Forward (ship, 1905)
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The Vorwärts was a German passenger steamship of the North German Lloyd .
history
The forward ran on May 19, 1905 as hull number 494 at the Bremer Vulkan from the stack . On June 15, 1905, she was put into service by Norddeutscher Lloyd for seaside resort traffic and as a tender. In 1918 it was captured by the Imperial Navy and used as a feeder for outpost boats. In 1919 the shipping company was able to get the ship going again. From the beginning of 1938 in the possession of Leth & Co. from Hamburg , the Vorwärts was sold to the Navy in the summer of 1939 . She had this converted into a submarine escort ship and launched her under the name Warnow . After the Second World War , she was used in Hamburg by the British occupying forces as an arrest ship for her relatives.
The HAPAG was born on February 24, 1948 owner of the ship. After conversion, she was used under the name Vorwärts in the seaside resort service of HAPAG, which she completed in 1952 as the last ship. From September 1952 she was in Hamburg launched . In November of the same year, it was sold to the scrapping company Eisen & Metall Leth & Co.
technology
Two triple expansion steam engines that operated on two screws achieved a total output of 1,000 hp. The forward thus reached a speed of 12 knots .
The passenger ship was approved for 1,040 passengers.
literature
- Claus Rothe: German seaside ships. 1830 to 1939 (= library of ship types ). transpress publishing house for transport, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-344-00393-3 , p.
Web links
- Forward. In: Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved October 26, 2009 .