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24-469: (Redirected from Freienfels ) Two steamships of DDG Hansa were named Freienfels . SS  Freienfels  (1910) , seized in 1914 by the United Kingdom SS ; Freienfels  (1929) , struck a mine off Livorno, Italy in 1941 and sank [REDACTED] [REDACTED] List of ships with the same or similar names This article includes

48-452: A list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SS_Freienfels&oldid=846866862 " Categories : Set index articles on ships Ship names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

72-608: A crane capable of lifting 120 tonnes . Beginning in 1922, the company also began doing increasing business with Persia and the Arab states around the Persian Gulf . 19 ships had to be laid up during the Great Depression of the early 1930s, but after that DDG Hansa expanded once more, to become the largest heavy freight shipping line in the world. At the start of World War II in 1939, the company were operating several lines to India,

96-579: A monthly service between the US and the Persian Gulf, and a bimonthly service between the US and southern and East Africa. After World War II, DDG Hansa had lost all their ships to bombing and seizure by the Allies, and the headquarters building was demolished. From 1943 to 1969, the chairman was Hermann Helms (1898–1983), son of the previous chairman; he was succeeded in turn by his son, also Hermann Helms. In 1948,

120-498: A total of 437,489 GRT, all but one ship, the Soneck , with which service to Spain resumed in August 1919. Helms, who remained head of the company until 1940, rebuilt the fleet. Service to India resumed in 1920. With a view to meeting the demand for delivery of railway locomotives to British India, Hansa took delivery in 1929 of SS  Lichtenfels , the first modern heavy lift ship , with

144-711: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles DDG Hansa DDG Hansa was founded on 3 December 1881 at the "constituent general assembly" in Bremen by a consortium of 17 Bremen and 2 Bremerhaven companies, to provide steamship connections for trade with Asia, the Baltic , and the Mediterranean . The first voyage was by Stolzenfels from Newcastle to Singapore in February 1882. Regular service began in 1882 with seven ships. Under its first head, Oltmann Johann Dietrich Ahlers,

168-497: Is somewhat similar to a dry bulk carrier or some forms of oil tanker . Its ballast tanks can be flooded to lower the well deck below the water's surface, allowing oil platforms , other vessels, or other floating cargo to be moved into position for loading (float-on/float-off). The tanks are then pumped out, and the well deck rises to bear the load. To balance the cargo, the tanks can be pumped out unevenly. Float-on/float off vessels transport oil drilling rigs. Such ships can carry

192-594: The MT ; Vulcanus . MT  Stahleck , built in 1977, operated worldwide carrying especially large and heavy loads and was the model for the John Henry and the Paul Bunyan of American Heavy Lift Shipping Company of Pittsburgh, and Hansa employees trained and assisted their crews. It was the world's largest heavy lift shipping company. In the second half of the 1970s, DDG Hansa invested large amounts of money updating

216-470: The container field, including experimentation with floating containers, and Roll-on/roll-off cargo haulage; Mariaeck and Brunneck , commissioned in 1968, could handle up to 800 tonnes of RoRo cargo, and in the 1970s DDG Hansa circumvented congestion problems at Persian Gulf and Red Sea ports by using large RoRo ships and its own terminals. Through subsidiaries, the company also owned and operated incinerator ships burning chemical waste, beginning with

240-510: The "Fels ships". A harbour basin in Rotterdam was named Felshaven in honour of the line. Heavy lift ship A heavy-lift ship is a vessel designed to move very large loads that cannot be transported by normal ships. They are of two types: There are several types of heavy-lift ships: Semi-submersible heavy-lift ships have a long and low well deck between a forward pilot house and an aft machinery space. In superficial appearance, it

264-499: The 1890s. In 1910 Ahlers was succeeded as Chairman of the Board by Hermann Helms (1868–1942). In 1912, diesel power was introduced; in 1914, the line had 66 steamships and one motor-powered ship, and with a total gross register tonnage of 437,789, was the world's largest freight shipping company and the third largest shipping company in Germany. In World War I the company lost 81 vessels,

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288-512: The 1920s, the Bremen -based shipping company DDG Hansa had a growing demand of shipments for assembled locomotives to British India. That resulted in the construction of the world's first heavy lift vessel, SS  Lichtenfels with a 120  t (118 long tons ; 132 short tons ) derrick. After World War II , DDG Hansa became the world's largest heavy lift shipping company. In terms of lifting capacity it reached its maximum in 1978 with refitting

