Willehad (ship)
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.jpg) Sister ship Wittekind as USS Freedom |
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| Launch : | March 21, 1894 | |
| Commissioning: | May 11, 1894 | |
| Builder: | Blohm & Voss , Hamburg | |
| Build number: | 101 | |
| Sister ship: | Wittekind (1894) | |
| Passengers: | 1196 between deck | |
| Crew: | 65 men | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Measurement: | 5,003 GRT | |
| Load capacity: | 5,900 dw | |
| Length over all: | 122.22 m | |
| Width: | 14.03 m | |
| Draft : | 7.52 m | |
| Machinery: | 2 triple expansion steam engines | |
| Number of screws: | 2 | |
| Indexed performance: | 2,500 hp (1.8 MW) | |
| Top speed: | 12 kn | |
| Whereabouts | ||
| Confiscated by the USA in New London in 1917, demolished in 1924 |
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The Willehad (1894) and her sister ship Wittekind were built by Blohm & Voss for the mixed passenger and freight service of North German Lloyd (NDL), Bremen, to North and South America. The two twin screw steamers were the first newbuildings that the NDL ordered from the Hamburg shipyard . They were single-chimney ships with two masts .
Use at the NDL
The Willehad sailed from Bremen to New York on May 24, 1894 on her maiden voyage . The first trip from Bremen to La Plata followed on November 10, 1894 . By 1903 she drove to South America twelve times.
On the US voyage from December 4, 1896, the Willehad also went to Baltimore to New York .
On July 18, 1900, the Willehad was first used on the Reichspostdampferlinie to Australia. At that time she had reduced to 1,091 people steerage capacity , but had 105 cabin spaces of II. Class. Although basically planned, the Willehad was not extended like the sister ship Wittekind .
From May 3, 1904, she drove from Stettin via Helsingborg , Gothenburg and Kristiansand to New York. On this "Scandia Line" with monthly departures, it was used three times (May, July 2nd, August 27th) next to the Adriatic of HAPAG (5568 GRT, 1896, 4 departures).
From 1904 the ship is said to have been in service for a time on the Austral-Japan line of the Reichspostdampferdienst. In 1907 she also took over a replacement transport to China, brought a replacement to Tientsin and from there took parts of the East Asian occupation brigade home, which had been greatly reduced in June of the previous year, but was not dissolved until 1909.
On April 16, 1909, the Willehad began its first journey from Hamburg to Québec and Montreal . On January 4, 1912, it was first used on a line to Philadelphia , which it had already started in 1903. In 1913 and 1914 she was only used in Canada. Her 24th and last journey on this route began on July 10, 1914.
Because of the imminent danger of war, the Willehad ran prematurely from Montreal with a load of wheat and oats and reached the neutral Boston on August 5, 1914 , where it was launched . In 1916 she was relocated to New London to serve as a barge for the crew of the merchant submarine Deutschland . When the USA entered the war, it was confiscated and renamed Wyandotte . She was used as a houseboat for prisoners of war.
In 1924 it was scrapped in Baltimore.
Individual evidence
- ↑ image of the Willehad
- ↑ Not mentioned in biographies on the ship, but in information on ship mail from German colonies; North Atlantic voyages between Bremen and USA do not appear to have been carried out by Willehad between the beginning of February 1904 and April 1907
- ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 15. Leipzig 1908, p. 168.
literature
- Carl Herbert: War voyages of German merchant ships. Achievements of the merchant navy and their men in World War II. Broschek & Co., Hamburg 1934.
- Noel RP Bonsor: North Atlantic Seaway. Vol. 2, Newton Abbey & Jersey, 1976.
- Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping. Volume 1, The Pioneering Years from 1850 to 1890. Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1986.
- Claus Rothe: German ocean passenger ships 1896 to 1918. Steiger Verlag, Moers 1986, ISBN 3-921564-80-8 .
- Arnold Kludas: The ships of the North German Lloyd. Volume 1, 1857 to 1919. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1991, ISBN 3-7822-0524-3 .
- Christine Reinke-Kunze: History of the Reichs-Post-Steamers. Connection between the continents 1886–1914. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1994, ISBN 3-7822-0618-5 .