S. S."GOLCONDA"
Die S.S. "Golconda" - nicht Golkonda wie oft in Breklumer Texten - 1892 vor Madras. Bild [Grosses Bild] der Golconda in ihren besten Tagen (4 J. alt) und noch sicherheitshalber oder wegen Kohlenersparnis (?) mit Besegelung. Ab 1914 umgebaut zum Truppentransporter für Verfrachtung indischer Truppen an die europäische Front. Danach sehr wahrscheinlich in dem selben Zustand für den Rücktransport der dt. Missionare 1916. (e.a.)
"Getragen auf Adlers Flügeln" Reise Indien-"Golconda"-GB-"Kilkenny"-NL-DE; von der mitreisenden Schwester Otty Jessen/Breklumer Mission.
"Unsere Kriegserlebnisse" Von derselben Reise Indien-"Golconda"-GB-"Kilkenny"-NL-DE; von Else Gäbler (gaebler.info).
Heimkehr mit der Golconda Von der ersten, vorhergegangenen Reise 1915/16 der Golconda mit deutschen Gefangenen (gaebler.info). Mit der 2. Reise wurden die Breklumer verschifft; eine 3. fiel "ins Wasser" wegen Versenkung der Golconda.
Bombay/Mumbai. Gedenkstätte für die Marine; auch für zivile Opfer wie dem "Boy" Abdul Ghafur.
Hier handelt es sich sehr wahrscheinlich um den indischen Küchen-Boy der während der Deportation von Missionaren Anfang 1916 im Atlantik von Bord der S.S. Golconda prang und unter grossem Aufsehen gerettet wurde. M.L.A. erinnerte sich trotz ihrer 3 J. an dieses "Ereignis" mit den tutenden Sirenen, Schiffswendung und Rettung des "boys", der aus Angst vor Schlägen vom Koch über Bord gesprungen war.| Name: | ABDUL GHAFUR |
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| Nationality: | Indian |
| Rank: | Boy |
| Regiment/Service: | Indian Merchant Service |
| Unit Text: | S.S. 'GOLCONDA' (Glasgow). |
| Date of Death: | 03/06/1916 |
| Casualty Type: | Commonwealth War Dead |
| Memorial: | BOMBAY 1914-1918 MEMORIAL |
Das Tower Hill Memorial in London für die umgekommenen Mannschaften der Handelsmarine und Fischereiflotte, u.a. der S.S. Golconda 1916
"The Tower Hill Memorial commemorates men and women of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets who died in both World Wars and who have no known grave. It stands on the south side of the garden of Trinity Square, London, close to The Tower of London. The Memorial Register may be consulted at Trinity House Corporation, Trinity Square (Cooper's Row entrance), Tower Hill, London EC3 N4DH, which will be found behind the Memorial. Tel: 020 7481 6900. - In the First World War, the civilian navy's duty was to be the supply service of the Royal Navy, to transport troops and supplies to the armies, to transport raw materials to overseas munitions factories and munitions from those factories, to maintain, on a reduced scale, the ordinary import and export trade, to supply food to the home country and - in spite of greatly enlarged risks and responsibilities - to provide both personnel and ships to supplement the existing resources of the Royal Navy. Losses of vessels were high from the outset, but had peaked in 1917 when in January the German government announced the adoption of "unrestricted submarine warfare". The subsequent preventative measures introduced by the Ministry of Shipping - including the setting up of the convoy system where warships were used to escort merchant vessels - led to a decrease in losses but by the end of the war, 3,305 merchant ships had been lost with a total of 17,000 lives. In the Second World War, losses were again considerable in the early years, reaching a peak in 1942. The heaviest losses were suffered in the Atlantic, but convoys making their way to Russia around the North Cape, and those supplying Malta in the Mediterranean were also particularly vulnerable to attack. In all, 4,786 merchant ships were lost during the war with a total of 32,000 lives. More than one quarter of this total were lost in home waters. The First World War section of the Tower Hill Memorial commemorates almost 12, 000 Mercantile Marine casualties who have no grave but the sea. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens with sculpture by Sir William Reid-Dick. The Second World War extension, designed by Sir Edward Maufe, with sculpture by Charles Wheeler, bears almost 24,000 names. - No. of Identified Casualties: 35809"
GOLCONDA (Postkarte)
Built in 1888 by William Doxford & Sons,Sunderland.
Tonnage: 6,037g, 3,960n, 6,000dwt.
Engine: Triple Expansion by Builder, 4,360 I.H.P., 13 Knots.
Launched 8th February 1887, Completed September 1888, Yard No 166.
Golconda-Anfrage E.A. 1990; Brief aus England 24.1.1991
(e.a.)
GOLCONDA 1887
5,874 gross ton passenger ship, length 422ft x beam 48.1ft, two funnels,
four masts, built 1887 by W. Doxford & Sons, Sunderland as the TRANSPACIFIC
on speculation. Registered Sep.1888 for British India Steam Navigation Co as
the GOLCONDA. 3rd Jun.1916 mined and sunk 5 miles SE x E of
Aldeburgh on
voyage Tees and London to Calcutta with general cargo (mariners)
"Golconda 1887 - 1915 became Indian Government transport, 1916 sunk by mine in North Sea, 19 lives lost."
"GOLCONDA, 5,874grt, 3 June 1916, 5 miles SE by E from Aldeburgh, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 19 lives lost." (naval-history.net/WW1Losses)
"GOLCONDA, BI Service1888-1916, Gross tons and Auxiliary rig 6037, Notes Barquentine Pax: 80 1st, 28 2nd. Sank after hitting mine in North Sea."