312-505: The company restarted, at first in shipwreck recovery and towing using barges, and then in 1950 resuming freight service to India and Persia with three secondhand ships. In 1956, the company had a fleet of 44 ships, mostly second-hand and new heavy freighters , sailing between Bremen, India, Pakistan, Ceylon , Burma, and the Persian Gulf. The company continued to have a reputation for innovation. The Lichtenfels -series of heavy freighters, beginning in 1954 with MT  Lichtenfels , were

336-597: The company withdrew from the Baltic and limited its Mediterranean activities to the Iberian Peninsula , but its affiliate the Asiatische Linie was able to compete well in trade with India by concentrating on the less well served East Coast ports, and the fleet was expanded with newer ships. The two companies merged in 1894 and by 1899 the company had 40 ships. The routes were also expanded, for example to South America in

360-507: The first heavy lift ships equipped with the Stülcken derrick . They also had an unusual deck configuration, with the wheelhouse in the bow and the other superstructure aft, leading to the nickname 'Picasso ships'. Beginning in 1965, the company diversified into platform supply vessels , three years later making this a separate division, Offshore Supply Association (OSA), in partnership with VTG AG of Hamburg. The company also diversified into

384-526: The fleet and diversifying; a bad economic climate and the weakness of the U.S. dollar against the mark then led to financial difficulties. Attempts by the company to reduce high labour costs by " outflagging " ships to the Philippines flag were not sufficient to staunch losses, even though its foreign flag fleet was profitable. Deutsche Bank and two insurance companies came to own 80% of the company; in 1979, its financial assets were sold to Hapag Lloyd ; and

408-450: The loss of business in Iran as a result of the 1979 revolution finally caused the company to file for bankruptcy on 18 August 1980. The company ceased operations by 31 December that year. The ships were taken over by other companies, the lines and the container business by Hapag-Lloyd, the platform service business by VTG, and many of the heavy lift ships were sold to a Greek owner who used

432-528: The name 'Hansa Heavy Lift' and changed the names of the ships to end in - bels . The brand name DDG Hansa was sold in 1984 to Project Carries and is now owned by Deutsche Seereederei of Rostock, operating as Interhansa AG (previously Reederei Hansa AG). DDG Hansa gave their ships names ending in - fels , - burg , - eck and - turm (rock, fort, crag, tower). The "-fels" ending was so common, e.g. Freienfels , Goldenfels , Schneefels , Uhenfels , Wachtfels , that they were collectively referred to as

456-497: The rigs from their construction site to a drilling site at roughly three to four times the speed of a self-deploying rig. Rapid deployment of the rig to the drilling site can result in major savings. They also transport other out-sized cargo and yachts . The U.S. Navy has used such ships to bring damaged warships back to the United States for repair. The first was the guided missile frigate USS  Samuel B. Roberts , which

480-464: The then-largest heavy transport carrier in the world until it was surpassed by the launch of Dockwise Vanguard in 2012. One of the company's vessels, Mighty Servant 2 , capsized and sank after hitting an uncharted single underwater isolated pinnacle of granite off Indonesia in November 1999. Cosco Shipping has available a fleet of 16 different size semi-submersible vessels which they claim to be

504-546: The world's largest semi-submersible heavy lift fleet. Dutch Spliethoff groups DYT Yacht Transport provides services with this type of vessel to yacht owners enabling to have their yacht "where it needs to be, when it needs to be there". Project cargo ships are non-submersible ships that load large and heavy cargo items with one or more on-board cranes. Such vessels have between 13,000 and 19,000 deadweight tonnage (DWT) capacity. Examples of cargo transported includes container cranes, bridge sections, and suction piles. During

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528-607: The world's largest semi-submersible oil platform, BP 's Thunder Horse PDQ , from the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering shipyard in South Korea to Kiewit Offshore Services in Ingleside, Texas . Many of the larger ships of this class are owned by the company Dockwise , including Mighty Servant 1 , Blue Marlin , and MV  Black Marlin . In 2004, Dockwise increased the deck width of Blue Marlin , to make it

552-449: Was nearly sunk by a naval mine in the central Persian Gulf on 14 April 1988. The frigate was towed to Dubai , then floated home to Newport, Rhode Island , aboard Mighty Servant 2 . Eleven years later, MV  Blue Marlin transported the U.S. guided missile destroyer USS  Cole from Aden , Yemen, to Pascagoula, Mississippi , after the warship was damaged in a bombing attack on 12 October 2000. USS  Fitzgerald

576-443: Was transported from Japan to Alabama after its 2017 collision with ACX Crystal . The U.S. Navy has also chartered other heavy lift ships to carry smaller craft, usually mine-countermeasure craft , or other patrol craft . Since there are no US-flagged heavy float-on/float-off ships, the U.S. Navy normally relies on its Military Sealift Command to charter them from the world commercial market. In 2004, Blue Marlin carried

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