Auke Visser´s German Esso Tanker's site     |   home
German ESSO Tankers Album
Hans & Kurt - (1891-1891)
Photobucket
Steam Tank Ship "Hans & Kurt".
RHFS / RJFD / DJAD - 3230 BRT  - 82,44 x 12,00 x 6.49 M - 1 Triple Expansion Steam Engine - 860 IHP,
build by Walssend Slipway & Engineering Co., Ltd., Wallsend. On 7.1887 launch.
On 8.1887 build by Sir W.G. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co., Low Walker on Tyne as "Hans & Kurt" for
G. J.H. Siemers & Co., Hamburg, Registered 15.8.1887.
27./28.5.1891 taken over by the Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Gesellschaft, Hamburg.
On 30.11.1891 sold to the SA pour l'Importation des Huiles de Grassage, Antwerpen and renamed "Oural".
10.4.1894 sold to the SA du Steamer 'Oural', Mgr. C. Good, Antwerpen.
19.11.1900 sold to the SA d'Armementd'Industrie & de Commerce, Antwerpen.
1915 to The Admiralty, London, 1919 returned.
14.6.1922 sold to the SA 'Oural', Antwerpen.
27.3.1926 sold to A. Christensen, Guiyaquil ( Equador).
1928 sold to A. Gordon Firing, Montevideo (Uruqauy).
27.2.1931 laid up.
April, 1932 sold to the NV Scheepvaart Mij. Houtvervoer, Rotterdam ( Holland).
10.6.1932 sold to the Atlantic Tank-Rhederei GmbH, Hamburg, renamed "Belt".
On 4.12.1934 sold for breaking up to the Köhlbrandwerft P. Behrendsohn, Hamburg.