Type Dresden (ship type)
 Hapag cargo ship Dresden in front of Vancouver
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The as type "Dresden" designated vessel type is a series of two cargo ships of the Hamburg-America Line (HAPAG). The ship class followed on from the East Asia service of the shipping company, which was maintained before the Second World War .
history
construction
After the extensive loosening of the shipbuilding restrictions of the Potsdam Agreement , HAPAG rebuilt its cargo ship fleet from 1950 onwards. Starting with the first post-war new building in Hamburg , the HAPAG fleet continued to grow again. In 1957, HAPAG ordered two motor ships of the same type from AG Weser for service to Australia and the Far East. On December 8, 1957, the shipping company was able to take over the type ship Dresden from the shipyard. Half a year later, on July 30, 1958, Munich completed the series. Until the delivery of the Elbe Express class , the Dresden and Munich were HAPAG's largest cargo ships for around a decade.
Use at HAPAG
As planned, the ship duo was initially used in the East Asia service. The "München" [DAGY] sailed at least in 1967 (the first voyage from late March to early August) as a training ship with 20 cadets and then probably another voyage to Australia. Both ships became the new Hapag in 1970 when HAPAG merged with NDL -Lloyd taken over.
Later career
At the end of 1970, Hapag-Lloyd passed the two sister ships on to Rickmers-Linie , which they continued to employ in the liner service to China as Sophie Rickmers and Etha Rickmers until the mid-1980s . In the first half of the 1970s, they were the only German ships to offer 14 direct connections between Hamburg and China. Both ships were canceled in Shanghai in 1986.
technology
The ships of the series were conventional general cargo ships with superstructures just aft amidships above the propulsion system and versatile loading facilities. The ships were with 26 conventional loading booms (2 à 3 tons, 14 à 3/5 tons and 10 à 5/10 tons) as well as a 30 ton heavy lift boom and a 60 ton heavy lift boom for taking over heavy lift into hatch 4 and 5 equipped. There were four dry cargo holds in front of the superstructure and three behind the superstructure, each with two or three intermediate decks. The hatches were closed with MacGregor hatch covers. In addition, the ships of the “Dresden” type had refrigerated holds, lock holds and sweet oil tanks.
The ship's propulsion system consisted of a single-acting Burmeister & Wain two-stroke diesel engine of the type 10 74-VTBF-160 with supercharging, which was manufactured under license by Krupp .
The only difference between the otherwise identical units was the significantly higher chimney of the Munich .
The ships
| The freighter motor ships of the "Dresden" type | |||||
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| Surname | Launch | delivery | Build number | measurement | Renaming and whereabouts |
| Dresden | September 26, 1957 | 17th December 1957 | 1321 | 12,489 GRT | 1970 Sophie Rickmers , demolished on November 3, 1986 in Shanghai |
| Munich | April 14, 1958 | July 30, 1958 | 827 | 12,500 GRT | 1970 Etha Rickmers , demolished on July 14, 1986 in Shanghai |
literature
- H. Dörgeloh, H. Kurz, F. Kabitz, KW Grützemacher: Freight motor ship "Dresden" . In: Hansa . Vol. 95, No. 14/15 , April 1958, pp. 677-693 .
- Witthöft, Hans Jürgen: HAPAG . Hamburg-America Line. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 1973, ISBN 3-7822-0087-X .
- Haws, Duncan: Merchant Fleets in Profile 4 . The ships of the Hamburg America, Adler and Carr lines. Patrick Stephens, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-85059-397-2 .
- Krüger-Kopiske, Karsten Kunibert: The ships of Hapag-Lloyd . Drawings and CVs. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7822-0861-7 .