Egypt (Schiff, 1896) – Wikipedia

The Egypt was the first cargo ship to sold the Belgian shipping company Armement Adolph Deppe in Antwerp by the German steamship company “Hansa” (DDG “Hansa”). The Belgian shipping company bought two sister ships from Egypt until 1909. In 1896 she was by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. in Middlesbrough to the DDG “Hansa” as Wolfsburg was delivered to La Plata for service. The shipyard delivered two more ships to the Bremen shipping company. This construction series was the first ship the 1907 Sonnenburg , which was built at Wigham & Richardson in Newcastle.

From 1907 the Bremen shipping company replaced these ships with new buildings. The first ship delivered by Dixon Rudelsburg Was as Babylon to A. C. de Freitas & Co. sold for service to the German Levant line (DLL). The other three ships went to the Belgian shipping company Armement Deppe until 1909, which she also used with her subsidiary Compagnie Compagnie Nationale Belge de Transports Maritimes in conjunction with the DLL.

In the Egypt renamed Wolfsburg Already on February 20, 1909, before Patras after a collision with the Greek steamer Andreas lost.

At the beginning of 1897, the DDG “Hansa” from British shipyards received four new ships of over 2500 BRT and 3700 TDW for their La Plata service. They gradually replaced the smaller ships of the ships of the ships purchased from 1889 in Flensburg and Denmark Wartburg -Class, which was sold to other shipping companies from 1899.

The Wolfsburg Was the second ship of the three ships in the series delivered by this shipyard in Middlesbrough in Middlesbrough. It was the last deliveries of the shipyard in Middlesbrough to the DDG Hansa, which received eight new buildings from the shipyard between 1893 and 1896. The fourth ship of the new South American vengeance delivered the Wigham & Richardson shipyard, the future main supplier of the Bremen shipping company.

The one created under Baunummer 418 Wolfsburg Run off stack on December 30, 1895. It had a length of 98.45 m in length over everything and was 12.9 m wide and had a draft of up to 4.44 m. She and her sister ships were the largest ships available for the shipping company so far. The ship was driven by a 3-cylinder three-way expansion machine of 1200 PSI, which enabled a speed of 9.5 knots (KN). The Wolfsburg Was measured with 2489 BRT and had a load -bearing capacity of 3700 tdw. On January 17, 1896, the ship was delivered. Wolfsburg Castle in Lower Saxony (then province of Hanover) was the namesake.

Use history of the Wolfsburg , then Egypt [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The Wolfsburg was used on the line of the DDG “Hansa” to the Rio de la Plata. From 1905 the replacement of the older ships began through the larger new buildings of the Marksburg class and so they were Wolfsburg and sold their sisters from 1907. The first ship went to a German shipping company working with the German Levante line. The Wolfsburg And their remaining sisters were sold to the Belgian shipping company Armement Deppe. This shipping company also worked with the DLL.

The first sold to Armement Deppe Wolfsburg was in Egypt renamed. As early as February 20, 1909 Andreas lost.

The sister ship bought in 1908 Algery (ex Memorial ) and that after the loss of Egypt 1909 bought Tunesie (ex Sonnenburg ) remained in the service of the Belgian shipping company until the end of the twenties, who acquired six former DDG Hansa ships after the end of the First World War.

In the mid -twenties, Armement Deppe sold the two old ships to new owners in Italy.

The La Plata steamer of the Sonnenburg -Class [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

• Hans Georg Prager: DDG Hansa – from the line service to special shipping. Koehler’s publishing company, Herford 1976, ISBN 3-7822-0105-1.

1. ↑ Data of the Sonnenburg
2. ↑ Data of the Rudelsburg
3. ↑ Building data of the Wolfsburg
4. ↑ Data of the Memorial