Targis (ship)
 The Targis
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The Targis, which was commissioned by the Roland Line in 1925, was a cargo ship built by Frerichs during World War I. Launched as Wolfram on March 15, 1915 , it was the largest ship ever completed for the Hamburg-Bremen Africa Line , although it was never used by the shipping company because of the war . After its delivery in 1919, it was launched under the British flag. In 1920 the ship was bought by the David Steamship Company and passed on to the Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaart Maatschappij . When the Rijperkerk was in motion, it sank off Bastia in November 1923 after a fire.
The Roland-Linie acquired the ship from the insurers and put it into service as Targis on September 4, 1925 . With the incorporation of the line, the ship came to Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) in early 1926 .
On July 18, 1930, the ship caught fire again on its return voyage from Chile to Germany and sank in the Atlantic to 33 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ N , 50 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ W .
History of the ship
On March 15, 1915, the new building 268 was launched as Wolfram for the Hamburg-Bremen Africa Line (HBAL) at the J. Frerichs & Co shipyard in Einswarden . The 130.7 m long and 16.7 m wide new building received a quadruple expansion engine with 3200 hp, which enabled a service speed of 11.5 knots .
The ship was thus largely similar to the Cameroon (5861 BRT, BNr. 267) of the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (Hapag), which was completed on April 1, 1914, and which has operated the German joint service to West Africa with the Woermann Line and the HBAL since 1908 served. Hapag bought this ship, which was already under construction, in 1913. It fell into the hands of the British in Douala in 1914 as the largest and most modern German ship, and from 1915 it was used as the Cameronian . In 1917 the ship was sunk in the Mediterranean by a German submarine.
The tungsten was with their 5887 BRT the largest ever completed for HBAL new building, which until then with the Answald and Winfried had only received two ships of over 5,000 tons. However, because of the war , the Wolfram was never used for the company, as it was launched after its completion until the end of the war and then had to be delivered to the victorious powers according to the surrender conditions.
She was the third ship built by the shipping company at the Frerichswerft after Winfried (1911, 5355 BRT, BNr. 204) and Wigbert (1912, 3367 BRT, BNr. 251). This shipyard delivered all nine newbuildings of the shipping company from 1920 after the end of the war. The Ingo (1926, 3950 BRT, BNr. 396), the last and largest post-war new building, only came into service with the NDL after the shipping company was integrated.
Under foreign flags
On March 27, 1919, the Wolfram was delivered to Great Britain and used by the P. Henderson & Co. shipping company in Glasgow , which specialized in traffic to Burma . In 1920 the ship was sold by the Shipping Controller to the David Steamship Company in London, which used it under the new name Netley Abbey . This British company was founded by the Dutch shipping companies Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaart Maatschappij (VNSM) and Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij (KNSM) in order to be able to participate in the purchase of delivered German tonnage. She acquired 17 formerly German ships, which were then passed on to Dutch shipping companies with the approval of the British government.
The Netley Abbey came in 1921 in the possession of the VNSM over and was in Rijperkerk renamed. The Dutch shipping company was founded by a large number of Dutch shipping companies, which was intended to attract in particular the Africa traffic of the German lines. In 1921/1922 she took over fifteen formerly German cargo ships between 5137 and 8864 GRT.
On November 17, 1923, the cargo of the Rijperkerk caught fire on a return voyage from East Africa to Amsterdam in the Mediterranean and the ship was towed to Bastia , where the French navy set it aground to smother the fire. The Dutch shipping company left the wreck to the insurance companies, which had it lifted in February 1924 and carried out the repairs in order to sell the ship. The sealed wreck that was towed to Geestemünde was prepared for further use at the Tecklenborg shipyard in 1925 in order to find a German buyer.
Again under the German flag
On September 3, 1925, the Bremen Roland-Linie put the former Wolfram into service as Targis . The ship was now used as part of the "German West Coast Service" from Bremen (or Hamburg) to Chile . Most of the departures were made through the Panama Canal to the South American west coast. At the end of the year, Norddeutsche Lloyd completely incorporated the line that was dependent on it into the major shipping company. However, the ships continued to operate under the old shipping company flag as part of the West Coast Service. The Targis also continued to serve on the west coast, although the HBAL had also been incorporated in a similar way and there was basically a change in shipping areas.
The end of the Targis
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On July 18, 1930, the Targis caught fire on its way back from Chile to Germany near the Azores as a result of the spontaneous combustion of the saltpeter cargo. Immediately after the first explosions on board, the radio operator sent the SOS, which was operated by several ships, u. a. the motor ship Rangitata (1929, 16,737 GRT), the steamer Certalis and the Santa Aurora . When the fire spread to the bridge and radio station, the radio operator and the ship's command left the burning ship. The crew and passengers of the Targis could be taken over by the Rangitata, who had rushed up in the meantime, without any loss of life.
