Stettin (ship, 1886)
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The Reichspostdampfer Stettin was the first newly built ship of the North German Lloyd (NDL) for a branch of the Reichspostdampferdienst. After signing the contract with the German Reich, NDL ordered three steamers each for the main and branch lines from AG Vulcan in Stettin .
One of the goals of the Reichspostdampfergesetz, a major contract for the German shipbuilding industry, had already been achieved. Until then, the NDL had only ordered a few steamers for the trip to England from German shipyards. AG Vulcan in Stettin became the main contractor of the NDL and delivered 24 ocean liners to the NDL by 1914, all four four-chimney high-speed steamers and the largest Lloyd prewar ship, George Washington .
commitment
The Stettin ran out on June 17, 1886 for its transfer trip to Hong Kong , from there to serve the agreed branch line to Japan. On August 13, the first trip of the NDL to Nagasaki began . Like the sister ships, the steamer did not prove itself particularly well. The small, luxuriously equipped ships turned out to be impractical to handle and hardly usable in bad weather.
On August 26, 1887, the Stettin began service on the Mediterranean branch line Brindisi - Port Said , where the sister ship Danzig was also used. In 1893 the line was abandoned because the mail steamers now took over the tracking mail from Germany in Naples . The ship was launched and chartered in 1894 to Wilhelm Bade with Captain Wempe, who started a four-week Spitsbergen cruise with him on August 5th .
While the sister ships were sold, the Stettin was lengthened by 16 m at the Seebeck shipyard to replace the Lübeck on the Singapore - New Guinea branch , which needed a larger ship. From July 1900 the Stettin was used as far as Sydney (line extension).
In November 1900, the Stettin was sold to China (most recently Loong Yue ), came into Japanese possession in 1917 ( Ryuyu Maru ) and was canceled in 1931.
The sister ships Lübeck and Danzig
The Lübeck had started her transfer trip to Sydney on June 30, 1886 . On September 7th, she drove for the first time on the agreed branch line to Tonga and Apia ( Samoa ). From April 1893, she then served the newly agreed branch line Singapore via Batavia to New Guinea .
At the end of 1895 the ship was sold and in 1903 it was lost as the Japanese Gaisen Maru due to stranding.
Danzig , which was delivered in November 1886, began service on February 11, 1887 on the agreed branch line Trieste - Brindisi - Port Said. On July 15, 1987, she opened the shortened branch line from Brindisi. When this mail feeder line was discontinued in 1893, the Danzig continued to travel on a coastline Genoa - Naples - Palermo for a while . As in the previous year, the Stettin , the Danzig was chartered to Wilhelm Bade in 1895, who carried out another Spitsbergen cruise with her (captain again Wempe) from July 17th to August 16th, 1895. In the process, she rammed an unmapped underwater rock and damaged the double floor, but was released again on her own.
Sold to Sloman in November , it was renamed Frascati . Sold to England in 1900, it was lost on January 4, 1902 when it was stranded on Watling Island , Bahamas , on a trip from New York to Jamaica .
See: List of ships with the name Lübeck
literature
- Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping. Volume 1: The pioneering years from 1850 to 1890. Kabel, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-8225-0037-2
- ders .: The ships of the North German Lloyd. Volume 1: 1857-1919. Koehler, Herford 1991, ISBN 3-7822-0524-3 .
- Christine Reinke-Kunze: History of the Reichs-Post-Steamers. Connection between the continents 1886–1914. Koehler, Herford 1994, ISBN 3-7822-0618-5
Web links
- Captain Wilhelm Bade. Pioneer of German polar tourism , essay by W. Vierow from an edition of Fluke