Sloman Neptun Schiffahrts AG

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Sloman Neptun Schiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft

logo
legal form Corporation
ISIN DE0008271008
founding 1873
Seat Bremen
management Sven-Michael Edye,
Dirk Lohmann
Number of employees 486
sales EUR 143.8 million
Branch Shipping company
Website www.sloman-neptun.com
As of December 31, 2013

A ship of the shipping company in the port of Bremen

The Sloman Neptun Schiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft is a German shipping company based in the Hanseatic city of Bremen .

The shipping company

The Sloman Neptun shipping company operates 13 liquid gas and 7 chemical tankers as well as three RoRo ships . In 2012, two heavy-lift carriers for cargo items up to 300 tons were added. In addition to transporting gas and chemicals, the shipping company operates liner shipping to England, Antwerp and North Africa as well as services in the port areas.

history

Sloman shipping company

Robert Miles Sloman d. Ä.

The Sloman shipping company is the oldest existing shipping company in Germany. It was founded in 1793 by the Englishman and captain William Sloman (1744-1800), who came from the county of Norfolk , after he moved to Hamburg in 1791, where he acquired civil rights. His son William Palgrave Sloman (1778-1811) continued the lodging business. His brother, the Anglo-German shipowner Robert Miles Sloman (Rob. M. Sloman the Elder) (1783–1867) was able to successfully expand the company. The number of ships and the number of shipping routes served increased significantly. At the beginning she only drove to and from England, in the following years connections were added all over the world, especially New York became the preferred destination port. With the Bark Franklin she opened the liner service in 1836 as the first regular transatlantic connection.

In 1825 a steamship line was built from Hamburg to London and in 1828 to Kingston upon Hull . In 1836 there were already 15 steamers on 122 voyages to London. The Hamburg – Hull connection peaked in 1836 with eleven steamers and 101 voyages. In 1838/1839 Sloman planned his entry into these shipping connections. In 1840, Sloman therefore founded the Hanseatic Steamship Company in Hamburg . The paddle steamers Hamburg and Manchester came into service and a liner service between Hamburg and Kingston upon Hull was established.

An attempt at the first worldwide cruises did not find enough customers in 1845.

Steamship Helena Sloman

In 1850 Helena Sloman made her maiden voyage from Hamburg to New York. This propeller-driven liner steamer with possible auxiliary sails was the first regular transatlantic steamer to sail the North Atlantic and had space for 310  passengers . Sailing ships took 50 days at that time, the Helena Sloman was able to cover the route in around 30 days.

In 1859 the shipping company had risen to become the largest shipping company in Hamburg with 21 ships. In 1867 the son of the company founder Robert Miles Sloman the Elder died. His son of the same name Robert Miles Sloman the Younger (1812–1900) continued the shipping company in the third generation. From 1864 he had a seat in the Hamburg parliament and in 1867 was a member of the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation . In the fourth generation, the shipping company remained in the family with Eward Carr (1835–1892), John Alfred Edye (1845–1919), Crisia Sloman (1841–1933) with Friedrich Leopold Loesener (1834–1903) and Stephani Sloman (1848–1945 ) with Carl Alphons Brödermann (1840-1892).

Shipping of emigrants

From 1841 onwards, Sloman called New Orleans and ports in the Gulf of Mexico and then ports in Texas . As a result, 3,318 emigrants reached the southern states of the USA by 1860. From 1839 individual trips also led to Canada and, increasingly from 1852, up to 16 ships were processed annually. After the pharmacist Hermann Blumenau founded a settler colony in Brazil from 1848/1850 , the Sloman shipping company served this region with one line from 1856; by 1865 5,298 emigrants were transported and by 1876 there were 14,167 emigrants on around 80 ships. From 1848 to 1858 the shipping company carried out shipping connections to Australia , but was unable to stabilize these connections.

Sloman's three-master Leipzig , a cargo ship 55 meters long and 10 meters wide, was converted for the shipping of emigrants to America. For this purpose, the mezzanine and orlop decks were equipped with bunk beds for 544 people. On the second emigration voyage to New York on November 2, 1867, there were 438 people in the tween deck. 79 adults, 22 children and five babies were accommodated in the lightless orlop deck. For 575 people there were 3800 pounds of bread, 14 tons of beef, five tons of bacon, beans, butter and water on board without refrigeration. Including the leftover food that was not consumed on the previous trip and is nine months old. Sloman stalls for 70 days, although according to the Hamburg regulations, supplies would have to be carried for 91 days. Each traveler was only given 0.3 liters of water a day. After 70 days of crossing, 105 of the passengers died of hunger, thirst and cholera, and the survivors were taken to the hospital ship Illinois . A few days earlier, the Sloman sailor Lord Brougham had arrived, on which 75 of 383 passengers had died. Experts described the filthy Leipzig as a "plague cave" and the German Society of the City of New York warned the German emigrants to "entrust themselves to the ships of Mr. RM Sloman in Hamburg". After investigations by the Hamburg Higher Court, Sloman was not found to be at fault and it was noted that "the victims themselves were to blame for their end". Sloman renamed the Leibnitz Liebig and shipped 536 passengers with her to Québec . 41 of them died on the crossing.

