SS Caribia
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.jpg) SS Caribia on the Scheldt (1938).
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  Germany
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| Name: | Caribia |
| Operator: | Hamburg America Line |
| Port of registry: | |
| Ordered: | 1932 |
| Builder: | Blohm & Voss Hamburg |
| Yard number: | 493 |
| Launched: | 1 March 1932 |
| Completed: | 5 February 1933 |
| Commissioned: | 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | 1945 |
| Homeport: | Hamburg |
| Identification: | IMO number: 6807527 |
| Fate: | Transferred to United Kingdom, 1945 |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Caribia |
| Acquired: | 1945 |
| Identification: | IMO number: 6807527 |
| Fate: | Transferred to USSR, 1946 |
 Soviet Union
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| Name: | Ilitsch |
| Operator: | Far East Shipping Company |
| Port of registry: |
 Vladivostok |
| Acquired: | as spoils of war, 1946 |
| In service: | 1946–1981 |
| Struck: | 1981 |
| Homeport: | Vladivostok |
| Identification: | |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1984 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Ocean liner |
| Tonnage: | 12,049 GRT |
| Tons burthen: | 5,480 t DWT |
| Length: | 151.70 m (497.70 ft) |
| Beam: | 20.10 m (65.94 ft) |
| Draught: | 8.5 m (27.89 ft) |
| Installed power: | 11,500 shp |
| Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
| Capacity: |
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| Crew: | 198 |
| Notes: | Sister ship Cordillera |
The Caribia was a 1933 commissioned passenger/cargo ship of the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG), which was used in passenger traffic to Central America[1]. She became the property of the Soviet Union in 1946 and was scrapped in 1984.
The ship
The Caribia was a 12,049 GRT motor vessel built by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg for HAPAG's Central America service. The 151.70 meter long ship was launched on March 1, 1932 and was completed on February 5, 1933. She had an identical sister ship, the Cordillera (12,055 GRT), also commissioned in 1933. Both ships had two masts, a funnel, two propellers and could reach a speed of 17 knots. The Caribia could carry 234 first class, 103 tourist class and 110 third class passengers. The crew consisted of 198 people.
The construction of the Caribia and Cordillera helped save Blohm & Voss from bankruptcy during the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The Reich government contributed financially to the construction as a kind of job creation measure for the shipyard. In March 1933, the Caribia made her maiden voyage from Hamburg via the West Indies to Central America. In early 1939, the Caribia brought 85 German and Austrian Jews[2][3] to Venezuela, who were allowed to enter the country on the basis of a special permit from President Eleazar López Contreras[4]. The ship had first called at the British colony of Trinidad, where the Jewish passengers had been turned away.
The civil use of the ocean liner ended with the outbreak of the Second World War. From 1940 the ship in Flensburg-Mürwik was used as a residential ship for the Kriegsmarine. After Germany's surrender, the Caribia was taken over by the British in May 1945, who handed her over to the USA two months later. In 1946 the ship went to the Soviet Union as spoils of war. Under the name Ilitsch, the ship operated between the Russian port city of Vladivostok and the Kamtschatka. Decommissioned in 1983, the former Caribia was scrapped the following year.
References
- ↑ "Caribbean". Trains-WorldExpresses. 2012-06-22. Archived from the original on 2023-11-03.
M.S. "Caribia" entered the pages of technological history, when in 1935 in cooperation with the German Post for the first time a television reception has succeeded on board of a ship.
- ↑ Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States. Berghahn Books. 2010. ISBN 978-1845455873. Search this book on
- ↑ King, Jeff (2019-05-02). "Jewish refugee ships: Troubled waters". Archived from the original on 2023-11-03.
- ↑ "86 Allowed Temporary Stay in Venezuela". The Global Jewish News Source. Retrieved June 17, 2013.
External links
- Summary ship data and photo Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist.
- CARIBIA - Ships Nostalgia
- *Boyle, Ian. "HAPAG Page 3: 1915-1939". Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). Simplon Poastcards. – postcard of Caribia
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