Cargo ship Cap San Diego steps
Following our visit to the 1896 three-masted barque Rickmer Rickers, we fast-forwarded 65 years to the 1961 general cargo ship Cap San Diego, another ship museum at the port of Hamburg.
Even though I'm not an engineer, I've always been fascinated by transportation and logistics, and seeing a cargo ship's engine room, cargo holds, bridge and living quarters was interesting.
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In December 1961, the Hamburg-Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft Eggert & Amsinck launched the brand-new general cargo ship cap San Diego. The vessel was built by Deutsche Werft AG right in Hamburg-Finkenwerder.
During its first voyage om 1962. Cap San Diego sailed to Montreal, Baltimore, New York, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santos, Antwerp, Rotterdam and Bremen before returning to Hamburg, each such round trip takes about 60 days. However, just a few years after its launch, marine bulk cargo transportation, or more specifically, break-bulk cargo transportation, was already rapid moving to the more efficient containerization, and general cargo ships like Cap San Diego were becoming obsolete rapidly.
By 1986, the ship was reaching the end of her useful life and scheduled to be broken up and scrapped. At that point, The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg decided to buy the Hamburg-built ship and restored her to a floating museum that we see today.
Cargo ship Cap San Diego steps
Following our visit to the 1896 three-masted barque Rickmer Rickers, we fast-forwarded 65 years to the 1961 general cargo ship Cap San Diego, another ship museum at the port of Hamburg.
Even though I'm not an engineer, I've always been fascinated by transportation and logistics, and seeing a cargo ship's engine room, cargo holds, bridge and living quarters was interesting.
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In December 1961, the Hamburg-Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft Eggert & Amsinck launched the brand-new general cargo ship cap San Diego. The vessel was built by Deutsche Werft AG right in Hamburg-Finkenwerder.
During its first voyage om 1962. Cap San Diego sailed to Montreal, Baltimore, New York, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santos, Antwerp, Rotterdam and Bremen before returning to Hamburg, each such round trip takes about 60 days. However, just a few years after its launch, marine bulk cargo transportation, or more specifically, break-bulk cargo transportation, was already rapid moving to the more efficient containerization, and general cargo ships like Cap San Diego were becoming obsolete rapidly.
By 1986, the ship was reaching the end of her useful life and scheduled to be broken up and scrapped. At that point, The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg decided to buy the Hamburg-built ship and restored her to a floating museum that we see today.