Valdivia (ship, 1886)
| VALDIVIA | |
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| Ship data | |
| Ship type : | Steamship |
| Use: | Cargo / passenger ship
Emigration ship / research ship |
| Home port (as Valdivia): | Hamburg |
| Ship christening | August 28, 1886 |
| Builder: | Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co., |
| Build number: | 496 |
| Main owner: | HAPAG |
| Technical specifications | |
| Build number: | 496 |
| Measurement : | 2176 GRT |
| Load capacity : | 2930 dw |
| Length over all: | 94.2 m |
| Width over everything: | 11.2 m |
| Construction depth: | 3 m |
| Max. Draft: | 6.6 m |
| machine | |
| Drive: | 1 triple expansion
Steam engine |
| Machine power: | 1400 PSi |
| Top speed: | 13 knots |
| Screws: | 1 |
| Chimneys: | 1 |
| Masts: | 2 with loading harness |
| Others | |
| Number of crew: | 47 |
| Passengers: | 281 of them 100 in the tween deck |
| Other ship names: | until 1896: Tijuca from 1908: Tom G. Corpi from 1909: Flandre |
| Whereabouts: | broken up in 1927 in La Seyne |
The Valdivia was a steamship of HAPAG , which according to the Chilean city of Valdivia was named. It operated as a cargo and emigration ship between Hamburg and the West Indies and South America.
History of the ship
The ship was built in 1886 at an English shipyard as Tijuca for the Hamburg South American Steamship Company and handed over to the shipping company on October 16 of the same year. It initially operated as a cargo and emigration ship between Germany and Brazil. In 1896 the Tijuca was bought by HAPAG and renamed Valdivia in order to use it in the Hamburg-West India service . In early 1898 the ship was converted for the first German deep-sea expedition, the Valdivia expedition . The expedition began on July 31, 1898 in Hamburg and lasted until May 1, 1899. In the early summer of 1900, the Valdivia was involved in a transport of troops and military material in connection with the Boxer Rebellion in China. From 1902 the ship drove in the so-called Atlas service between New York and the West Indies . During a trip from Kingston (Jamaica) to New York on February 13, 1907, a boiler of the steam engine exploded . The accident claimed seven lives. The ship was so badly damaged that it had to be towed to New York. On July 24, 1908, the ship was sold to the Hamburg shipowner P. R. Hinsch. It was named Tom G. Corpi with the home port Hamburg . The new owner sold the ship to the Société Générale de Transport Maritimes , based in Marseilles, in 1909 . It was renamed again in Flandres . In January 1927 the ship went to La Seyne to be scrapped there.
literature
- Carl Chun: From the depths of the ocean . 2nd revised and greatly increased edition. Gustav Fischer, Jena 1903 (Online: edoc server of the Humboldt University of Berlin ).
Web links
- Miramar Ship Index (English)
- The Ships List (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/T-Ships/tijuca1886.html
- ^ Names for research vessels
- ↑ Explosion At Sea Kills 7 On Liner . In: The New York Times , February 17, 1907
- ↑ SGTM