Ulderup & Schlueter
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 .
Web links
- Hugh Farmer, Stephen Davies: Ulderup and Schlüter Shipyard, Sham Shui Po c1900-1914 at industrialhistoryhk.org , access : February 2, 2020
- 1911 Jurors List at Old Hong Kong , accessed February 2, 2020
- Dutch Yacht Register 1924/25 , accessed on February 2, 2020
Footnotes
- ^ Smith, p. 44
- ^ Directory & Chronicle, p. 1079
- ↑ 1911 Juros List bi Gwulo: old Hong Kong
- ↑ Hugh Farmer, Stephen Davies: Ulderup and Schlüter Shipyard, Sham Shui Po c1900-1914 at industrialhistoryhk.org
- ^ 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 )
- ↑ Hong Kong industry report 1910 at hkmemory.hk
- ↑ Hong Kong industry report 1911 at hkmemory.hk
- ↑ a b c d e Gröner, Jung, Maas, p. 223f.
- ↑ 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 )
- ↑ Dutch Yacht Register 1924/25 (PDF)
- ↑ History of Buka in pacificwrecks.com
- ↑ Buka shipyard plaque on the website of the Australian War Memorial