Tannenfels (ship, 1898)
 The Waganda ex Tannenfels
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The Tannenfels, which was put into service in 1898 by the German Steamship Company "Hansa" (DDG "Hansa"), was to serve as a coal supplier for warships of the Imperial Navy during the First World War . She did not succeed in supplying the small cruiser SMS Emden before marching into the Indian Ocean . The Tannenfels was finally brought up by a British destroyer and then used as a transport on the Entente side.
In 1921, the Woermann Line bought the former Tannenfels and used it as Waganda in freight service to Africa. The ship, which was laid up from the end of 1930 , was canceled in Hamburg from mid-1933.
History of the ship
The Tannenfels belonged to the first series of five freighters of the DDG "Hansa" for the service to the East Indies (see second Ehrenfels ). Freighters of this size were the main part of the Bremen freight shipping company until 1914 . Of the first five newbuildings of this size, four were built at the Wigham Richardson & Co. shipyard in Newcastle-on-Tyne . Only the Bärenfels was supplied by the Flensburg shipbuilding company .
The ordered in Newcastle Tannenfels ran on 23 March 1898 and the hull number 336, stack and was delivered on April 9 as the third ship of the series to the DDG "Hansa". She was 127.2 m long, 16.45 m wide and had a draft of 7.7 m. The ship was measured with 5462 GRT and could carry up to 8280 tdw. It was driven by a 4-cylinder quadruple expansion steam engine from the shipyard, which delivered 2200 PSi on one screw and enabled a speed of 11 knots .
The Tannenfels was used on the shipping company's liner services to the Middle East.
Fate of war
The Tannenfels , which arrived in Singapore with a load of coal in July 1914 , was able to leave the British colony shortly before the start of the First World War . She was supposed to go to Timor and then hand over her coal load to units of the German East Asia Squadron at a pre-planned meeting point at sea . In fact, the ship did not get there because the Dutch neutrality controls repeatedly forced it to leave the coastal waters of the Dutch East Indies .
The Emden therefore waited with its supplier Markomannia on the 24th / 25th. August 1914 in vain on the Tannenfels on the east coast of Timor. After the Emden encountered the Dutch coastal armored ship Marten Harpertszoon Tromp on August 27, the commander of the cruiser, knowing the interpretation of the rules of neutrality by the Dutch navy, decided to go into the Indian Ocean and take care of it, in addition to the Markomannia , to ensure by prey ships.
The Tannenfels entered Batavia on August 30, 1914 , but left the port on September 1 to continue to be available to the cruiser squadron under Vice-Admiral Graf Spee . At this point the Emden was already in the Indian Ocean and the rest of the squadron was on its way to the South Seas and South America. On September 14, 1914 was Tannenfels looking for German units in the Strait of Basilan between Mindanao and the island of Basilan by British torpedo boat destroyer HMS Chelmer applied and then to Hong Kong escorted, where she was declared the beginning of October to pinch and Basilian was renamed .
In 1916 the ship was given a new name with the Hunslet , which, like many prey ships, began with Hun ( Hunnendampfer ) and thus contained a derogatory term for the Germans. The British authorities had the ship managed by the White Star Line . In 1917, the management of the prize was Union Castle Mail Steamship Co. transferred.
Again under the German flag
The former Tannenfels was bought by Woermann-Linie in Hamburg for freight service to South Africa in September 1921 . On May 15, 1922, the ship began its first voyage for the Woermann Line and the German East Africa Line to Africa under its new name Waganda . It now also had cabins for twelve passengers. In addition to the Waganda , the new Urundi (5791 BRT, 1920) and the Muansa (5408 BRT, 1911), which was bought back from the African lines at the same time , were used in freight service . Between 1923 and 1927, the freighter fleet was further strengthened through the purchase of further pre-war ships or post-war newbuildings from other German shipping companies.
On December 23, 1930 the Waganda was launched in Hamburg and then sold to the Deutsche Werft for demolition on December 21, 1932 . Demolition began in June 1933.
