Varna (ship, 1902)
 The Varna between 1921 and 1929
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The Varna (Bulgarian: Варна ) was a cargo ship built in 1902 by the Bulgarian shipping company Societé Commerciale Bulgare de Navigation à Vapeur and only the company's third ship. The Varna sank in December 1929 in a collision with a Greek freighter in the Sea of Marmara .
Construction and technical data
The ship was a cargo ship in the shipyard Wood, Skinner & Co in Bill Quay in Newcastle upon Tyne with the hull number built 107 and expired on June 5, 1902 from the stack . The completion and delivery took place in August of that year. The ship was 82.35 meters long, 12.03 meters wide and had a draft of 5.70 meters. It was measured with 1820 GRT or 1164 NRT. The load capacity was 2945 dwt . A three cylinder triple expansion steam engine manufactured by G. Clark Ltd. from Sunderland generated 206 nominal horsepower and enabled a speed of 9.0 knots via one screw . The ship offered accommodation for five passengers.
history
The shipping company Lombard Steamship Co. from London originally ordered the new building and the ship was initially named Numidie when it was launched . Sales negotiations began as early as January 1903 and on January 25, 1903, the Numidie came into the possession of the Societé Commerciale Bulgare de Navigation à Vapeur, where it was named Varna after the city of the same name, Varna . For the shipping company, the Varna was only the third ship they owned, followed in the following years by the smaller freighters Sofia (255 GRT) and Kyril (441 GRT). Until 1928, the Varna was also the largest ship in the Bulgarian merchant fleet.
The Varna's first voyage was across the English Channel to France. In Bordeaux she fetched freight for Cardiff , where she then loaded coal for Bulgaria. During the Balkan Wars of 1912/1913, the ship participated in the support of the Bulgarian army and transported troops and supplies. During the First World War , the Varna was again used for transport tasks. When food was scarce after the First World War, the Varna transported food to supply the city of Pleven .
The end of the ship came in December 1929, when the Varna was on a voyage from Varna to Volos in Greece with a load of cattle as cargo . On the night of December 25th to December 26th, the Greek 8,000-ton steamer Chryssi rammed the ship on the starboard side about 80 nautical miles from Istanbul in the Sea of Marmara. All 26 crew members and five passengers caring for the cattle died when the ship went down.
Web links
- Tyne built ships: Varna (with photos), accessed March 29, 2019
- Numidie SS (1902 ~ 1902) Varna SS (+1 929) at wrecksite.eu , accessed March 29, 2019
- Seefahrts-Zeitung - online edition (Bulgarian) , accessed on March 29, 2019
- Website of the Bulgarian successor shipping company Navibulgar (Bulgarian / English) , accessed on March 29, 2019
- Navibulgar news December 2012 - January 2013 (history of the shipping company with many photos) , accessed on March 29, 2019