Ulderup & Schlueter

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Ulderup & Schlueter was a German shipyard in Hong Kong that existed from 1906 to 1914 and built motor boats and smaller vehicles for coastal shipping and for colonial administration in German New Guinea .

history

The German engineer Johannes P. Ulderup and his compatriot, the businessman Carl Schlueter, founded a company in Hong Kong in 1906 as a trading house, agent for technical services and as a boat builder for motor boats. They moved to the company headquarters in Connaught Road, near today's ferry terminals. The actual shipyard site was in the Sham Shui Po District .

At the same time, the company was the local representative of the Swedish engine manufacturer Bolinder . At the time, it was one of the market leaders with its reliable and economical two-stroke engines for boats. In 1908 , Ulderup & Schlüter sold several 50 hp two-cylinder Bolinder engines for two motor boats from Hong Kong that operated as ferries between Chaoyang and Kueisu. The engines were built into the boats at the in-house shipyard.

Overall, only sporadic information is available on the shipyard. Numbers about new ships have been handed down for the years 1908 to 1911: In 1909 the shipyard built 17 vehicles with 146 GRT, in 1910 then 2 vehicles with 317 GRT and in 1911 a total of 30 boats and ships with 408 GRT. The average of these built tonnage points primarily to smaller boats, but smaller ships also played a role. One of the shipyard's larger customers was the German colonial administration in German New Guinea and other German clients. Ulderup & Schlüter built the schooner Orion (45 BRT) for them in 1909 , the steamer Madang (194 BRT) in 1910 , the steamer Buka (58 BRT) in 1911 , the steamer Kolonialgesellschaft (73 BRT) in 1912 and the Rabaul motorboat (5 BRT) in 1913 . Most of these buildings did not survive the First World War . The end of the shipyard came with the beginning of World War I when the British authorities seized the company and expropriated the owners.

Construction list (selection)

A construction list from the shipyard is not available. The following boats and ships are proven:

Surname year Ship type measurement Client Remarks
Johanna 1909 Motor yacht ? 6-meter motorboat registered in Amsterdam in 1924 to a private person; further unclear.
Orion 1909 More beautiful 45 GRT Jaluit Society Used in the coastal trade of the Jaluit Society in the Pacific, requisitioned by the colonial administration during the uprising on Ponape in 1910; 1914 Japanese prey, whereabouts unclear.
Madang 1910 Steamship 194 GRT New Guinea Company Use in coastal traffic in German New Guinea ; Taken over by Australia in 1914 and relocated to Rabaul; Whereabouts unknown.
Buka 1911 Steamship 58 GRT Governorate of German New Guinea Use in the station service of the Solomon Islands ; Sunk himself in 1914.
Colonial society 1912 Steamship 73 GRT German colonial society New building for the Empress Augusta River Expedition of 1912/13 in New Guinea , self-sunk in 1914.
Rabaul 1913 motorboat 5 GRT Governorate of German New Guinea Station boat in Rabaul des Landesfiscus in German New Guinea, whereabouts unknown.

literature

  • The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, The Philippines, & c. for the year 1909 , The Hongkong Daily Press Office, Hongkong / London 1909 ( limited preview in Google Book search ).
  • Carl T. Smith: The German speaking community in Hong Kong 1846–1918 , in: Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 34 (1994), pp. 1–55 ( limited preview in Google Book Search (PDF) )
  • Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German Warships 1815–1945, Volume 7: Landing Associations II: Landing vehicles in the narrow sense (Part 2), landing ferries, landing support vehicles, transporters; Ships and boats of the army, ships and boats of the Seeflieger / Luftwaffe, colonial vehicles , Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1990, ISBN 3-7637-4807-5 .

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Smith, p. 44
  2. ^ Directory & Chronicle, p. 1079
  3. ↑ 1911 Juros List bi Gwulo: old Hong Kong
  4. ↑ Hugh Farmer, Stephen Davies: Ulderup and Schlüter Shipyard, Sham Shui Po c1900-1914 at industrialhistoryhk.org
  5. ^ Department of Commerce and Labor: Daily Consular and Trade Reports , Nos. 77–153, Vol. 2, April, May and June 1912, Washington Government Printing Office, Washington 1912, p. 152 ( limited preview in Google Book Search )
  6. ↑ Hong Kong industry report 1910 at hkmemory.hk
  7. ↑ Hong Kong industry report 1911 at hkmemory.hk
  8. ↑ a b c d e Gröner, Jung, Maas, p. 223f.
  9. ↑ a b Hans J. Ohff: Empires of Enterprise: German and english commercial interests in east New Guinea 1884 to 1914 , doctoral thesis University of Adelaide 2008, p. 172 ( online version as PDF )
  10. ↑ Dutch Yacht Register 1924/25 (PDF)
  11. ↑ History of Buka in pacificwrecks.com
  12. ↑ Buka shipyard plaque on the website of the Australian War Memorial