Tabora (ship)
Tabora 
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| Launch : | April 18, 1912 | |
| Commissioning: | June 29, 1912 | |
| Builder : |
Blohm & Voss , Hamburg , building no. 211 |
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| Passengers : | 316 | |
| Crew : | ~ 170 men | |
| Sister ships : | General , Kigoma | |
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| Measurement : | 7,383 GRT | |
| Load capacity : | 8,022 dwt | |
| Length over all : | 136.55 m | |
| Width : | 16.46 m | |
| Draft : | 7.83 m | |
| Machinery: | Triple expansion steam engines | |
| Number of screws : | 2 | |
| Power: | 4,800 PSi | |
| Top speed: | 13.5 kn | |
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The Tabora was a imperial mail steamer on the German East Africa Line .
history
Launched on April 18, 1912, the Tabora , a cargo and passenger ship for 316 passengers (116 I, 112 II, 88 III class), was delivered on June 29, 1912 and then to the so-called All-Around-Africa Service used. On July 31, 1914, she arrived from Zanzibar in Dar es Salaam in the German colony of German East Africa , shortly before the outbreak of the First World War .
A war effort was out of the question because of the conspicuous silhouette and the small and poor coal stocks and inadequate weaponry. She was prepared as an auxiliary hospital ship.
In February 1916, their loading gear was used to help dismantle the Adjutant tender , which was to be dismantled and transported to Lake Tanganyika by train . The British became aware of these activities. On March 23, 1916, the ship of the line HMS Vengeance and the cruiser HMS Challenger sank the Tabora by gunfire .
The capsized wreck was only removed from the port in 1955 .
literature
- Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping. Volume 4: Destruction and rebirth 1914 to 1930. Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1986, ( publications of the German Maritime Museum 21).
- Christine Reinke-Kunze: History of the Reichs-Post-Steamers. Connection between the continents 1886–1914. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1994
- Hans Georg Prager: Blohm + Voss - Ships and Machines for the World , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1977
- Claus Rothe: German ocean passenger ships. 1896 to 1918 . Steiger Verlag, Moers 1986
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Schnee : German East Africa in World Wars , Verlag Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, page 199.