Tomondo

Tomondo

The Tomondo alongside Kaiser Wilhelm II (1908).

Ship data flag  German Empire Ship type Stern wheel steamer Shipyard Josef L. Meyer , Papenburg Build number 232 Keel laying 1908 Whereabouts Sunk on October 9, 1916.

Ship dimensions and crew length 24.75 m ( Lüa ) width 5.00 m Draft Max. 0.32 m measurement 27 GRT

Machine system machine Steam engine Machine performance 155 PS (114 kW) Top speed 5.29 kn (10 km / h) propeller none, two rear wheels

The Tomondo was a stern paddle steamer in the imperial governorate of German East Africa .

history

The ship was built in 1908 with hull number 232 at the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg for use on the Rufiji in German East Africa. As a flattening ship, the Tomondo could sail up the river beyond the Rufiji Delta. The shallow depth of the fairway limited the Tomondo's loading capacity , so that lighters were towed behind the ship to carry additional cargo. The maximum speed of the stern wheel steamer with the current could reach 5.29 knots and against the current 2.45 knots.

After the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, the Tomondo was used from September 1914 to supply the cruiser Königsberg lying in the Rufiji .

On October 9, 1916, the Tomondo was scuttled in Rufiji so as not to fall into the hands of the British troops advancing into the colony.

literature

• Erich Gröner: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 7, Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1990, p. 220 f.
• Wilhelm Methner : Oceanography - The ports of German East Africa. Issue 170, Volume XV, ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1927, p. 13 f.