Washbay line

Washbay line
legal form	GmbH
founding	1924/1952
resolution	1994
Seat	Hamburg
Branch	shipping

The Washbay Line GmbH was a shipping company based in Hamburg .

The Alster Rapid in Hamburg's Hansahafen

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The shipping company goes back to the merchant Henry Stahl, who was born in 1896. In 1924 he founded the Hamburg-based shipping company Henry Stahl & Co. GmbH , which set up a liner service between Hamburg and London. In the same year the company acquired the freight steamer Max Weidtman (formerly Taunus ), built in 1921 by Schiffswerfte & Maschinenfabrik AG , which was sold on to a Portuguese shipping company in 1928. In the following years, Henry Stahl worked with chartered tonnage in coastal shipping (for example, with the then oldest ship in the German merchant fleet, the freight steamer Pioneer built in 1873 ). Starting in 1952, the company set up a liner service between Hamburg and King's Lynn under the name Washbay-Linie with Kümo Lydia, who was chartered in the Netherlands , in which the Bremen-based Argo Reederei was also involved until 1968 . In 1956, a former war trawler converted into a Kümo was purchased from Norway and operated as an Agricola . The new Alster building was taken over from the Hamburg Sietas shipyard in 1958 .

From 1966 Peter Stahl, the founder's son, took over the management of the company. He began a collaboration with the shipping company Schulte & Bruns and the Schulte & Bruns shipyard in Emden, which lasted seven years. In 1966 the shipyard initially delivered the RoRo ship Alster - it was one of the first German ships of this type. In 1968, the Lynn followed , which was initially chartered long-term to the Washbay-Line and acquired by her in 1978. The shipping company's third ro-ro ship was Henry Stahl , which was delivered in 1973 by Schulte & Bruns shipyard and was named after the company's founder, who died in 1969.

Around 1980 the company traded as Henry Stahl GmbH & Co. KG . In 1986 the shipping company took over its largest new building, the LoRo ship Alster Rapid, from the Sietas shipyard. One of the main pillars of the shipping company was the shipping of brand new Škoda cars (the " Rapid " of the new building from 1986 had its origin here). Cargo handling in Hamburg took place at sheds 10 and 11 in the Sandtorhafen , which was specially equipped with a rolling system . After the takeover of Škoda by Volkswagen in 1992, car shipping on the Washbay line via King's Lynn came to a standstill and in 1994 the company had to file for bankruptcy. The shipping company's last two ships, the Alster Rapid and the Henry Stahl , were auctioned off in Rotterdam in 1994/95.

The ships of the Washbay Line (selection)

Shipping company fleet of the shipping company Henry Stahl / Washbay-Linie
Building name	Shipyard / construction number	IMO number	Launched delivery	Client	Later names and whereabouts
HMS Minalto (T 362)	Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley / 717	5367740	July 3rd, 1943 October 5th, 1943	British Admiralty	1947 at Kristiansands Mek. Verksted converted to the Lillen coaster , taken over by Washbay-Linie in 1956 as Agricola , 1958 Holstentor , 1961 Trave , 1964 Perna , overturned on the slip of the shipyard in Vranjic on August 28, 1978, scrapped from December 1978 at Brodospas in Split
Alster	Sietas / 453	5012632	06.07.1958 24.06.1958	Partner shipping company MS "Alster", Hamburg Washbay Line, Hamburg	1966 Alster II , 1974 Patras , 1975 Hope R , 1979 Adnan , so entered in the register in 2020, condition unclear
Alster	Schulte & Bruns / 230	6704050	20.10.1966 12.08.1966	Partner shipping company MS "Alster", Hamburg Washbay Line, Hamburg	1983 Al Faris 1 , 1989 Red Sea , 1999 Ahmad , trailer in Ajman since 2012 , condition unclear
Lynn	Schulte & Bruns / 251	6826157	August 19, 1968 October 8, 1968	Schulte & Bruns, Emden	Taken over by Washbay Line in 1968, Dorado in 1990 , Marina III in 1994 , Marina I in 2000, Marina in 2001, Lynn , on September 7, 2001 after water ingress about 14 nautical miles northwest of Paphos in position 34.49 ° N; 032.08 ° E decreased
Henry Stahl	Schulte & Bruns / 274	7349651	October 24, 1973 December 17, 1973	Washbay Line, Hamburg	1995 Ytong I , 2005 Ester I , converted to the animal transporter Malak I in June 2010 , so in service in 2020
Alster Rapid	Sietas / 978	8602414	05/03/1986 06/23/1986	Thien & Heyenga partner shipping company Alster Rapid, Hamburg Henry Stahl, Hamburg	auctioned in Rotterdam on November 16, 1994, Arneb in 1995 , Atlantic Osprey in 1999 , arrived in Swansea (Wales) for demolition on August 21, 2014
Lloyd's Register, Equasis, large tonnage