Sumatra (ship, 1889)
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| Launch: | 1889 | |
| Commissioning: | March 12, 1889 | |
| Builder: | G. Howaldt , Kiel | |
| Passengers: | 12 Class I 16 Class II |
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| Crew: | 21 men | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Measurement: | 584 GRT | |
| Load capacity: | 1599 dw | |
| Length (registered): | 52.25 m | |
| Width: | 8.43 m | |
| Draft : | 3.70 m | |
| Machinery: | Triple expansion steam engine | |
| Number of screws: | 1 | |
| Power: | 350 PSi | |
| Top speed: | 10 kn | |
| Whereabouts | ||
| Applied in 1914, sunk in 1923 |
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The steamer Sumatra of North German Lloyd (NDL) was intended for the line Penang - Sumatra . Later he took over the island service of the Reichspostdampferdienst from Rabaul through the colonies of German New Guinea and German Samoa . It was the only seagoing ship that the NDL had built at Howaldt in Kiel until 1914 .
Use for the NDL
The small Sumatra , built by Howaldt in Kiel, started its maiden voyage to Penang on March 12, 1889, to be used there on a feeder line to Sumatra established by the NDL.
The NDL had set up this line at its own initiative in order to bring tobacco as cargo for the Reichspostdampfer . In 1888 the steamer Schwalbe (932 GRT, 12 passengers, 9 knots, 1883 Tecklenborg ) , which was previously used on the England voyage, opened this service. In 1894 the line was largely replaced by the branch line of the Reichspostdampferdienst from Singapore via Sumatra to German New Guinea , on which the Reichspostdampfer for branch lines Lübeck and then Stettin were used. The swallow was sold in Singapore in 1894.
In 1904 the old Sumatra was relocated to Rabaul in order to offer tourist round trips in the archipelago for travelers on the new Reichspostdampferzweig line between Hong Kong and Sydney (Austral-Japan line) from 1905. In the supplementary agreement of July 2, 1909, Lloyd took over the so-called island service within the colony of German New Guinea with ancient Sumatra . She was supposed to call at all important places and factories in the colony at intervals of 3 months and regularly made various round trips.
The Jaluit company had previously carried out a kind of island service from December 9, 1904 with its Germania (1904 Krupp Germania , 1096 BRT, 11 kn, 32 passengers), which continued its steamer from Hong Kong via the Marianas and Marshall Islands , to Rabaul and Sydney ran. Germania made 57 trips by 1914 .
Final fate
After the start of the First World War in 1914, the Sumatra of Rabaul tried to reach neutral Timor , but was attacked by the Australian cruiser HMAS Melbourne on September 13, 1914 off New Pomerania .
Still used by the British, the formerly smallest mail steamer of the NDL sank in a storm off Port Macquarie on June 26, 1923 .
literature
- Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping . Ernst Pagels, Hamburg 1986–90.
- Arnold Kludas: The ships of the North German Lloyd 1857-1918 . Köhlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1991 ISBN 3-7822-0524-3 .
- Christine Reinke-Kunze: The ships history of the Reichspostdampfer . Köhlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1994, ISBN 3-7822-0618-5 .
- Otto J. Seiler: Trip to Australia . ES Mittler & Sohn, Herford 1988, ISBN 3-8132-0270-4 .