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a European and an Asian ship. The
former will have a crew of about 30
on a type ‘36’ ship, possibly including
four females, the latter carries 60
crew. There are many more examples
of this nature. However, economies
of series construction can even be
achieved in accommodation. We
use standardised cabin designs and
standardised furniture, enabling us
to pre-fabricate in our workshop
whilst retaining the necessary
flexibility of responding to owners’
special requirements. What remains
standardised throughout are such
items as compartmentation of the
hull and of the double bottom, hatch
sizes, and design and position of
cargo handling gear. This also applies
to the ship design of which there are
four varieties: Type ‘36’ of 134m lpp
and Type ‘36L’ of 139.25m lpp, either
with or without a bulbous bow.”
In the early 1970s Oldendorff owned a
good selection of 15,000 tonners: three
each German Liberty Replacements,
SD14s and Type ’36L’s in addition to
the older tweendeckers CATHARINA
OLDENDORFF, JOHANNA OLDENDORFF,
BIRTE OLDENDORFF and HELGA
OLDENDORFF, and bringing up the rear,
two 10,000 tonners. The latter ships
were sold off in the course of the next
few years. Egon Oldendorff ordered
a Trampko type freighter in 1970 with
the object of showing a presence in the
7/8,000 tdw class. Trampko type ships
had been jointly designed and were
being built by Lübeck shipbuilders LMG/
Orenstein + Koppel and SchlichtingWerft and had turned out to be a
modest financial success for owners
and shipbuilders alike. Delivered on 22
February 1971 as the GEBE OLDENDORFF
(2) she was re-named the TERESEPOLIS
for the duration of a period timecharter.
A typical feature of this ship as also of
the Type ’36L’ and the German Liberty
Replacements was the Flender System
pair of heavy derrick posts positioned
between the two rear hatches. The posts
joined by a cross beam characterised
the ships’ appearance and permitted
the 60- tonnes derrick to slew through
and to serve both hatches.
Heavy-duty automated cargo handling gear also suited
for container handling was an outstanding feature of the
German Multi-purpose Freighter and of Type 36L
mv CAROLINE OLDENDORFF, one of three Oldendorff ships of the
‘German Multi-purpose Freighter/German Liberty Replacement’ type
jointly developed and marketed by three German shipyards, Bremer
Vulkan, Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft and Rickmers Werft
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