Type Algérien

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Type Algérien p1
Ship data
Ship type General cargo and partially refrigerated ship
Shipping company Sociéte Anonyme de Gérance et d'Armement (SAGA), Paris
Compagnie des Bateaux à Vapeur du Nord (CBVN), Dunkirk
draft SAGA-CVBN
Shipyard Tampa Shipbuilding Company, Tampa Bay
Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Nantes
Arsenal de Lorient, Lorient
Construction period 1947 to 1953
Units built 14th
Ship dimensions and crew
length
113.35 m ( Lüa )
width 16.53 m
Draft Max. 5.72 m
measurement 3431 GRT
Machine system
machine 6 × Nordberg FSM-166-SC six-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine
Machine
performance 		7,200 PS (5,296 kW)
Top
speed 		17.0 kn (31 km / h)
propeller 2 × fixed propellers
Machinery from 1950 (Nantes and Lorient)
machine 6 × MAN G6V55 six-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine
Machine
performance 		6,360 PS (4,678 kW)
Top
speed 		16.5 kn (31 km / h)
propeller 2 × fixed propellers
Transport capacities
Load capacity 4719 dw
Permitted number of passengers 8/11

As type Algérien designated ship class is a series of fourteen cargo ships of the French shipping group SAGA CBVN. The ships, also known as “les six-moteurs” ( German : the six- motor vehicles ) due to their idiosyncratic engine system, were linked to the shipping company's Africa service that was maintained before the Second World War .

history

The 14 ships of the Algérien type were ordered at the end of the 1940s. Due to the post-war shortage of shipyard construction sites, the ships were built in three shipyards. The first six units were built from 1947 at the US shipyard Tampa Shipbuilding Company in Tampa Bay , Florida. In 1950/51 another two units were built by the French shipyard Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire in Nantes and six by Arsenal de Lorient in Lorient .

The ships were initially sold to the shipping companies Sociéte Anonyme de Gérance et d'Armement (SAGA) from Paris , Compagnie des Bateaux à Vapeur du Nord (CBVN) from Dunkirk (the latter had been owned by SAGA since 1927) and the Compagnie Navale Afrique du Nord from Le Havre on lines to North Africa and to the English Channel and North Sea ports . The cargo of the units equipped as general cargo and partially refrigerated ships consisted of general cargo of all kinds as well as fruit and vegetables, and some of the ships also consisted of liquid cargoes such as wine.

In 1955, the two ships Saint Jacques (ex Algérien ) and Saint Paul were sold to the shipping company Compagnie de Navigation Denis Frères, which operated the two ships in the West Africa joint service with the shipping company Société Navale de l'Ouest.

In the years 1957 to 1962 six ships, the Saint Jacques (ex Algérien ), Saint Paul , Brestois , Dunkerquois , Saint Thomas (ex Tourquennois ), Saint Paul (ex Cambraisien ) and the Saint André (ex Douaisien ) were lengthened by 15 meters to use them in the West African service. The length increased to 128.35 meters above all and 120.77 meters between the perpendiculars, the draft was 5.76 meters after the conversion. The carrying capacity of the extended ships was around 8,000 tons. The two ships, Oranie and Tunisie , managed by the Compagnie Navale Afrique du Nord , were also extended in 1958, but only by seven meters.

In later years SAGA-CBVN sold the ships to several shipping companies. They stayed in service for several years after several sales and were then canceled in the 1970s and 1980s.

The ships

Surname Launching / delivery Shipyard Whereabouts
Algeria - / 12. May 1947 Tampa Ship 1955 Saint Jacques , extended by 15 meters in 1961, 1970 Captain Pavlov , stranded off Nigeria on November 29, 1976, demolished in 1977
Amiénois - / 1947 Tampa Ship
Artésia - / 1947 Tampa Ship
Rouennais - / 1947 Tampa Ship 1957 Saint Jean
Saint-Pierre - / 1947 Tampa Ship
Saint-Paul - / 1947 Tampa Ship
Cambraisien - / 30. July 1950 Arsenal de Lorient 1962 extended by 15 m Saint Pierre , November 1969 Argoland , 1973 Alexis , 1977 demolition
Douaisien - / 1950 Arsenal de Lorient
Brestois - / 1950 Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire 1961 Saint Philippe
Dunkerquois May 26, 1949/1950 Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire 1960 in Port de Bouc extended by 15 meters, December 1963 Saint Bernard , May 1970 Argostar , 1973 conversion to the Barge Ile d'Ouessant , converted to the crane ship Cormorant in Marseille in 1986
Lillois - / 1950 Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire
Tourquennois - / 1953 Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire 1955 Saint Thomas , extended by 15 meters in 1958, 1970 Argowave , 1973 Seaford , August 1975 demolished in Guixar, Spain
Orange - / - Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire 1968 at Cie. Nantaise de réparations Navales extended by 7 meters
Tunisie - / 4. May 1951 Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire 1968 at Cie. Nantaise de réparations Navales extended by 7 meters, Platon in 1972 , Capricorn in 1977

literature

  • Cargo ship with six propulsion engines . In: Hansa No. 9 . Schiffahrts-Verlag "Hansa" C. Schroedter & Co., Hamburg 1951, p. 373 .
  • Jean-François Durand: Les Cargos 6 moteurs . In: Marines Guerre & Commerce N ° 20 July / August 1992 . Marine Edition et Réalisations, Dagneux 1992.