Cargo ships of the African lines 1920 to 1928
| purchase | Surname | Shipyard | GRT tdw |
Launched in service |
further fate |
| Urundi (1) |
Blohm & Voss building no. 385 |
5791 9500 |
27.07.1920 02.11.1920 |
DOAL, maiden voyage to North America in 1920, then service to Africa, 1940 transporter, 1945 involved in the evacuation of the eastern territories, 1945 to 1949 under British and Greek flags, scrapped as Valparaiso registered in Panama | |
| 09/27/1921 | Muansa |
Bremer Vulkan BauNr. 549 |
5408 8960 |
30.06.1911 08.10.1911 |
DOAL, formally delivered / buy-back, 1940 Transporter of the Kriegsmarine, sunk in 1943 |
| 09.1921 | Waganda | Wigham Richardson building no. 336 |
5462 5280 |
03/23/1898 04/1898 |
ex Tannenfels / DDG Hansa, in service in 1922, used by WL and DOAL, sold for demolition at the end of 1932, |
| 182.07.1923 | Ulanga |
AG Weser Building No. 204 |
5537 9330 |
16.09.1914 21.10.1915 |
ex Santa Clara / Hamburg-Süd , delivered in 1919, bought as Den of Airlie for DOAL, on January 5, 1931 on the way home, caught fire and completely burned out |
| 03/20/1925 | Wagogo |
AG Neptun building no. |
3118 5560 |
September 6, 1914 October 21, 1915 |
ex Sofia / Deutsche Levante-Linie , delivered in 1919, purchased for WL in 1925, in Lobito in 1939 , sold to Portugal in 1943, Turkey, demolished in 1961 |
| 06/06/1925 | Waregga | Bremer Vulkan BauNr. 496 |
4579 6000 |
25.02.1907 03.31.1907 |
ex Max Brock / WL, applied in Duala in 1914, bought back and renamed in 1923, published in July 1932, sold for demolition in December 1932 |
| 06/18/1925 | Rufidji | German shipyard BauNr. 4th |
1387 .. |
05/12/1921 08/16/1921 |
ex Andalusia / Hapag, Levantedienst, 1925 purchase for African coastal service, 1939 Beira, 1943 to Portugal, 1964 sunk under the Lebanese flag as Vlassios |
| 06/15/1926 | Wakama |
Nordseewerke Emden building no. 115 |
3771 6560 |
09/17/1921 01/1922 |
ex Odin / shipping company "Frigga", tramping, 1926 purchase, West Africa service, September 1939 Rio de Janeiro, set sail for Germany on February 1, 1940, placed by HMS Dorsetshire near Cabo Frio on the 13th , scuttled |
| 4.07.1927 | Wameru |
Flensburger SG building no. 352 |
4076 7060 |
12.07.1919 07.30.1920 |
ex Polaria / Hapag, July 1927 purchase as Porthia and renaming, West Africa service, 1939 Lobito, 1943 to Portugal, demolition in 1950 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ This also happened to other German ships like the Hoerde (5265 BRT) of the Hapag or the Offenbach (4336 BRT), Ulm (4708 BRT) and Linden (4188 BRT) of the DADG (Herbert: Kriegsfahrten Deutscher Handelsschiffe , p. 68)
- ↑ Lochner, p. 88
- ↑ 5210 t, 16.5 kn, 2-24 cm, 4-15 cm cannons
- ↑ Lochner, p. 91ff.
- ↑ Kludas: Ships of the Africa Lines , p. 61, p. 69f., P. 86ff.
- ^ Kludas, p. 86.
Web links
literature
- Cornelis Dijk: The Netherlands Indies and the Great War 1914–1918 , KITLV Press, 2007
- Carl Herbert: War voyages of German merchant ships . Broschek & Co, Hamburg 1934.
- Hans H. Hildebrand / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships: Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford,
- Arnold Kludas : The ships of the German Africa Lines 1880 to 1945 . Verlag Gerhard Stalling, 1975, ISBN 3-7979-1867-4 .
- Reinhard Karl Lochner: Die Kaperfahrten of the small cruiser Emden , 1979, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-453-00951-7