Societatea Anonimă Română de Navigațiune pe Dunăre

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The SRD ship Aurora 1940 in the port of Constana

The Societatea Anonimă Română de Navigațiune pe Dunăre (SRD - German: "Romanian Danube Shipping Company") was a Romanian shipping company that existed from 1914 to 1948.

history

founding

The SRD was founded in 1914 by a merger of the banks Banca Românească , Banca Agricolă, Banca Marmorosch Blank & Co., Commerz und Diskontobank, Banca Comercială Română , Banca Generală Română, Banca de Scont din București, Banca de Credit Român, Banca Comerțului, Fratelli Company Bach și G. Fernic was founded and has a start-up capital of 15 million lei . The company's headquarters became Bucharest . In addition, agencies were maintained in 17 ports, in addition to those in Romanian ports also others abroad, for example in Belgrade , Budapest , Bratislava , Vienna and Regensburg .

Served routes

The main focus of activity was freight and passenger traffic on the Danube . The shipping company operated push boats, tankers, tugs and barges as well as passenger ships, which were used between the Romanian sea and inland ports, but also further up the Danube in cross-border traffic. The route Romania - Bulgaria was served in regular service, the rest of the Danube only with occasional trips, in freight traffic only with complete barge loads. In addition to inland vessels, the shipping company also had ocean-going vessels. Figures from 1939 last showed around 100,000 passengers a year. The extent to which connections in the Black Sea were served must be checked.

Ships

Over the decades, around 120 ships drove for the shipping company. The best-known ship was the SRD Aurora , a former mine-layer of the Austrian Navy, which was requisitioned by the Romanian Navy during World War II and used again as a mine-layer. Several other ships of the shipping company were also confiscated by the navy - such as the SRD Negoiul or the SRD Amurgul - and used as minesweepers, guard ships, etc.

fate

After the Second World War and with the establishment of the communist government, the company was liquidated . With the Nationalization Act of 1948, it became state property and integrated into the Soviet-Romanian shipping company Sovromtransport .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro/wiki/SRD  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / enciclopediaromaniei.ro  
  2. ↑ http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro/wiki/SRD  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ., https://fotw.info/flags/ro~hf.html#srd , http://www.polpi.net/seite%2031.htm@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / enciclopediaromaniei.ro  
  3. ↑ http://navyworld.narod.ru/Monitoare.htm , http://www.geocities.ws/dangrecu/VaseArmF.html
  4. ↑ http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro/wiki/SRD  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / enciclopediaromaniei.ro  

literature

  • Neculai Padurariu, Reinhart Schmelzkopf: The sea merchant ships of Romania 1878-1944 (Part I) , In: Strandgut 60/2006, Cuxhaven 2006, pp. 79-142.
  • Neculai Padurariu, Reinhart Schmelzkopf: The sea merchant ships of Romania 1878–1944 (Part II) , In: Strandgut 61/2006, Cuxhaven 2006, pp. 101–156.

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