The Vaderland as the only representative of this type was in 1872 at the shipyard Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company in Yarrow upon Tyne , United Kingdom as hull number 289 for as Red Star Line -known Belgian shipping company de Societe Anonyme Navigation Belge-Americaine in Antwerp built. It was intended to operate on regular routes between the United States and Europe . The basic idea of this ship, which anticipated essential elements of the Glückauf , which was also built in Newcastle on the Tyne in 1886 , was to avoid the ballast journey to the loading port, which is typical for tanker shipping. However, the already completed ship did not receive the necessary permission from the responsible authorities to carry passengers. The shipping company then renounced both operating options and had the Vaderland , as well as the sister ships Nederland and Switzerland already under construction, converted into conventional general cargo ships. In 1889 the ship was sold to a French owner and renamed Geographique . On October 2, 1889, the ship sank, 45 nautical miles west of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon , after a collision.
Loading space arrangement
The ship was divided into two areas:
Three passenger decks.
Five arranged under the passenger decks with petroleum tanks to be filled with oil from above amidships via filling and expansion shafts. The ventilation was carried out in the same way via the aforementioned shafts. The tank walls formed a double hull with the outer skin of the ship between 50 and 70 cm away .
literature
Jochen Brennecke: Tanker: From the petroleum clipper to the super tanker . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1975, ISBN 3-7822-0066-7 .
Rolf Schönknecht / Uwe Laue: Ocean freighters of the world shipping volume 2 . transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-344-00282-1 .
