The Santa class was a series of six motor ships owned by the Hamburg Süd shipping company . The ships put into service between 1951 and 1953 were the first Hamburg Süd liners after the war. The ship class consisted of two differently sized ship types of combination ships .
In January 1950, immediately after the restrictions on the construction of seagoing ships by the Potsdam Agreement , the shipping company Hamburg-Südamerikanischer Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft Eggert & Amsinck ordered the first four ships of the Santa class from Hamburg's Howaldtswerke. These four ships, the Santa Ursula , Santa Elena , Santa Catarina and Santa Isabel , represented the first post-war new builds of liner cargo ships according to the provisions of the Petersberg Agreement agreed in November 1949. In terms of shipbuilding, the first four units were almost identical replicas of the pre-war cargo ships of the Belgrano class of the South American Service, which had also been provided with passenger facilities.
The ships, the furnishings of which were designed by the naval architect Caesar Pinnau , could be taken over between May 1951 and January 1952, only 15 months after the order. The first ship of the class, the Santa Ursula , was the first ship of Hamburg Süd to be newly built in Hamburg after the war and the largest ship in the newly emerging German merchant fleet. When it was launched , Mayor Max Brauer spoke personally in order to express the hopes that Hamburgers had with regard to the resurgence of the port as a hub of global sea trade . On April 5, the Santa Ursula began her maiden voyage to South America under the command of Captain Sander.
After the positive experience gained with the first four ships, Hamburg Süd ordered two ships of a technically advanced and enlarged type from Hamburg's Howaldtswerke. These ships were also designed by Caesar Pinnau, who was also responsible for the characteristically streamlined structure that has become known as the New Look . The Santa Teresa was delivered in January 1953, one year after the last delivery of the Santa class, the Santa Inés followed in March 1953. For Hamburg Süd, it was the last ships with more than twelve passenger seats.
The Santa class was used on the route Hamburg, Bremen, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Recife, Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo, Buenos Aires and back. A round trip lasted about 100 days.
The last two ships built, the Santa Teresa and Santa Inés , only ran with Hamburg Süd until the summer of 1961 and were then sold as Rustom to Bangladesh and Ocean Energy to Pakistan. The four smaller ships stayed in the Hamburg Süd fleet longer. In 1964 the Santa Ursula and Santa Elena were sold to Chile as Angol and Austrac . The Santa Catarina , renamed in 1959 under the Rudolf A. Oetker flag in Cap Salinas , was given to Greece as Kalimnos in 1965 . As the last ship of the class, the Santa Isabel was sold to Uruguay in 1968 and kept her name. In the 1970s and early 1980s the ships were scrapped again.
The ships
Ship name
Construction number
IMO number
Launch
delivery
Renaming and whereabouts
Santa Ursula
866
5312953
December 16, 1950
March 24, 1951
1964 Angol , 1969 Bright Sky , 1977 Pappis P. , 1979 Alexi H. , caught fire on November 15, 1981 in Bandar Abbas and arrived on December 21, 1981 at the Sri Sai Baba Shipbreaking Company in Bombay for demolition
Santa Elena
867
no
17th February 1951
May 15, 1951
1964 Austral , burned out and sunk on January 2, 1967 on a trip from Callao to Valparaiso in Santos
Santa Catarina
870
5060768
July 28, 1951
17th October 1951
1959 conversion to the refrigerated ship Cap Salinas , 1965 Kalimnos , 1975 Popi II , laid up in Chalkis from November 9, 1977 and canceled at Nan Long Steel & Iron Company in Kaohsiung from November 22, 1979
Santa Isabel
873
5312264
November 10, 1951
January 24, 1952
1962 shipping company training ship, 1968 Albur II , 1972 Baring , 1977 Eurosailor , caught fire on July 24, 1979 on the voyage from Cartagena via Piraeus to Basrah off Ayios Nikolaos and abandoned off Crete, later towed and on July 25 with Milos aground, recovered and dragged to Piraeus on August 9th and burned out the next day, laid in the roadstead in front of Eleusis and declared a total loss in January 1980, sold for demolition in September 1980 and towed by the tanker Vernicos Dimitrios on September 25th, 1980 Arrived in Tripoli for unloading, expelled by bad weather on November 21 or 22, 1980, stranded and later built into a breakwater
Santa Teresa
880
5302441
September 29, 1952
January 22, 1953
1961 Rustom , arrived in Karachi for demolition on May 9, 1980 and scrapped at NR & Company in Gadani Beach on November 8
Santa Inés
881
5260306
January 14, 1953
March 15, 1953
1961 Ocean Energy , sold for demolition to Ahmad Shipbreaking Industries of Gadani Beach on May 15, 1980
literature
Harald Focke / Frank Scherer: With the combined ship to Rio and the Far East. Hamburg Süd, Hapag and NDL. Oceanum Verlag, Wiefelstede, ISBN 978-3-86927-421-8 .
Otto J. Seiler: Course South America . Verlag ES Mittler & Sohn, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0523-1 .
Hamburg Süd Public Relations (Ed.): Hamburg Süd . Hamburg South American Steamship Company Eggert & Amsimck 1871 to 1981. Self-published, Hamburg 1981.
Friedrich Böer: Everything about a ship . A little ship customer. 2nd Edition. Herder publishing house, Freiburg 1956.
Arnold Kludas : The ships of Hamburg-Süd 1871-1951 . 1st edition. Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg and Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-7979-1875-5 .
Article about the Santa Ursula . In: Die Zeit , No. 51/1950
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