Lower Weser (ship type)
| Unterweser type | |
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| Technical data (overview) | |
| Shipyard (s) : | Schiffbau-Gesellschaft Unterweser Schichau-Unterweser, Bremerhaven |
| Measurement : | approx. 5500 to 6000 GRT |
| Load capacity: | around 8100 to 8250 tons |
| Container: | around 250 TEU |
| Length over all: | 124.50 m |
| Width: | 18.10 m |
| Side height: | 10.20 m |
| Draft: | about 8.00 m |
| Drive: | 1 × four-stroke diesel engine on 1 × propeller |
| Total output: | approx. 4700 kW |
| Speed: | 17.5 knots |
| Crew: | around 20 |
| Values in brackets: extended version | |
The Unterweser type is a series cargo ship type of the Schiffbau-Gesellschaft Unterweser , later Schichau Unterweser in Bremerhaven. Between 1968 and 1972, eleven units of this Liberty replacement ship type were built .
history
In the tramp shipping center drove 1960s still about 700 of a total of about 3300 produced Liberty- and Victory standard freighters as well as some other cargo ships built during World War II in what was then the world's merchant fleet. Even the youngest of them were now 20 years and older, and so both the shipping companies and the shipyards were faced with the question of replacing these ships, which would have reached the end of their service life in the foreseeable future.
The great upheavals in maritime shipping, caused by the appearance of container ships and bulk carriers , which would later almost completely replace the general cargo ships , were not foreseeable as such at this point in time, so that the classic general cargo ship, which was in its form at the time since the turn of the century, was relatively few changes was built, still appeared up to date.
At the end of the 1960s, the shipbuilding company Unterweser also conceived a ship design to replace the then aging fleet of Liberty freighters and Victory ships.
The series was produced in eleven units from 1968 to 1972. The ships are mainly used in global tramping, initially partly also in regular service. The ships were mostly ordered with various combinations of cranes , some of them as connectable Gemini cranes, only the three units for the Bremen shipping company Schulte & Bruns were delivered with conventional loading gear .
Overview
| Lower Weser type ships | |||||
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| Construction year | Launched delivery |
Build number | Building name | Shipping company | Renaming and whereabouts |
| 1968 | 07/10/1968 10/24/1968 |
464 | Meta Reith | Baltika Line, Hamburg | from 1977 → Columbus Tahiti , from 1979 → Wille II , from 1979 → Barbara Leonhardt , from 1986 → Sandra S. , from 1994 → MSC Sandra S. , from 1996 → MSC Sandra , from February 10, 1979 → demolition in Alang |
| 1969 | December 20, 1968 March 18, 1969 |
465 | Willi Reith | Baltika Line, Hamburg | unknown |
| 1969 | 23.04.1969 06.30.1969 |
466 | Ede Sottorf | Erich Drescher, Hamburg | unknown |
| 1969 | 09/09/1969 12/13/1969 |
472 | Helene Roth | J. Roth, E. Jacob, Iller | unknown |
| 1971 | May 20, 1970 June 19, 1970 |
474 | Auguste Schulte | Schulte & Bruns, Lübeck | unknown |
| 1971 | August 21, 1970 December 10, 1970 |
475 | Günther Schulte | Schulte & Bruns, Lübeck | 1995 → Chiangrai |
| 1971 | November 16, 1970 February 23, 1971 |
476 | Erika Schulte | Schulte & Bruns, Lübeck | → Erika Naber → Novsong → Valetta II → Ocean Crest , from November 2, 1997 → Demolition in Bangladesh |
| 1971 | 06/22/1971 09/22/1971 |
479 | Matthias Reith | Orion Line, Hamburg | from 1978 → Matten I , from 1979 → Albega , from 1980 → Freestar , from 1981 → Maco , from 1982 → Partem , from 1984 → New Haihua , from 1995 → Xin Hai Hua , from 1996 → Jiu Jin Shan , from 2006 → Xin Chang 3 , from 2007 → Xin , 2007 → demolition in Alang |
| 1971 | 09/21/1971 12/15/1971 |
480 | Grete Reith | Orion Line, Hamburg | unknown |
| 1972 | December 6, 1971 March 18, 1972 |
481 | Lotte Reith | Orion Line, Hamburg | from 1978 → Lotte P. , from 1978 → Lotre , from 1980 → Okha , from 1983 → Green Ocean , from 1985 → Hua Qiong , from 1996 → Sea Contess , from 1978 → Zinnia , from February 8, 2001 → demolition in Alang |
| 1972 | March 6, 1972 May 18, 1972 |
482 | Ede Wittorf | Erich Drescher, Hamburg | unknown |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Construction list at Fischtown ( Memento from March 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
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 .
- Detlefsen, Gert Uwe; Abert, Hans Jürgen: The history and fate of German series freighters . Volume 2 - The fates and résumés of the Hansa B and C freighters, the German multi-purpose freighters, type '36 / 36 L ', Trampko, type' Rendsburg ', BV 16/1800, RW 39/49 and Eco-Box. Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen, Bad Zwischenahn 1998, ISBN 3-928473-42-5 .