang, India, to be demolished.
The Santa Fe was operated for an additional three years after their service with the Hamburg Süd and in 1986, scrapped after only 14 years of travel time, in Kaohsiung.
technology
The most prominent features were, in addition to the extremely space-saving and very powerful twin-engine propulsion system, which had been designed for partially guard-free operation of the ship, the versatile loading facilities. The ships were equipped with 13 conventional loading booms and three on-board gears. In addition, all ships were equipped with 80-tonne loading gear from Flender-Werke to take over heavy cargo . Further cargo facilities of the seven hatch ships were the refrigerated holds with a capacity of 1800 cubic meters and the cargo tanks for 1200 tons of sweet oil or chemical cargo.
Remarkable, also in the optical sense, is the equipment of all ships of the series, with a bulbous bow and a transom .
The two ships were also equipped with training facilities and accommodation for the training of 14 cadets.
literature
- Ralf Witthohn: Hamburg Süd: with cadets to Rio . In: Deutsche Seeschifffahrt . November 2008, p. 76-77 .
- Sunday, Hartmut; Harms, Uwe: Hamburg South . Hamburg South American steamship company Eggert & Amsimck 1871 to 1981. Ed .: Hamburg Süd Public Relations. Self-published, Hamburg 1981.