Zeppelin (ship, 1914)
 The ship 1919
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The steamship Zeppelin was a passenger ship that was built in Bremen on behalf of the North German Lloyd . It became known (especially in Germany and Norway ) but later under the name Dresden .
Shipyard
The launching of the ship took place on 9 June 1914 in the Bremer Vulkan in Vegesack instead. It was handed over to the North German Lloyd under the name Zeppelin on January 21, 1915.
The First World War
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Because of the First World War, the steamship was Zeppelin initially not in service, but in Bremen launched . After the First World War, the ship was handed over to Great Britain as reparations and should be managed by the White Star Line . However, it was immediately handed over to the US Navy's Transport Force and used for the rapid repatriation of North American soldiers from the former European theater of war. It has made at least two trips across the Atlantic with 7,500 military personnel on board each. The zeppelin returned to New York at the end of November 1919 and was returned to Great Britain in December of the same year. The ship was sold to the Orient SN Coes in London and renamed Ormuz . The first voyage under the British flag after almost two years of conversion began on November 12, 1921. The ship was used in liner service between London and Australia.
The time of the emigrants
In 1927 the steamer was bought back by Norddeutscher Lloyd and renamed Dresden . From August 5th, the ship was in the Bremen - Southampton - Cherbourg - New York service . Thousands of emigrants took the ship into a new future. The last trip was on September 7, 1933 from Bremen via Cherbourg and Galway to New York.
The time of the KdF trips
For the first KdF trips , the German passenger ship shipping companies initially chartered mostly older passenger ships. In May 1934, the Hamburg-Süd shipping company started with the Monte Olivia and the North German Lloyd with the Dresden . The Dresden was also used for the seventh holiday trip, Strength through Joy . The Norddeutscher Lloyd ship, with 993 participants on board, set off on June 11, 1934 at 12:00 p.m. for the first voyage with the planned total distance of 936 nautical miles (1783 km). The trip ended on June 15 at 12:00 in Bremerhaven.
Fall and Fate
The last voyage of the Dresden was to Norway and should take five days. On June 20, 1934 at 7:18 p.m. she was about 400 m from the Aresgrunnen navigation mark. There the ship ran aground during a storm at position 59 ° 12 ′ 7 ″ N , 5 ° 19 ′ 8 ″ E, off the island of Karmøy . After running aground, the ship was immediately listed. All 537 passengers and crew could be recovered from the Norwegian / Danish steamer Kong Haakon , 14 injured and two fatalities. The next day the Dresden capsized . Four people who were still on board for rescue work were killed. In Berlin they considered how to explain the misfortune to the public. "The steamer Dresden was a victim of force majeure" is the indication of the type of accident. In August 1934, large steel parts were scrapped in Stavanger. The remains of the wreck are easily accessible for divers from the coast and lie at a depth of 4 to 10 meters.
literature
- Tony Gibbons: The World of Ships. Bassermann Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-8094-2186-3
- NRP Bonsor: North Atlantic Seaway , vol. 2, p.572
- Claus Rothe: German ocean passenger ships 1919 to 1985. Library of ship types, publisher transpress, Berlin 1987
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Horst Adler: Schweidnitz in the years 1934–1939 Materials for a town history A Schweidnitzer reports enthusiastically about his eight-day KdF sea voyage on the steamer “Monte Olivia”. 1,000 Silesians were on board. (May 22, 1934) (PDF; 387 kB), accessed on February 28, 2013
- ↑ Hitler's “Fleet of Peace” , Die Zeit, January 11, 1985
- ↑ USS ZEPPELIN