Songelv (ship, 1883)

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Ship data
other ship names

Britannia , Neck

Ship type Full ship
Shipyard Oswald, Mordaunt & Co., Southampton
Launch 1883
Whereabouts sunk by submarine
Ship dimensions and crew
length
85.6 m ( Lüa )
width 12.3 m
Draft Max. 8.6 m
measurement 2,063 GRT , 1,973 NRT
Machine system
Rigging and rigging
Rigging Full ship
Number of masts 3

The Songelv was a three - master full ship that was sunk by a German submarine during the First World War .

Construction and technical data

The ship, christened name Britannia , was launched on 17 November 1883 with the hull number 216 on the shipyard of Oswald, Mordaunt & Co. in Southampton for London shipowner John Coupland from the stack . The iron- built ship was 85.6 m long and 12.3 m wide, had a draft of 8.6 m and was measured with 2063 GRT and 1973 NRT .

fate

Coupland sold the ship in 1893 to W. Stisser & Co. in Bremen , who in 1899 sold it to the “Visurgis” shipping company . The "Visurgis", a company incorporated in 1897 and in the tramp shipping active sailing ship -Reederei, gave all their ships names beginning with the letter "N" and renamed the ship around in Neck . The ships of the "Visurgis" were mainly on two routes : they brought coal or general cargo to China and Japan and on the return journey grain from California and Oregon to Europe, or they brought wood from Sweden and Norway to Australia , then coal from Newcastle ( New South Wales) to Chile and from there saltpeter to Europe. The Neck sailed on these routes for more than ten years, but was then sold in February 1911 because the insurance premiums for the more than 25-year-old ship would have risen by 70% for saltpeter trips due to age.

The new owner was A / S Tønsbergs Hvalfangeri (Manager Oscar Hytten) in Tønsberg , Norway , but as early as February 1913 Neck was sold to Skibs-A / S Songelv (Manager Sven O. Stray with his SO Stray & Co. ) in Kristiansand , which was renamed A / S Christiansand in 1916. The ship was given the new name Songelv .

The End

On February 3, 1917, on the journey from Buenos Aires to Falmouth with a load of maize , the Songelv was stopped by the German submarine U 43 under Hellmuth Jürst and, after the crew had been given enough time, to go into the boats , sunk by explosive charges at position 50 ° 3 ′  N , 11 ° 9 ′  W Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 9 ′ 0 ″  W.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Architects and Engineers Association, Bremen: Bremen and its buildings , Schünemann, Bremen, 1900, p. 675
  2. ↑ Hansa , Volume 48, June 1911, p. 412

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