Waried tanker shipping company

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Wilhelm Anton Riedemann
Glückauf , the first tanker steamship
Tank steamer Germany , the first tank steamer built in Germany

The Waried tanker Rhederei GmbH was founded on September 1, 1928th It was the successor to the trading and transport company founded by Wilhelm Anton Riedemann , Franz Ernst Schütte and Carl Schütte in Geestemünde in 1863 , which became the German-American Petroleum Society (DAPG) in 1890.

history

In the first years W. A. ​​Riedemann managed various ships. In 1873 the first own ship, the sailing ship Derby , was put into service. Together with the heir of the Bremen company Albert Nicolaus Schütte & Sons , a large fleet of tank sailing ships and tank steamers was built up. In 1885 the full ship Andromeda was converted into the first tanker, and in the same year the world's first tanker, the Glückauf , was built at an English shipyard . Between 1876 and 1888, eleven sailing ships and six tankers sailed under the Riedemann flag. The flag was striped vertically, black, yellow and red with a red R in the yellow field.

On February 25, 1890, the merchants Franz Ernst Schütte, Carl Schütte, Wilhelm Anton Riedeman and John D. Rockefeller ( Standard Oil Company ) founded the German American Petroleum Company (DAPG) based in Bremen and later in Hamburg . The DAPG shipping company operated as the DAPG shipping company . As wire address the existing shortcut WARIED (abbreviation from W ilhelm A nton Ried taken usband). On April 1, 1892, the shipping company and the technical office of DAPG were relocated to Hamburg. On December 12, 1908, the Hanseatische Petroleum Handelsgesellschaft mbH was founded as a shipping company of DAPG, which was renamed Waried Tankschiff Rhederei GmbH in Hamburg in 1928 . In 1911 the shipping company had 23 tankers with a total of 84,000 GRT and ordered several newbuildings, including a ship with 15,000 GRT. In 1912 there were 21 tankers with a total of 130,000 GRT and new construction orders for 21 ships with a total of 175,000 GRT. In 1913 the first motor tanker , the Wotan with 6780 tdw , was put into service and the first 15,000 ton tanker, the Wilhelm A. Riedemann , was launched. In 1914, DAPG was the third largest German private shipping company with 41 tank steamers and three motor tankers as well as 1260 sea personnel. Between 1890 and 1937 57 tankers were built for this shipping company. The ships of the Baltic-American Petroleum-Import-Gesellschaft BAPIG, based in Danzig (1913 to 1937), a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company , were taken over by Riedemann in 1937 and carried a red-white-red vertical striped flag with a black R Midfield.

For the period from 1939 to 1951 there are no usable documents on the activities of the shipping company. On April 7, 1952, the Waried bought the motor tanker Esso Bolivar , measured at 15,255 GRT , which had been chartered by the shipping company since 1951 and was sailing with a German crew. In October 1954 the largest German merchant ship at the time, the turbine tanker Esso Düsseldorf with 26,650 tdw, was launched at AG Weser . At the end of the year Waried placed an order for a further six tankers, each with 36,000 dwt. The shipping company's own and chartered tonnage totaled 251,000 tdw, that is 57 percent of the West German tanker fleet.

Esso tanker shipping company

Inland tanker Esso Frankfurt

On July 13, 1956, Waried Tankschiff Rhederei GmbH, now a sister company of Esso AG , was renamed Esso Tankschiff Reederei GmbH (ETR), the shipping company flag was now black, white and red with vertical stripes with a red R in the white field. In the following years, the sea and inland tanker fleet was greatly expanded, in 1973 the ETR owned seven seagoing vessels with a total of around 1.5 million dwt and 23 inland tankers. The last new building was the Esso Deutschland (III) with 412,000 tdw , built at the Kawasaki shipyard in Sakaide / Japan, to be handed over to ETR on October 6, 1976. At the end of 1982 ETR only had three ocean tankers, the Esso Bonn , Esso Hamburg , each 250,000 tdw, as well as the Esso Germany and the inland tanker fleet in service. In 1984 the three above-mentioned tankers were subordinated to Exxon International and ETR was only operated as an agency and inland shipping company. All inland vessels were sold by the end of 1993 and the shipping company was dissolved on January 1, 1994.

literature

  • 100 years, history of Esso AG - book for the 100th anniversary.

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