Trampko multi-purpose freighters
| Trampko multi-purpose freighters | |
|---|---|
| Technical data (overview) | |
| Conception: | Hamburg tramp shipping company (Trampko) |
| Measurement: | approx. 4950/5330 GRT |
| Load capacity: | approx. 7400/8100 t |
| Length: | 116.60 / 126.50 m |
| Width: | 17.20 m |
| Side height: | 9.90 m |
| Draft: | 7.50 m |
| Drive: | 1 × diesel engine |
| Total output: | approx. 3000-4000 kW |
| Speed: | approx. 15 knots |
The Trampko multi-purpose freighter is a Liberty replacement ship type that was launched by the Orenstein & Koppel shipyards in Lübeck and the Schlichting shipyard in Travemünde at the end of the 1960s as a replacement for the then aging fleet of tramp ships built during the war and shortly afterwards . The name of this successful type is derived from the Hamburg tramp shipping company Trampko , which designed the ships. The ships had three hatches. Ten cargo booms and a heavy lift boom of 60 or 80 tons were available as their own loading gear.
history
In the mid-1960s, around 700 of the Liberty and Victory standard freighters, as well as a few other cargo ships built during World War II, were still in service in the then world merchant fleet. Even the youngest of them were now 20 years or older, and so both the shipping companies and the shipyards were faced with the question of replacing these ships, which would soon reach the end of their service life. At the same time, the need for replacement of the smaller post-war buildings in tramp shipping was already foreseeable.
The great upheavals in maritime shipping, caused by the appearance of container ships and bulk carriers , which would later almost completely replace the general cargo ships , were not foreseeable as such at this point in time, so that the classic general cargo ship , which was in its form at the time since the turn of the century, was relatively few changes was built, still appeared up to date. It was therefore only logical that the Hamburg tramp shipping company oriented its concept, as did many shipyards with the successful type ships SD-14 , German Liberty , Seebeck 36L , Freedom and Fortune , to general cargo ships with their own loading gear . This conservative design was undoubtedly also due to the fact that most of the ships to be replaced at that time were operated on the one hand by rather small shipping companies with limited resources and on the other hand predominantly on trampoline.
The focus of the concept of the Hamburg tramp shipping company was both on the formation of pools with similar, inexpensive ships, with which they could act like a large shipping company to the charterers and other parties involved in ship operations, as well as the joint advertising, training and other broader collaboration.
The first Trampkos were Hinrich Witt in September 1969 from O & K and Nordwelle in October of the same year from Schlichting shipyard. Orenstein & Koppel built 17 ships of this type up to the Krusau in November 1978. At Schlichting , up to the last building, also in 1978, the Ibn Sina II , 10 small and 6 Trampkos of the extended version were launched.
Despite their now considerable age, some of these series ships are still in service today.
swell
- Reports in the Hamburger Abendblatt from July 17, 1971, January 20, 1973, August 14, 1974, December 17, 1977 and August 25, 1978
- Detlefsen, Gert Uwe; Abert, Hans Jürgen: The history and fate of German series freighters . Volume 1 - The development, German series after 1945 The fate of the Hansa-A-Freighter. Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen, Bad Zwischenahn 1998, ISBN 3-928473-41-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz/ship/show/369473 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz/ship/show/373800 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz/ship/show/70714 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz/ship/show/66160 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
