Porter type
 Trampko Zip Ship
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The series of ships built in the early 1970s as the Porter type by several Dutch shipyards for the Trampko tramp shipping association were also known as zip ships or zip freighters .
history
In 1970 the Trampko member shipping companies Aug. Bolten Wm. Miller's successor , Fisser & van Doornum , Franz Hagen, and Bernhard Schulte ordered a series of ten small multi-purpose general cargo ships from the umbrella organization Holland Shipbuilding & Engineering Association . Each of these 6,200 tdw ships should cost around eight million guilders. The series was intended for joint use via a freighting pool of the tramp shipping association Trampko , only the shipowner Franz Hagen freighted his ship Otto Porr himself. Due to the tight calculation, the Zaanlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij shipyard in Zaandam, which worked with the northern Portuguese shipyard Estaleiros Navais de Viana do Castelo (ENVC) in Viana do Castelo , had to deliver the third ship in the series, the Elisabeth Fisser , File for bankruptcy. The Van der Giessen de Nord shipyard in Alblasserdam then completed the ship.
With their long hatches with box-shaped hold, the ships were particularly known by their nicknames Zip-Ships or Zip-Freighters. At the beginning of the 1990s, the ships at Estaleiros Navais de Viana do Castelo received new central and foredeck sections and were then classified as pure bulk carriers . The series has proven itself very well in operation. Some of the ships have been in service for their original clients for four decades, an extremely rare phenomenon in cargo shipping.
details
The ships of the series are designed as dry bulk carriers with a deckhouse arranged far aft and three cargo holds . The front and aft cargo areas are each shorter than the long middle cargo area. They are mainly used in the transport of bulk goods, piece goods, small project loads or containers. The container capacity was 230 TEU when it was built. Some ships had a movable crane boom with two loading booms, each with a lifting capacity of 6 tons. The holds of the ships are closed with MacGregor hatch covers.
The ships are powered by a six-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine of the type MaK 6MU551 AK with an output of 3000 hp. The motor acts on the fixed propeller via a gearbox and enables a speed of around 13 knots. Two auxiliary diesels are also available.
The ships (selection)
| Porter type | |||||
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| Building name | Shipyard / construction number | IMO number | delivery | Client | Later names and whereabouts |
| Otto Porr | Arnhemsche / 461 | 7116860 | June 1, 1972 | Franz Hagen, Hamburg | 1977 Negah , 1980 Danae , 1988 Serenity , 1992 new bow and central aisle, 1993 Serenade , from 11 August 2014 Aliağa scrapped |
| Erika Fisser | ENVC / 87 Zaanlandsche / 524 |
7116781 | April 6, 1972 | Fisser & van Doornum, Hamburg | 1979 Ventus , 1985 Cosa , 1990 new bow and central nave, 2013 Abdul M |
| Imela Fisser | ENVC / 88 Zaanlandsche / 525 |
7129336 | June 26, 1972 | Fisser & van Doornum, Hamburg | 1973 Boca Tabla , 1982 Tabla , 1986 Okapi , 1990 new bow and central nave, 2013 Brave Knight |
| Elisabeth Fisser | ENVC / 89 Zaanlandsche / V. d. Giessen / 526 |
7203895 | 1st December 1972 | Fisser & van Doornum, Hamburg | 1979 Villiers , 1986 Pyrgos , 1991 new fore and middle aisle, 2013 Farah |
| Esther Bolten | V. d. 885 | 7116793 | April 13, 1972 | Aug. Bolten, Hamburg | 1974 Esther , 1990 Apollo Hawk , 2010 FGM Survival , 2013 La Joie |
| Alice Bolten | V. d. 886 | 7126102 | June 14, 1972 | Aug. Bolten, Hamburg | 1973 Baucis , 1988 Endurance , 1990 Linde II , 1993 Rosali , 2001 Apollo Condor , 2011 Capt. Mohamad A , 2013 From Vela |
| Carlota Bolten | V. d. 887 | 7208716 | 29th September 1972 | Aug. Bolten, Hamburg | 1975 Philemon , 1988 Reliance , 1990 Anja , 1990 Anja B , 1999 Ariel , 2003 Captain Omar , 2014 Millac |
| Susan Miller | Arnhemsche / 462 | 7208728 | October 9, 1972 | Aug. Bolten, Hamburg | 1978 Artemis , 1982 Artemis I , 1999 Apollo Falcon , 2011 Brave Warrior |
| Angelica Schulte | Vuyk & Zones / 858 | 7125201 | June 30, 1972 | Bernhard Schulte, Hamburg | 1986 Anja , stranded on the west coast of Spain on February 28, 1991 |
| Christiane Schulte | Vuyk & Zones / 857 | 7117826 | April 7, 1972 | Bernhard Schulte, Hamburg | 1986 Christa , 1992 new bow and central nave, Christiane Schulte , 1998 Apollo Eagle , 2010 Brave Heart |
| Equasis, large tonnage | |||||
literature
- 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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Angelica Schulte at Wrecksite (English)
- ↑ Equasis homepage (English)
- ↑ grosstonnage homepage (English)