The Frerichswerft Africa ships
| Surname | Construction no. | GRT | length | Launched in service |
further fate |
| Winfried | # 204 | 5355 | 124.5 | 12/17/1910 04/1911 |
HBAL 1914/15 torpedo boat repair ship in Cuxhaven , delivered in 1919: Siam City Cardiff , scrapped to Yugoslavia in 1927, August 1958 |
| Wigbert | No. 251 | 3367 | 104.5 | 02/21/1912 04/25/1912 |
HBAL, 1914 at home, delivered in 1919, not used, in 1921 repurchased by HBAL, renamed Walburg , from 1922 then Henner , sold to the Soviet Union in 1932: Okhotsk , scrapped in 1960 |
| Cameroon | No. 267 | 5861 | 130.0 | December 11, 1913 April 1, 1914 |
Hapag, aground in Duala in 1914, lifted and repaired by the British in 1915 when deployed as a Cameronian , torpedoed and sunk by UC 34 northwest of Alexandria on June 2, 1917 |
| tungsten | No. 268 | 5887 | 130.7 | 03/15/1915 01/1917 |
(HBAL) Launched in 1917, delivered in 1919, purchase of the Targis Roland line in 1925 , in 1930 on fire and sunk |
| according to WK I | all ordered from HBAL | ||||
| Winfried (2) | No. 300 | 3751 | 110.5 | 06.1920 30.10.1920 |
1926 NDL, 1935 to Deutsche Levante Line : Yalova , torpedoed and sunk on October 3, 1941 off Greece by the British submarine Tetrarch |
| Wigbert (2) | No. 301 | 3648 | 110.5 | 12/29/1920 04/23/1921 |
1926 NDL, 1934 to Deutsche Afrika Linien (DAL), torpedoed and sunk on April 10, 1940 off Norway by the British submarine Triton |
| Tungsten (2) | No. 302 | 3648 | 110.5 | 06.1921 08/20/1921 |
1926 NDL, 1934 to DAL, torpedoed and sunk off Vlieland on February 10, 1942 |
| Arnfried (2) | No. 315 | 2332 | 90.3 | 10.1921 02.1922 |
1926 NDL, 1932 to the Soviet Union: Ladoga , scrapped in 1959 |
| Irmgard (3) | # 316 | 2328 | 90.3 | 02.1922 05.1922 |
1926 NDL, 1932 to the Soviet Union: Luga , 1959 scrapped |
| Friderun (2) | No. 317 | 2327 | 90.3 | 06.1922 09.10.1922 |
1926 NDL, 1927 new aircraft, 1932 passenger facility , confiscated in Menado in 1940 : Meroendong , sunk as a block ship in 1942 |
| Ivo (3) | No. 318 | 2329 | 90.3 | 15.11.1922 21.12.1922 |
1926 NDL, 1932 to the Soviet Union: Svir , scrapped in 1959 |
| Real estate (3) | No. 319 | 2329 | 90.3 | 02.1923 04.10.1923 |
1926 NDL, 1932 to the Soviet Union: Volkovd , 1959 scrapped |
| Ingo (3) | No. 396 | 3950 | 116.6 | 02.1926 May 9, 1926 |
1926 NDL, 1934 DAL, torpedoed and sunk by British Fairey Swordfish on January 27, 1941 off Libya |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Kludas: Seeschiffe NDL. P. 38.
- ↑ Kludas: Ships of the Africa Lines. P. 80.
- ↑ Kludas: Africa Lines. Pp. 119-130.
- ↑ a b c Kludas: Africa Lines. P. 126.
- ↑ Kludas: Ships of the Africa Lines. P. 123.
- ↑ Kludas: Ships of the Africa Lines. P. 125.
- ↑ Kludas: Ships of the Africa Lines. Pp. 126-130.
- ↑ Blog about the fire on the Rijperkerk
- ↑ Telefunken Newspaper No. 55 / October 1930
- ^ Kludas, Afrika-Linien, p. 123.
- ↑ Kludas, Afrika-Linien, p. 125.
- ↑ Kludas, Afrika-Linien, p. 80.
- ↑ a b Kludas: Africa Lines. P. 127.
- ↑ a b Kludas: Africa Lines. P. 128.
- ↑ a b c Kludas: Africa Lines. P. 129.
- ↑ Kludas: Africa Lines. P. 130.
Web links
- Page on the history of the shipping companies Deutsche Afrika-Linien, John T. Essberger, u. a. as well as the trading house C. Woermann under construction
- Passenger lists from Bremen for five departures 1926-30
- Fall of the Targis
- Fennel: T he German shipping companies. P. 116 HBAL
- Fennel, p. 99 Roland
- Fennel, p. 116f, Frerichswerft
- Information on the rangitata
literature
- Arnold Kludas : The ships of the German Africa Lines 1880 to 1945 . Verlag Gerhard Stalling, 1975, ISBN 3-7979-1867-4 .
- Arnold Kludas: The ships of the North German Lloydt. 1920 to 1970, Vol. 2, Koehler Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1992, ISBN 3-7822-0534-0 .
- Reinhart Schmelzkopf: The German Merchant Shipping 1919–1939. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg, ISBN 3-7979-1847-X .