A letter of the
office of the Foreign Liquidation Commissioner Maritime Branch, Operations
Division dated 1 March 1948 announced Bid no. 223 dealing with the sale by the USA of surplus vessels located at Bremerhaven, Germany.
The motor ship
Minerva was described as a sperrbrecher with as dimensions 110 (over all) x 15
x 6 metres
and a register tonnage of 2.446,21 gross and 1.302 net tons. In 1940 rebuilt
with a moulded breadth of 14,50
metres, depth to tweeen deck 5,90 metres and depth
to main deck 8,50 metres.
The main engine was 1 2 cylinder double acting D52 and 60/90 MAN diesel
delivering 3.050 hp via one shaft. As auxiliary engines were 3-4 cylinder MAN
04Va33 125 hp MAN diesels and 1-2 cylinder 28hp DKW motor available. She was
fitted out with 4 cargo winches. Speed 6,7 (economical)-13,3 (maximum) miles. Drinking
capacity 210 cubic
metres.
Gasoline/oil capacity 340,4 cubic metres. Built as a cargo vessel at
the Bremer Vulkan shipyard, Germany
in 1938, costs 800.000,00 US dollars. Homeport original Bremen, Germany.(1)
Source
Archive Marinestaf
1945-1948 (National Archive, The Hague),
inventory number 867
Note
1. The
Sperrbrecher No. 31. According to Peter Arndt (Deutsche Sperrbrecher 1914-1945)
was she with yard number 759 built at the shipyard Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack in
1939 for account of Neptun Dampschiffgesellschaft, Bremen, Germany, returned in
May 1948 to her original owner, sold to the Salamis Mar. Co. Ltd., Limassol,
Cyprus keeping her name and not earlier as in 17 December 1977 destined towards
Pakistan to be broken up.
