Shell C class

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Ship data
Ship type Tanker
Shipping company Shell tankers
Shipyard Betlehem Steel Co.
Construction period Since 1949
Cruising areas Worldwide trip
Ship dimensions and crew
length
190, 40 m ( Lüa )
184 m ( Lpp )
width 25.60 m
Side height 13.40 m
Draft Max. 10.0 m
measurement 18,230 - 18,260 GRT
 
crew 48/56
Machine system
machine 2 × transmission steam turbines
Machine
performance 		12,500 PSw
Top
speed 		16 kn (30 km / h)
propeller 1

The five cap tankers built in 1950 in the USA for the US Navy formed the later Shell C-Class . From September 1958 to April 1959 , they were handed over from Atlas Tanker, Panama, to Deutsche Shell Tanker-Gesellschaft (DSTG), Hamburg .

The shipping company

The Deutsche Shell Tanker-Gesellschaft mbH., Hamburg, was founded in 1958 as a tanker company, managing directors were CF Schmidt and J. Baumgarten, full-time board members of Deutsche Shell . Immediately after the company was founded, the shipping company took over the steam turbine- powered tankers built in the USA for the Navy in 1949/50, with their home port in Hamburg.

The market for patent holders with steam turbine experience was swept empty in Germany at that time, so it was difficult to man the ships accordingly. Around 50 to 60 crew members were hired for each tanker . The ships were used from the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf to Hamburg. They were scrapped after around 25 years of service.

The ships

Shell C class
Building name Shipyard / construction number IMO number delivery Later names and whereabouts
Capsa Bethlehem Steel ,
1613		 5062754 January 11, 1950 January 10, 1959 to Deutsche Shell Tanker-Gesellschaft (DSTG), Hamburg; scrapped in Kaohsiung on August 9, 1976
Capulus Bethlehem Steel,
1614		 5063045 March 15, 1950 February 9, 1959 to Deutsche Shell Tanker-Gesellschaft (DSTG), Hamburg; scrapped in Pusan on May 12, 1975
Caperata Bethlehem Steel,
1615		 5062156 April 12, 1950 September 6, 1958 to Deutsche Shell Tanker-Gesellschaft (DSTG), Hamburg; scrapped in Bilbao on January 26, 1976
Caprella Bethlehem Steel,
1616		 5062651 June 14, 1950 November 1, 1959 to Deutsche Shell Tanker-Gesellschaft (DSTG), Hamburg; scrapped at Cheng Yung Enterprises (Taiwan) from May 5, 1977
Caprinus Bethlehem Steel,
1617		 5062742 September 14, 1950 April 3, 1959 to Deutsche Shell Tanker-Gesellschaft (DSTG), Hamburg; from August 25, 1978 Shun Fong Iron Works Hong Kong scrapped

See also

literature

  • Brennecke, Jochen: Tanker - From the petroleum clipper to the super tanker . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1975, ISBN 3-7822-0066-7 , p. 233/234 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Capsa , HelderLine.
  2. ↑ Capulus , HelderLine.
  3. ↑ Caperata , HelderLine.
  4. ↑ Caprella , HelderLine.
  5. ↑ Caprinus , HelderLine.