Die
"Golconda" im Suezkanal (biship.com)
Golconda 1887 6037 (or 5874 or 5270) tons
Hull 166
Nulli Seconda
Nulli Secondus
Transpacific
Golconda
Durbhunga
A 4 masted 'whaleback' passenger/cargo steamer. Per
1 (4th image down),
2 ('pdf' re sinking),
3 (extensive data, ship's bell, Christies 2006 auction, but
why engraved Glasgow?),
4 (data),
5 [British India, Golconda (2)],
6 (data, image link),
7 (data, sinking, p.27),
8 (image, Golconda),
9 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). Am
confused by the presently & previously available data re this
vessel. 422 ft. long, 2 funnels, barquentine rig, officers & a
crew of 100, speed of 12 knots. Attained 13.9 knots on her
trials. Laid down on speculation as Nulli Seconda. Intended for
Guion Line? Launched as Transpacific for Canadian Pacific. When
that deal fell through the vessel was sold to a Hull owner
(whom?) who named her Nulli Secondus, but that data may be
incorrect, though the name appears often. 'Marine
Engineer', in its Jan. 1888 issue, p.335, stated that the
vessel had not by then found a buyer. The limited passenger
capacity was, I read, a 'sales' problem, only 80 in 1st class &
28 in 2nd. Acquired in late 1887 by British India Steam
Navigation Company Ltd. ('India'), of London?, as Golconda. But
1 states that the vessel was completed only in Sep. 1888 &
3 says that it was completed Dec. 1887. The vessel was the
India 'flagship' for 12 years (through 1902) with service during
that period as a Boer War transport. Somehow the name Durbhunga
seems to come into the history. Not sure how. Perhaps before
Sep. 1888 when commissioned (as per Miramar)?
"Henry Highfield sailed from London for Ceylon in the "Golconda" in September, 1895 .." " I was one of four young Missionaries who left London in the British India ‘Golconda” for the East in September 1895.Two went on further for India. R.C. Oliver and I were for Ceylon and so left the ship at Colombo in the early hours of a mid-October day" (www.wesleycollege.org)
One in Duncan Haws's series, illustrating the BI fleet through line drawings and concise particulars of each vessel.Haws's drawing of the distinctive three-funnelled T class (comprising Tairea, Takliwa and Talamba) of the 1920s is typical of the detail worked into each of the 230 illustrations which cover the fleet.
Se även British India Steam Navigation Company
| "Golconda"-Reederei
Buch:
Merchant
Adventurers 1914-1918
by F A Hook. Published by A & C Black, London, 1920. War records during the first World War of P&O, British India, and their associated lines. Within weeks of the commencement of hostilities, 100 ships of the combined BI and P&O fleets had been absorbed by the British government for the war effort. Thus began one of the most torrid and yet most distinguished periods of BI's service in which 22 BI ships were lost. Golconda, British India Steam |
| "Golconda Geschichte. Zu Jeypur : im 19. Jahrhundert hat der Rajah von Golconda noch Jeypur regiert. Er hat es dann verloren an den Devi Orts-Raja von Jeypur, als die Briten wahrscheinlich seine Burg genommen und geschliffen haben; 1860 ? bei Gründung des Raj als englische Kronkolonie und Übernahme von der East India Company." (e.s.) |
(Passagerarfartyg "Golconda" (mor 3 år gammal) och morföräldrar, transport Indien - London på gamla Indienångaren "Golconda", gick på en tysk mina i utloppet av themsen (enl. mor) strax efter att båten åter var på väg till Indien. Kvinnor och barn skickades tämligen direkt till Tyskland (över Holland), morfar Hinrich Speck internerades i London, men frigavs något senare mot löftet att inte delta i kriget. Blev evangelisk präst i det för övrigt katolska Bad Bernau i Franken/Bayern som ersättare för prästen där som var uttagen som soldat.) (e.a.)
Getragen auf Adlers Flügeln Reise Indien-Golconda-GB-Kilkenny-NL-DE
U-Boot UC3 dass die Mine gelegt hatte auf die die Golconda später lief (da war es schon selbst durch eine engl. Mine versenkt worden ..)
"1916"
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| Die Schlacht am Skagerrak 31.5. - 1.6.1916: Im Skagerrak findet die größte Seeschlacht des Ersten Weltkrieges zwischen Briten und Deutschen statt. |
| Battenberg. Prinzentitel der
Nachkommen des Prinzen Alexanders von Hessen. (Battenberg, Stadt im Kreis
Frankenberg/Hessen, Sitz der Grafen von Battenberg.) Ludwig Alexander,
engl. Grossadmiral, geboren in Graz 24.5.1854, wurde 1868 engl.Seeoffizier. 1913 zum Ersten Seelord
ernannt, musste er am Anfang des 1. Weltkrieges im Okt. 1914 wegen seiner
deutschen Abstammung zuruecktreten.1917 legte er aber seine deutschen Titel
ab, erhielt den verenglischten (anglisierten) Namen Mountbatten. Seine
Tochter Luise heiratete den Kronprinzen, späteren König Gustav VI. von
Schweden in 2. Ehe. (Drottning Louise) Mountbatten, tysk-engelsk furstesläkt. Drottning Louises systerson prins Philip av Grekland var engelsk sjöofficer under 2. världskriget som Mountbatten. Louis, earl Mountbatten of Burma, 1900-1979, bror till drottning Louise av Sverige, brittisk admiral, var 1943 allierad överbefälhavare i Sydostasien. Som Indiens siste brittiske vicekung 1947 medverkade han vid självstyrelsens upprättande, och var generalguvernör i Indiska Unionen till 1948. Senare var Mountbatten NATO's överbefälhavare i medelhavet 1952-1954, förste sjölord 1955-1959 och chef för brittiska försvarsstaben 1959-1965. Från 1965 var han guvernör över Isle of Wight. |
(e.a.)
