The series was ordered on September 15, 1965. The design and construction of the ship type was carried out in cooperation with the Hamburg shipyards involved. Blohm + Voss took over the construction of the steel shipbuilding and the associated towing tests, the Hamburger Howaldtswerke were responsible for the mechanical engineering and the German shipyard carried out the construction of the equipment. The total construction costs of the ten ships at the time were around 150 million Deutschmarks. It was thus both the largest order ever awarded in the history of Hamburg shipbuilding and the largest overall order from a Hamburg shipping company. The ship class comprised ten ships, all of which were delivered in 1967. In addition to the two ships from Blohm + Voss and the Deutsche Werft, three ships came from the Hamburg Howaldtswerke and three more from the Emden Nordseewerke. The order originally also included options for one more ship from Blohm + Voss and one from Deutsche Werft, but these were not honored.
The Frankfurt loading heavy goods
As part of a supply agreement, British companies contributed supplies worth around 20 million D-Marks, such as the auxiliary diesel engines from Ruston & Hornsby . The ships were used by Hapag in the West India service.
In the 1970 merger between Hapag and Lloyd, the ships were transferred to Hapag-Lloyd's portfolio and continued to be operated there for several years in the traditional trading area. In 1978/79 the shipping company initially sold seven ships, the remaining three ships left the Hapag-Lloyd fleet in 1982/83. In the hands of later owners, the first two ships arrived for scrapping in 1986, but most of them were operated until the second half of the 1990s and finally sold for demolition. The two ships Corain I (ex Hanau ) and Corain II (ex Heidelberg ) of Lineas Agromar from Colombia were initially laid up in 1997 and only scrapped in 2001.
technology
The Speyer , one of the ships with a 60 ton heavy lift boom
A feature, in addition to the powerful drive system, was the versatile loading equipment. The ships were equipped with 18 conventional loading booms (14 × 10 tons and 4 × 5 tons) and a 3-ton mast crane. To increase the handling speed, the hanger and loader runners, as well as the preventer and intermediate hoists, were operated by winches. In addition, all ships were equipped with a heavy lift boom for taking over heavy lifts. The Howaldtswerke buildings in Hanover and Frankfurt had a 120-tonne piece of heavy lift gear that could operate hatches 2 and 3, the remaining ships had 60-ton heavy lift booms of conventional design for hatch 2. In front of the superstructures, which were moved far aft there were four dry cargo holds, the two or three intermediate decks of which were each closed with hydraulic smooth deck hatch covers. The main hatch covers were built according to the McGregor single pull patent. Behind cargo hold 4, under the front edge of the deckhouse, there were four insulated cold rooms over two decks for around 300 m³ of refrigerated cargo. Behind the superstructures was the two-deck hold number 5. Additional cargo facilities were the three cargo tanks for about 300 m³ of oil cargo, which were arranged in the bow area under dry hold 1 and in the aft area under hold 5 next to the shaft tunnel . A 28 m³ lock loading space was available for locking cargo. The ships were equipped with a bulbous bow .
The ships
Building name
shipyard
Build number
IMO number
delivery
Renaming and whereabouts
Hanover
Howaldtswerke
968
6706163
April 14, 1967
1982 Constellation Faros → 1985 Milos IX → demolished on March 29, 1986 in Gadani Beach
trier
Blohm + Voss
851
6711431
May 9, 1967
1978 Tong Jiang → 1990 Skylark → 1992 Sapphire Star → Reported as scrapped in 1996
Hanau
North Sea Works
385
6710750
June 29, 1967
1979 Corain I → launched in 1997 → reported as scrapped in 2001
Hamburg
Howaldtswerke
997
6712382
July 31, 1967
1978 Tai Hang Shan → Reported as scrapped in 1996
Speyer
Blohm + Voss
852
6713893
15th August 1967
1978 Pu Jiang → 1991 Seagull → 1992 Emerald Star → deleted from register in 1994
Heidelberg
German shipyard
821
6715322
5th September 1967
August 23, 1976 structures burned out after a short circuit → 1983 Su Feng → demolition from February 20, 1997 in Xinhui
Hagen
North Sea Works
386
6723812
October 12, 1967
1978 Huang Long Shan → demolition from August 4, 1996 in Calcutta
Frankfurt
Howaldtswerke
998
6723953
October 26, 1967
1980 Goslar → 1982 Constellation Galaxy → 1986 Milos X → demolition from April 10, 1986 in Gadani Beach
Heilbronn
German shipyard
822
6723824
December 19, 1967
1979 Corain II → launched in 1997 → reported as scrapped in 2001
Hattingen
North Sea Works
387
6729907
December 28, 1967
1978 Miao Feng Shan → 1996 Miao Feng → demolition from November 24, 1996 in Alang
literature
Witthöft, Hans Jürgen: HAPAG . Hamburg-America Line. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 1973, ISBN 3-7822-0087-X .
Witthohn, Ralf: The new German merchant fleet . Freighters, tankers and containers. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1976, ISBN 3-7979-1870-4 .
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 .
Individual evidence
↑ Today Hapag orders 10 liner freighters from Hamburg shipyards, total value 150 million DM in the Hamburger Abendblatt of September 15, 1965
^ The German merchant fleet 1970/71 . Seehafen-Verlag Erik Blumenfeld, Hamburg 1970, p.353 .
