Stone tower (ship, 1911)
 The typical ship Warturm
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The stone tower of the Deutsche Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft Hansa (DDG "Hansa"), completed in 1911, was the eighth and last ship of the Warturm class that had been in service with the shipping company since 1908.
In 1914 the ship was confiscated by the British authorities and used as a hunnie during World War I.
In 1923 the ship was bought back by the DDG "Hansa" and put back into service as the second Axenfels . At the end of 1932 the ship was sold for demolition.
History of the ship
The stone tower got its name after the tower built in 1309, which protected the transition of the old military road over the Dobbengraben, a tributary of the Weser, in the east of the city.
The stone tower (building no. 178), launched on August 5, 1911 as the last ship of the Warturm class and delivered on September 15, was 127 m long. She was 16.36 m wide and had a draft of 7.68 m. The stone tower was measured with 5325 GRT and had a load capacity of 8188 tdw. Driven by a 3-cylinder triple expansion machine of the shipyard of 2300 PSi, which acted on a propeller and gave the ship a speed of 11 knots. It was the only new building of the class that was delivered by AG Weser to DDG "Hansa". The Joh. C. Tecklenborg shipyard had built five ships of the class ; this came Fangturm of Swan Hunter and Imkenturm from Flensburg .
After the single ship Kattenturm in 1907, only these eight ships were given names ending in -tower until the Second World War . In the Second World War , the type A unit ships were given such names. From 1966 they were used again for supply ships from "offshore" facilities,
Mission history
The ships of the Warturm class were often used by the DDG "Hansa" between the USA and the East Indies. No ship of the class was at home in 1914. Three ships were immediately confiscated by the British at the start of the war, the Adamsturm in the USA in 1917. You and the page tower were sunk by German submarines during the World War. Even the ships that survived the World War in neutral ports had to be handed over to the victorious powers after the surrender conditions in 1919.
The stone tower was confiscated by the British authorities in Colombo in 1914 . From 1915 the ship was used by the British authorities as a transporter under the name Hunnie and thus belonged to the so-called Hunnendampfer .
She survived the First World War but found no buyer on the part of the victorious powers in the post-war period, so that the DDG "Hansa" was able to buy back her former ship at the end of 1923.
As the fifth repurchase of its own ship, the DDG "Hansa" acquired the former stone tower on October 25, 1923 and renamed it Axenfels . This name was borne by a cargo ship of 4464 GRT built in Flensburg from 1904 to 1915, which was confiscated by Italy in Massaua in 1915 and was in service there as Alberto Cavaletto . All of the repurchased ships came from different pre-war series
The second Axenfels was used as a smaller ship primarily to the Persian Gulf and the ports of today's Pakistan, but also to all other society's destinations. Because of the global economic crisis, like many of the shipping company's ships, it was launched in Bremen on July 17, 1932 and sold to the original shipyard, now Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG Werk: AG "Weser", in Bremen on December 24, 1932 for demolition. Some of the
surviving ships of the Warturm class suffered the same fate; only two ships were left at the beginning of the Second World War. The first Axenfels was also canceled after further renaming as Annina from the summer of 1933 in Italy.
The ships of the Warturm class
| Surname | Shipyard | GRT tdw |
Launched in service |
further fate |
| Warturm | Tecklenborg building no. 228 |
4965 7600 |
23.05.1908 06.30.1908 |
1914 Bombay , deployed under the British flag without changing its name, sold to Turnbull, Scott & Co: Nethergate in 1922 , for demolition in 1932 |
| Catch tower | Swan Hunter construction no. 146 |
4933 7800 |
09/10/1908 10/28/1908 |
1914 Palma , 1919 from Spain to France, 1921 on to Belgium, November 1921 Armement Deppe : Antverpia , May 21, 1940 on his way home from the USA sunk by German aircraft off Boulogne |
| Bee tower | Flensburg building no. 290 |
5004 7800 |
August 25, 1909 October 2, 1909 |
1914 Surabaja , 1919 from the Netherlands to Great Britain, 1920 Hain Steamship Co .: Trevessa , 4th June 1923 from voyage from Australia to South Africa with a cargo of zinc concentrate sunk in the Indian Ocean |
| Page tower | Tecklenborg building no. 233 |
5000 7780 |
August 31, 1909 October 12, 1909 |
1914 Calcutta , used without change of name under the British flag 1917 May 16 channel through UB 40 sunk |
| Adamsturm | Tecklenborg building no. 234 |
5000 7780 |
16.10.1909 30.11.1909 |
1914 New York , confiscated in 1917: Actaeon , sunk by UB 58 north of Cape Finisterre , November 24, 1917 |
| Arsterturm | Tecklenborg building no. 395 |
5035 7723 |
December 14, 1910 January 10, 1911 |
1914 Sabang , 1919 from the Netherlands to Great Britain, 1920 to Turnbull, Scott & Co: Whithegate , launched in 1930, sold for demolition in 1937 |
| Shield tower | Tecklenborg building no. 240 |
5095 7790 |
May 10, 1911 July 7, 1911 |
1914 Antwerpen , 1919 UK, 1920 Turnbull, Scott & Co: Flowergate June 6, 1944 as Gooseberry N ° 3 before Arromanches sunk |
| Stone tower | AG Weser Building No. 178 |
5325 8188 |
August 5, 1911 September 15, 1911 |
1914 Colombo, used as a Hunnie, buyback in October 1923: Axenfels , sold for demolition in December 1932 |
Web links
- The stone tower on ddghansa
literature
- Carl Herbert: War voyages of German merchant ships . Broschek & Co, Hamburg 1934.
- Hans Georg Prager: DDG Hansa - from liner services to special shipping. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1976, ISBN 3-7822-0105-1 .
- Reinhardt Schmelzkopf: German merchant shipping 1919–1939 . Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1974, ISBN 3-7979-1847-X .
- Reinhold Thiel: The history of the DDG Hansa. Volume 1: 1881-1918. HM Hauschild, Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89757-477-9 .