Uarda (ship, 1899)
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The second Uarda from the German steam shipping company Kosmos was purchased by Hapag in 1902 . It was built in 1899 as Athesia by the Reiherstieg shipyard for Hapag. In the west coast service to South America, she was used as a cargo ship with cabin passengers.
Because of the First World War , the ship was laid up in Mollendo , Peru , and there confiscated in October 1917 and renamed Salaverry . Via France and Belgium, the ship reached Greece in 1924, where it was renamed Chloe and started up again. On September 13, 1932, the Chloe sank off Quessant .
History of the ship
The Athesia , built by the Reiherstieg shipyard for Hapag with hull number 403, was actually a single ship, even if it was included in the shipping company's “A” steamers. This steamer series consisted of six from the British shipyards Palmer (four, 1896) and Harland & Wolff (two, 1897) ships delivered for freight and emigrants traffic on the North Atlantic, whose names all start with A began. The class also included three twin screw ships built by the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft of roughly the same size, which were commissioned by Kirstens Hamburg-Calcutta Line and which were taken over by Hapag in 1897 as Aragonia , Ambria and Alesia . These nine steamers were all slightly smaller than the Athesia and the Assyria commissioned by Tecklenborg , which with 6581 GRT was Hapag's largest ship of this class. At the turn of the century, Hapag then ordered four more steamers that differed from the first ships from Palmer and the single ship Silvia in Flensburg, which was assigned to the class .
The simplicity of the passenger facilities resulted in all ships except for the Silvia from 1900 onwards to a reduction to a small cabin facility for less than ten passengers and use as a freighter.
The Athesia was launched on June 4, 1899 at the Reiherstieg shipyard and was delivered on August 12, 1899 as the eleventh A-class ship. Like the British forerunners and the Assyria , it had a four-way expansion steam engine from the Bauwerft that developed 2500 hp and enabled a service speed of 11 knots. It was the only ship with only two boilers. With a length of 131.44 m, she was 10 m longer than the British ships and the longest ship in the series to date. With initially 20 first class cabin seats and space for 1,100 passengers in the intermediate deck, it largely corresponded to its predecessors.
On August 21, 1899, the Athesia began her maiden voyage to Philadelphia . On 15./16. In November 1899 she tried in vain to tow the burning Patria in the canal and took over its crew after the arrival of salvage tugs who, however , could not save the Patria either. The Athesia remained in service on the North Atlantic until 1902; after New York it was not used.
Sale to DDG Kosmos
On October 21, 1902 the Athesia was sold to the DDG Kosmos, which she used as ' Uarda' in her service to the west coast of America. For a few days she was the largest ship in the company.
Uarda was the title character in a novel by the popular Egyptologist Georg Ebers . DDG Kosmos had used the name as early as 1880 to 1889 for a 1505 GRT steamer that was built in Flensburg. The Uarda was used in the freight service, which gained importance on the lines of society. Hapag associated in community service began here later her A-steamer of the last series of Palmers and the DDG cosmos since 1905. British-built cargo ships whose names begin with S began.
Under other flags
At the beginning of the First World War, the Uarda sought refuge in Mollendo , Peru . She was not included in the supply trips for the German East Asia Squadron , which marched across the Pacific to South America. Under the influence of the USA, Peru broke off its diplomatic relations with the German Empire on October 6, 1917. The Uarda , the only German steamer in Mollendo, was occupied by the Peruvian authorities. The crew managed to make the machine unusable.
The Peruvians confiscated the ship and named it Salaverry after the former Peruvian President Felipe Santiago de Salaverry in June 1918 . The ships confiscated in Peru were sent to the Allied ship distribution in 1918 and were checked for suitability by the Americans. In addition to the Uarda , the Rhakotis , Luxor and Anubis of the DDG Kosmos in Callao were also confiscated and renamed. Salaverry ex Uarda and Paita ex Anubis were towed to Balboa on the Panama Canal because of damaged machines, to be repaired in the docks there.
The repaired Salaverry was assigned to France and then sold to De Cort & Verschueren in Belgium. Under the Peruvian name, the ship came to Greece on November 24, 1924, where it was renamed Cloe and actually returned to service for Lykiardopoulos ND & GZ - Cephalonian Maritime Co. Ltd., Argostoli . On September 13, 1932 decreased Chloe before Quessant at 48 ° 20 '0 " N , 5 ° 9' 0" W .
literature
- Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping Volume II Expansion on All Seas 1890 to 1900 Chapter 12: Struggle and Understanding , Writings of the German Shipping Museum, Volume 19
- Arnold Kludas: The History of German Passenger Shipping Volume III Leap growth 1900 to 1914 Chapter 8: Joint growth , writings of the German Maritime Museum, Volume 20
- Claus Rothe: German ocean passenger ships. 1896 to 1918 . Steiger Verlag, Moers 1986, ISBN 3-921564-80-8 .
Web links
- Athesia
- Downfall of Chloe
- Report of the Canal Governor 1920 with mention of the repair of the two German ships
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kludas: The History of German Passenger Shipping Volume II, pp. 84f.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Rothe: German Ocean Passenger Ships 1896 to 1918 , p. 61.
- ↑ Kludas: Passenger Shipping , Vol. II, p. 98
- ↑ No trips to New York with emigrants ( memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Annual report of the Governor of the Panama Canal for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1920 (1920)
