Wartburg (ship, 1900)
.jpg) The Wartburg as American Seneca
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The freight steamer Wartburg was a German merchant ship belonging to the German Steamship Company "Hansa" . The freighter was built in 1900 by Wigham Richardson & Co, Ltd in Newcastle upon Tyne , England.
Since 1905 the ship was in the service of Norddeutscher Lloyd as Tübingen and sought refuge in Manila in 1914 and was confiscated when the USA entered the war in 1917 and then served as Seneca and Wabash in American service.
In 1924 it was sold to Italy for demolition.
Construction and technical data
The ship was in September 1900 at the shipyard of Wigham, Richardson & Co. in Newcastle upon Tyne with the hull number 365, stack . The British shipyard built the Goldenfels for the first time for DDG Hansa in 1895 and subsequently delivered a further eight ships, including the second Drachenfels of 7217 GRT, the shipping company's largest ship to date.
The ship had a registered length of 115.75 m, was 15.14 m wide, and had a side height of 10.53 m and a draft of 8.07 m. The ship was with 5448 BRT surveyed and 3,516 NRT and had a carrying capacity of 6,775 dwt . The machinery consisted of a quadruple expansion steam engine from Wigham Richardson & Co. with 2500 PSi , one screw and allowed a speed of 11.5 knots . The crew consisted of 48 to 56 men.
The Wartburg had a sister ship to the Löwenburg, built in Flensburg in 1900 . In view of the La Plata service, both ships were specially designed for the transport of cattle.
career
The Wartburg was delivered to DDG "Hansa" in Bremen on November 2, 1900 and operated for this shipping company until 1905 . She was the second ship of the shipping company named after the famous castle in Thuringia.
The first Wartburg of 1744 BRT was delivered in 1888 by the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (BauNr. 98) to the shipping company for their La Plata service and was the lead ship of six small steamers for this service that were built in Flensburg and Denmark. In 1899 she was sold as the first ship of the class together with the sister ship Löwenburg to the Hanseatische Dampfer Compagnie in Hamburg, managed by Menzell & Co, where she remained in service
as Arnold Luyken until her sinking in 1903 after a fire in Formosastrasse
On October 26, 1905, the North German Lloyd acquired the Wartburg (together with the sister ship Löwenburg, built in Flensburg ) from the DDG Hansa in order to use the two ships under the German flag under the name Tübingen and Sigmaringen on the route from Marseille to the Black Sea . Since the ships turned out to be too big for this service, they ran from 1907 in the East Asian service of the NDL. At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, the ship was in the port of Manila launched and there on April 6 in 1917 by the United States Shipping Board seized when the United States joined the conflict.
The ship was renamed Seneca and was part of the US Merchant Navy until February 1918 before it was taken over by the Navy under the name USS Wabash (ID # 1824). The ship made its first military voyage as a unit of the Marine Overseas Transportation Service from the United States to France and back from February to April. During her second military voyage, the USS Wabash collided in a convoy on the foggy night of May 22, 1918 with the US Navy patrol boat Wakiva and sank it.
During the remainder of the First World War and in the months following the armistice of November 11, 1918, she completed three more round-trip Atlantic crossings. The ship was demilitarized on April 21, 1919 and returned to the USA Shipping Board.
Subsequently, the ship was initially given to the French-American Line in New York and was intended to be renamed Celeste Fraenkel , but it was sold to the North Atlantic and Western Steamship Company in Wilmington in 1921 and sailed there as a merchant ship under the US until 1924 -Flag. After another sale to BWW Newhall in Boston, they sold the ship in the same year for demolition in Italy.
The sister ship Löwenburg / Sigmaringen
At the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft under construction no. 200 ships built were launched on July 8, 1900 as the second Löwenburg . With an overall length of 120.09 m, it corresponded to the Wartburg, which was built in England at the same time . The ship built in Flensburg was 15.29 m wide and had a draft of 8.99 m.
On September 15, 1900, the Löwenburg was the first of the sister ships to be taken over by DDG Hansa.
On December 9, 1905, it was also sold to the North German Lloyd. Intended for the service between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, which did not meet the expectations of the shipping company, she too came into the freight service to East Asia. In August 1914 she was in the Mediterranean and sought refuge in Syracuse .
After the Italians joined the war on the Entente side , the confiscated ship came into service with the Italian State Railways and was renamed Arnaldo da Brescia . In 1923 the former Löwenburg in Italy was broken up.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Kludas: Seeschiffe des NDL , Vol. I, S, 110
- ↑ Peter Kiehlmann, Holger Patzer: The cargo ships of the German steam shipping company "HANSA" . 1st edition. HM Hauschild, Bremen 2000, ISBN 3-931785-02-5 , p. 62 .
- ^ Online Library of Selected Images: SS Seneca (American Freighter, 1900). Previously the German freighter Wartburg and Tübingen. Served as USS Wabash (ID # 1824) in 1918-1919.
- ^ Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
- ↑ a b c d e f Kludas, Vol. I, p. 111
Web links
- Pictures and curriculum vitae of the Wartburg (2)
- Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Seneca
- Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Wabash (2)
- Pictures and curriculum vitae of the Löwenburg (2)
literature
- Arnold Kludas : The ships of the North German Lloyd 1857 to 1919 . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 1991, ISBN 3-7822-0524-3 .
- Hans Georg Prager : DDG Hansa: From liner service to special shipping. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford, 1976, ISBN 3-7822-0105-1
- Reinhold Thiel: The history of the DDG Hansa. Volume 1: 1881-1918. HM Hauschild, Bremen, 2010, ISBN 3-8975-7477-2