Tsingtau shipyard
The Tsingtau shipyard was founded in Tsingtau (today Qingdao ) in 1911 and built smaller ships for the needs of the German colonies of Kiautschou and German New Guinea .
Colony and harbor
The German protected area Kiautschou was founded in 1897 to provide a supply base in the Far East for the Imperial Navy . The area was from Imperial China to the German Empire leased and was located in the south of Shandong Peninsula in China's east coast. It was seen as a prerequisite for the planned trade with China.
The port city of Tsingtau was the capital of the colony. Around 190 ships with 226,000 tons of cargo were z. B. transshipped in 1899, in 1911 there were around 600 ships with 1.25 million tons of cargo and Kiautschou took 7th place among the Chinese ports.
shipyard
The main field of activity of the shipyard was ship repair. A separate floating dock was kept for this purpose. But new ships were also built. So eight ships up to 200 tons were built at the Tsingtau shipyard, including the icebreaker Rynda , the DF boats Peilboot III and Peilboot IV , the government yacht Nusa and also tug boats for the Imperial Navy . In addition, the shipyard also served as a boiler and mechanical engineering company, iron and steel construction, as well as a foundry and nickel-plating company.
Postal connection
Reichspostdampfer in the East Asian service of the general class of the North German Lloyd connected Germany with Shanghai, from here the postal service to Tsingtau was carried out by the shipping company M. Jebsen fortnightly and from 1898 weekly. Overall, the passenger or the post from Hamburg or Bremerhaven to Tsingtau was on the way for 50 to 60 days.