After 1871

In 1872 the company entered the Mediterranean shipping industry, mainly to Italy , in order to ensure the supply of tropical fruits as well as other goods. The trip to Australia has also been strengthened. After a strong commitment by Norddeutscher Lloyd , Sloman had to gradually abandon this line by 1886.

Edward Carr (1835-1892), nephew of Robert Miles Sloman the Elder, left in 1879. J., as a partner and ran a ship brokerage. Carr was successful in passenger travel to North America. In 1883, the Carr line carried 16,471 emigrants on 29 journeys and thus a quarter of Hamburg's emigrant traffic. Sloman with his Australian line and Carr contracted in 1886 to form the Union Line , which ran the Hamburg - New York line with 12 steamers from 2,000 to 3,500 tons. The Union line was with a tonnage capacity of 27,000  GRT opposite the Hamburg-America Line with 69,000 BRT a respectable competitor in this field. Union and Hamburg-Amerika-Linie formed a pool, in which the Hamburg-Amerika-Linie took the lead. In 1901 the Sloman heirs divided the Union's property again.

In 1900 the grandson of the company founder Robert Miles Sloman the Younger died. Around 1900 the fleet consisted of 21 ships and the brokerage division handled 120 ships annually.

After 1919
After the First World War , the shipping company had to hand over almost all of the ships - except for two - to the Allies. It started again with the Mediterranean services in 1921 and offices were set up in Genoa and Madrid . Special refrigerated ships took over the fruit transport. In 1937 the shipping company again had 23 ships with 57,361  GRT under its flag.

After 1945
the Second World War resulted in a total loss of all ships. It was not until 1951 that four new ships could be put into operation in Union-Afrika-Linie GmbH , in a partnership with Mathies-Reederei , Hamburg.

As early as 1949 there was a joint service between the Neptune shipping company and Sloman with charter ships in the Mediterranean region. In 1953, Sloman's English company and Sloman established the United Sloman Mediterranean Line . Sloman began refrigerated shipping around 1950 and began using Ro-Ro ships in the 1960s .

In 1968 two more reefer ships ( Sloman Alstertor , Sloman Alsterufer ) began serving in Latin America (only until 1974). A multi-cargo ship followed in 1970 and the first special ships , the Starman America and the Starman Africa , as transporters for heavy and bulky goods in 1972 and 1977 .

In 1973 the Sloman shipping company took over three quarters of the shares in the DG Neptun shipping company . Since 1974 the company has been called Sloman Neptun Schiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft and has relocated its activities to Bremen , since 1996 with its headquarters at Langenstrasse  44.

Since then, the shipping company has consistently been flying the Sloman flag (blue background with white gate and four stars) and the chimneys of the ships show the blue and yellow ribbon of the Neptune shipping company.

In 1974 refrigerated shipping was discontinued. At the same time, the expansion in the area of ​​gas fueling, which had started in 1969 at Neptun, took place. New line-capable multi-purpose ships began their service. 1975 Sloman involved in the container feeder vessel Lapland . From 1978 four multi-purpose container ships for tramping and five RoRo freighters for the Mediterranean area followed. In 1982 one of these ships, the Sloman Ranger , capsized after a collision in the Mediterranean, but was recovered. After hardly any growth was achieved in the North African business apart from liquefied gas, the construction of gas tankers was pushed. The shipping company was able to consolidate its position in the gas industry until the crisis of 2008/2009 and the civil war in Libya led to a decline in sales.

Sloman companies

The Sloman Group existed and consist of the following individual companies in the family:

  • William Sloman , shipping company, 1793–1800 †
  • WP Sloman , ship broker 1798–1811 †
  • William Sloman Wwe , shipping company, 1800–1828 † and 1828–1839, management: WP Sloman (until 1811 †) and Robert Miles Sloman the Elder. Ä. through middlemen as captains and "shipowners".
  • Rob. M. Sloman , ship broker, 1814–1839 (?), Led by Robert Miles Sloman the Elder. Ä.
  • Rob. M. Sloman , shipping company, 1839–1866
  • Rob. M. Sloman Jr. , Ship Broker, 1841 (1842) –1964, Heads: Robert Miles Sloman d. J. (until 1900 †), Edward Carr (1867–1879), John Alfred Edye (1872–1919),
  • Hanseatische Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft zu Hamburg , from 1840, broker: Rob. M. Sloman Jr.
  • Rob. M. Sloman & Co. , 1872–1968 ff, lines a. a .: Robert Miles Sloman d. J. and Friedrich Loesener (1872–1900), John Alfred Edye jr. (1927–1966 †), Max Eyde (1927–1970 †)
  • Rob. M. Sloman Jr. Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH , since 1938, management a. a .: Max Eyde (1938–1970 †), Robert Miles Sloman Reincke (1938–1973 †)
  • Australia Sloman Line , 1882–1888
  • Aktien-Gesellschaft “Alster” , 1898–1912
  • Carl Martin Daniel Jörgensen , 1883–1902
  • Union Line , 1886–1901, North American Line from Sloman and the Carr Line
  • Mathies Reederei KG from 1846, Sloman has been involved since 1934
  • United Sloman Mediterranean Line , England, 1953–1963 (?)

