Westfalia class
 Side view of the Westfalia by Karsten Kunibert Krüger-Kopiske
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The internationally Westfalia class , but by the yard as Hammonia class described and because of the extension of the ship's name sometimes IA class or jokingly donkey class called ship class is a series of motor ships of the Hamburg-America Line . The Hapag express freighter series represents the penultimate draft of a conventional general cargo ship before the merger with North German Lloyd and the subsequent conversion of the two shipping companies to container ships .
history
The series of this type of ship from the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg comprised seven units that were put into service between 1964 and 1967. The shipping company hoped to improve the profitability of the Hapag Express service to the Far East through the concept of the fast freighters, which with their high speed of 21 knots enabled a considerable reduction in travel times . This joint service to East Asia was operated with Norddeutscher Lloyd, which two years later put seven similarly designed Friesenstein-class fast freighters into service.
The first ship of the class was the Westfalia , which was delivered on December 17, 1964 . The Thuringia concluded the class . She was handed over on March 13, 1967 and was also the fiftieth ship that the shipping company had received from the shipyard since 1888.
Even during the construction period of the Westfalia class, the change in long-distance liner traffic became clear with the introduction of the container. Although in 1970 a variant of the conventional general cargo ships was put into operation for the last time with the semi-container ships of the Omni class , this ultimately led to the fact that only a short time later the East Asian service was switched to full container ships. Even before Hapag merged with NDL on September 1, 1970, both shipping companies had ordered their first four container ships, which were put into service in 1972/1973 for the joint East Asia service of the newly founded Hapag-Lloyd . From this point on, five of the ships (all except Westfalia and Alemannia ) were used in the Indonesian service, which continued to operate conventionally, i.e. with general cargo. The ships of the Westfalia class were converted to semi-container ships.
The transformation of Hapag-Lloyd into a container liner shipping company continued until the end of the 1970s. The Westfalia class ships were flagged out and sold. All ships were abandoned again in 1986/87.
After the shipping company had operated a series known as the Hammonia class with the same ship name as early as 1863 , there is currently a Westfalia Express class based on this name with the ships Bavaria Express , Hammonia Express , Holsatia Express , Saxonia Express and Thuringia Express , Westfalia Express in the service of Hapag-Lloyd.
technology
The most striking feature, in addition to the extremely space-saving and very powerful drive system, were the versatile loading facilities. The first ship of the class, the Westfalia, was equipped with 22 conventional loading booms (16 × 5/10 tons and 6 × 3/5 tons). The following ships had a crane (3 tons) aft instead of the last cargo booms and the Thuringia also had a crane (3 tons) in front at hatch 1 instead of cargo posts and trees. - In order to increase the handling speed, their hangers and loading runners, as well as preventer and intermediate vessels, were operated by winches. In addition, all ships were equipped with 80-tonne cargo gear to take over heavy cargo . In front of the superstructure, which was moved far aft, there were five dry cargo holds, the two intermediate decks of which were each closed with hydraulic smooth deck hatch covers. The main hatch covers were built according to the McGregor patent. An insulated two-deck refrigerated cargo area for 750 m³ refrigerated cargo was connected behind the superstructure. Further cargo facilities were the eleven cargo tanks for 1450 m³ of liquid cargo, arranged in the fore ship area under the dry cargo holds and in the aft area below and behind the refrigerated cargo hold. B. Liquid chemicals originating from Europe, palm oil , latex, etc. coming from Indonesia .
The equipment of the Thuringia , as the last ship in the series, with a bulbous bow is remarkable .
The ships
- The Westfalia , the first ship in the Hapag series, was launched on August 26, 1964, and was handed over on December 17, 1964 with hull number 832. The ship was handed over to Hapag-Lloyd International SA, Panama in December 1977, but continued to operate under the German flag and its home port of Hamburg. In 1983 it was sold and renamed Saudi Jamal . In 1985 the ship was sold to a demolition yard in Kaohsiung .
- The second ship of the series was the Hammonia, delivered on August 14, 1965 with hull number 833 . It was transferred to Hapag-Lloyd International SA, Panama in 1979. On March 18, 1987, the ship arrived in Huangpu for demolition.
- The third ship of the series was the Alemannia, launched on May 25, 1965 with hull number 840 . The guest trip and subsequent handover to the shipping company took place on August 14, 1965. The Alemannia in 1979 initially to Hapag-Lloyd International SA, and then to the subsidiary Líneas Navieras Bolivianas (linalool) in La Paz sold, Bolivia and there as Bolivia continues to operate. Another seven years later, on July 24, 1986, it was scrapped in Xingang .
- Borussia, handed over on December 4, 1965, followed . For reasons of capacity, your hull was launched as a subcontract from the J. Boel et fils shipyard in Tamise, Belgium with hull number 1431; it was completed by Blohm + Voss as hull number 841. From 1979, it was operated by Hapag-Lloyd International SA, Panama and on January 14, 1987, she arrived in Kaohsiung for demolition.
- On May 14, 1966 the Bavaria with the construction number 846 was handed over . On the evening of March 6, 1968, an explosion occurred in the hold southwest of the Borkumriff barrel. When approaching the mouth of the Ems, the burning ship ran aground on the Lauwersgrund and was released on March 13th after the fire had been extinguished. Since 1979 she has been managed by Hapag-Lloyd International SA, Panama and on December 30, 1986 it was broken up in Kaohsiung .
- The handover of the Holsatia followed on October 15, 1966 with the construction number 847. It was also sold to Hapag-Lloyd International SA, Panama in 1978, and drove there before it was demolished in Kaohsiung on May 22, 1987 .
- The last ship of the series was launched on November 22, 1966 and delivered as Thuringia on March 13, 1967 with hull number 850 . The ship was handed over to Thuringia Carriers Pte Ltd, Singapore in 1982 and chartered back for three years. From June 11, 1987, the ship was demolished in Huangpu .
literature
- J. Tetzlaff, A. Gröschl, HD Albers: MS “Hammonia” . In: Ship and Harbor . Vol. 17, No. June 6 , 1965, p. 505-515 .
- Hans Georg Prager: Blohm + Voss . Ships and machines for the world. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1977, ISBN 3-7822-0127-2 .
Web links
- Class overview at Biedekarken
- Fleet sisters . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1963 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ship data on Miramar Ship Index ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ Ship data on Miramar Ship Index ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ Ship data on Miramar Ship Index ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ Ship data on Miramar Ship Index ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ Ship's diary . In: Bruno Bock (Ed.): Seekiste . Vol. 19, No. 6 . Verlag Schuldt, Hamburg June 1968, p. 4 .
- ↑ Ship data on Miramar Ship Index ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
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