Wigbert (ship, 1912)
 The similar second Wigbert
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The cargo ship Wigbert , which was commissioned by the Hamburg-Bremen Africa Line (HBAL) in 1912 , was built at the J. Frerichs & Co. shipyard in Einswarden for the Bremen shipping company's West Africa service .
In 1919 the ship was delivered to Great Britain . Not brought into service there, the shipping company bought back its old ship in 1921 and named it Walburg . In 1922 it was renamed again in Henner . It was the only pre-war ship in service with HBAL and was transferred to North German Lloyd (NDL) service at the end of 1925 .
In 1932, the Henner was one of the ships that the NDL sold to the Soviet Union . The ship, renamed Okhotsk , was scrapped around 1960.
history
Prewar years
On February 21, 1912, the Wigbert was launched at the Frerichswerft as its second new building for the Bremen Africa shipping company with hull number 251. The 104.5 m long and 14.6 m wide ship received a triple expansion engine of 1900 hp , which allowed a speed of up to 11 knots (kn). On April 25, 1912, the Wigbert was taken into service by the HBAL and deployed to West Africa. The ship was a single ship, like most of the shipping company's newbuildings after the Menzell Group's Chinese coastal voyage was founded.
When war broke out in 1914, the Wigbert was one of the shipping company's seven ships in the home. The other five ships sought refuge in the still neutral states of Portugal ( Ingraban , Ingbert ) and Brazil ( Walburg , Gundrun ) and in Douala in the then German colony of Cameroon , where the Arnfried was captured by the British at the end of September 1914. The other ships were confiscated when Portugal and then Brazil entered the war and some remained in service in these countries for a very long time.
War effort
Some of the ships that remained in their homeland were used to provide services for the Imperial Navy . The Wigbert served from March 17, 1917 to September 30, 1918 as Sperrbrecher 8 , Sp 1 (5.12. To 14.04.) And again Sp 8 . On September 17, 1918, west of Borkum at position 53 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ N , 6 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ E , the ship suffered a severe mine hit amidships. The engine and boiler room were full and the ship was brought to Bremerhaven by tugs . The ship, which was then decommissioned, was to be converted into an aircraft mother ship - just like the Answald of the shipping company, which was in service as such from 1914 to 1918 - for use in the Baltic Sea; Even in her time as a barrier breaker, the first attempts with a reconnaissance machine had been made on the Wigbert .
In 1919 the Wigbert was delivered to Great Britain. However, the shipping controller did not find anyone interested in the ship.
post war period
The German Reich was therefore able to buy back the ship on April 1, 1921 and, from the end of April, renamed it Walburg , since the HBAL had meanwhile put a new Wigbert in motion, to transport German prisoners of war back from Black Sea ports . In six trips it was able to bring 9,250 people back to Germany.
On February 14, 1922, the HBAL received her old ship back and renamed it Henner . Now the ship came back to its old trading area. When HBAL broke up in North German Lloyd at the turn of the year 1925/26, the Henner was the shipping company's oldest and only pre-war ship, which had five slightly smaller turbine ships and three slightly larger steamers, as well as the larger Ingo under construction.
At the beginning of the 1930s, about a third of all German ships were unemployed because of the global economic crisis . In the autumn of 1932 a commission of the USSR visited Germany to buy suitable ones from the lay-up ships. The NDL managed to sell twelve of its ships, including five former HBAL ships. In addition to the Henner , four of the smaller turbine ship newbuildings were also sold.
In Soviet service
In 1932, the Henner was one of the first twelve ships of the NDL to be sold to the Soviet Union. First it went to Odessa , renamed Okhotsk , along with five larger cargo steamers. However, the ship was then relocated to the Far East in 1932 and deployed from Vladivostok .
In 1960 the ship was deleted from the registers.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Kludas: Seeschiffe NDL 1920-1970 , p. 28
- ↑ a b c Kludas: ships of the Africa lines; P. 125
- ↑ a b c Kludas: ships of the Africa lines; Pp. 119-126
- ^ Herbert: Kriegsfahrten , p. 116
- ↑ The HBAL first gave the name Henner in 1907 to Carl Menzell ( FSG , BNr. 228, 1903), who was 1552 BRT and was in their possession until 1915 and before the war ran not only to West Africa, but also to East and West Africa South African service was deployed. The first Henner ran under the Danish flag until the Second World War for smaller German shipping companies and sank at the end of November 1944 as Max Bornhofen after a mine hit off Libau . Her three sister ships, meanwhile running for other shipping companies, were lost in the world wars. (Kludas: Afrika-Linien ; p. 119f.)
- ↑ a b Kludas: Seeschiffe NDL 1920-1970 , p. 28ff.
- ↑ melt head: Deutsche Handelschiffahrt ; P. 157
Web links
- Page on the history of the shipping companies Deutsche Afrika-Linien, John T. Essberger, u. a. as well as the trading house C. Woermann under construction
- The barrier breaker Wigbert
- Fennel: The German shipping companies. P. 116 HBAL
- Fennel, p. 116f, Frerichswerft
literature
- Carl Herbert: War voyages of German merchant ships . Broschek & Co, Hamburg 1934.
- Arnold Kludas : The ships of the German Africa Lines 1880 to 1945 . Verlag Gerhard Stalling, 1975, ISBN 3-7979-1867-4 .
- Arnold Kludas: Die Seeschiffe des Norddeutscher Lloydt 1920 to 1970, Vol. 2, Koehler Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1992, ISBN 3-7822-0534-0 .
- Reinhart Schmelzkopf: Die deutsche Handelsschiffahrt 1919–1939 , Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg, ISBN 3-7979-1847-X