Lines traveled

The Sloman shipping company operated the lines from Hamburg to Central America , South America including Chile and to Australia (1882–1887) as well as from New York to East Asia and from Europe to North America and West Africa . Today it operates routes from Germany to England , Antwerp and North Africa as well as from Italy to North Africa.

Fleet of the Sloman shipping company

Initially, the fleet increased steadily. After 1870, sailing was reduced significantly until around 1895. After the First World War, there were only two ships with 2370 GRT in stock. After the Second World War , the shipping company did not have four ships under its flag until 1951.

year Sailors Commerz
loads
GRT Dampfer
Motorsch.
GRT
1839 5 624 1,872 -
1850 8th 1,351 4,053 -
1856 20th 4,520 13,560 -
1871 17th 15,717 47,151 -
1890 7th 8,422 25,566 19th 32,707
1901 - - - 20th 37,529
1918 - - - 23 46.133
1937 - - - 23 57,361
1956 - - - 11 28,809
1968 - - - 10 35,770

Particularly important ships

  • The Franklin , 1839–1911, barque for 100 loads, the shipping company's first transatlantic liner service
  • The Howard (I), 1838–1846, sailing ship for 125 loads, first captain Ocke Heinrich Flor
  • The Helena Sloman , the first transatlantic steamship on the North Atlantic in 1850

Particularly important captains

  • Captain Paul Nickels Paulsen (1812-18 ..) Captain of the Helena Sloman and the Howard (I and II)
  • Captain Ocke Heinrich Flor, co-shipowner around 1828
  • Captain Carl Nommensen
  • Captain Wolfram Zuch, ship inspector in the 1960s
  • Captain Günther Reinwald, captain of the DRK support ship Flora
Baumall with sloman house

The sloman house

The Slomanhaus is an office building in Hamburg, which the shipping company had built from 1908 to 1910 according to plans by Martin Haller . In 1921/1922 it was expanded and changed according to plans by Fritz Höger . From around 1826, Sloman tried to buy land on Baumwall in Hamburg, and from around 1830 on, he lived in the timbers of Baumall No. 3.

Neptune shipping company

In 1869, the Bremen tobacco traders Johann Hermann and Johann Christian Niemann founded the J. H. & C. Niemann shipping company, which Niemann largely managed with its good relations with Sweden . The ships were allowed to sail under the neutral Swedish flag and were thus safe from French privateers. In 1873 the shipping company was renamed a stock corporation and it was now called Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft “Neptun” Actien-Gesellschaft , based in Bremen. The main shipping areas were the North Sea and the Baltic Sea as well as the Weser and, since 1889, the Rhine . From 1887, Spanish and Portuguese ports were also called. By 1898, the shipping company expanded to 45 mostly smaller steamers.

After the First World War , the ban on German merchant shipping on large seas did not have such a negative impact, as the Neptun shipping company only owned smaller ships. In 1925 the first motor ship sailed under the Neptune flag. In the 1920s, the shipping company was dependent on the steam shipping company "Hansa" (DDG "Hansa") and the North German Lloyd (NDL). The NDL acquired the majority of the shares in 1930, but ran into great financial difficulties itself from 1930, so that in 1932 Neptun was spun off again. In 1939 72 ships and four barges were managed, ships that were largely lost in World War II . In 1945 the restart began with twelve small, old ships. Since 1949 the Neptun shipping company has been working closely with the Hamburg shipping company Sloman. In 1973 the Sloman shipping company took over the majority of the shares in Neptun and since 1974 the company has been called Sloman Neptun Schiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft .

See also

literature

  • Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
  • Reinhold Thiel: Dampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft Neptun 1873: Sloman Neptun Schiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft . Hauschild, Bremen 1998, ISBN 978-3-931785-72-7 .
  • Ernst Hieke: Rob. M. Sloman. Erected in 1793 . Hanseatischer Merkur, Hamburg 1968.
  • Juliane Stier, Pilar Croÿ: 1793–1993. Sloman Hamburg - 200 years of shipping company . Hamburg 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. employees and sea personnel without board; Source: 2013 consolidated financial statements in the eBundesanzeiger
  2. Sales 2013 (PDF)
  3. Sloman Neptune becomes heavy-lift carrier. (No longer available online.) In: Verkehrsrundschau. August 2, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 7, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.verkehrsrundschau.de  
  4. ^ Tab of the Hanseatische Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft in the Hamburg commercial register  in the German digital library ; Retrieved January 18, 2015
  5. Cay Rademacher death trip from Hamburg , mare No. 137, p. 41 ff

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 39.7 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 4.9 ″  E