CHARACTER STEIN GLOBE by HANKE Ship CORCOVADO HAPAG pre 1914 STONEWARE

Description

CHARACTER STEIN
World Globe with ship line from Hamburg to Veracruz in Mexiko
HAPAG ship Corcovado
stein made by factory Reinhold Hanke,
Höhr-Grenzhausen germany
2368 A
pre 1914
IMPRESSIVE and RARE
HEIGHT 12 cm - 4,72"
old and used.
hairline in handle. glaze chips in inlay.
(see pictures)
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The Corcovado (8,099 GRT) was built at the Germania shipyard, Kiel, for the South America / Brazil service. It was launched on December 21, 1907 and its maiden voyage from Hamburg to South America. From 1911 she was used like her sister ship to Central America. On October 19, 1912 she drove from Hamburg to New York for the first time and on March 15, 1914 for the first time from Hamburg to Philadelphia.
On April 15, 1914, she opened a new HAPAG line from New York to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea on which she was used with the two older steamers Barcelona ex Arabia (5,446 GRT) and Pisa (4,967 GRT) from 1896. When the Corcovado arrived in Constantinople, there was a large banquet on board with the US Ambassador Morgenthau. On May 20, she began her first return trip from Odessa via Batumi to Constantinople, Smyrna, Piraeus and New York. On July 26, 1914, the Corcovado reached Odessa again and was able to reach Constantinople before the outbreak of the First World War. For the duration of the war, it served as a residential ship and headquarters of the German Mediterranean division. In 1915 it was sold to Turkey and renamed Sueh. On December 6, 1918, the Allied occupying powers interned the German and Austrian nationals living in Istanbul on the Sueh before they were expelled. In 1919 the ship came to France as spoils of war and was given its old name back. In 1920 she was sold to the Italian shipping company Sicula Americana in Naples and renamed Gugliemo Pierce. The ship was first used on the Naples - South America route and sailed for the first time from Naples to New York on December 9, 1920. Her 14th and last trip to New York began on November 5, 1923. In 1926 she was chartered to the Cosulich Line, Trieste. In 1927 the Sicula sold it to Lloyd Sabaudo in Genoa, who renamed it Maria Christina. In 1930 the Portuguese Cia Colonial bought the ship and renamed it Mouzinho. The ship was now used again together with her sister ship Colonial formerly Ypiranga on the Lisbon - Angola - Mozambique route. In June and August 1941 she made two trips between Lisbon and New York. In 1954 the former Corcovado was scrapped in Savona.
Sister ship
The launch of the Ypiranga took place on August 18, 1908 at the Krupp-Germania shipyard in Kiel and on October 14, 1908, she started her maiden voyage from Hamburg to Brazil (so-called Central Brazil voyage). She had a service speed of 13 knots and space for 136 passengers in first class, 126 in second class and 1,049 between deck passengers.
The Ypiranga was very rough in heavy seas. This was remedied by installing Frahm swaying tanks at the height of the masts. The Corcovado also received this modification. After that, both ships were considered extremely stable in heavy seas.
On March 15, 1911, it was used for a round trip between Hamburg and Philadelphia and then transferred to the Hamburg-Cuba-Mexico route. Together with Fürst Bismarck, she provided the so-called express service from Hamburg via Le Havre and Southampton, Santander, La Coruña, Vigo to Havana and Veracruz (24 days). The ships then continued to Tampico and Puerto México (today Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz) and back via Veracruz. One cycle should take place in 50 to 56 days. There were freight restrictions for express service (e.g. for Cuba) in order to limit port times.
On the new route, the Ypiranga was involved in the Mexican Revolution several times. On the voyage in May 1911, the Ypiranga brought the abdicated Mexican President Porfirio Díaz into exile in La Coruña. Díaz had resigned on May 25 and fled by train to Veracruz; there he went on board with his family on May 31st.
The 26th trip of the Ypiranga in April 1914 from Hamburg to Veracruz was the most remarkable, which led to the so-called Ypiranga Incident on April 21st.  US troops who had just occupied Veracruz confiscated the ship because it had weapons and ammunition on board for the Mexican government of Victoriano Huerta, which the US government had imposed an arms embargo on. Since the USA had neither declared war on Mexico nor formally blocked the Mexican ports, they had to release the ship again, which then called at Puerto México. This port was not under the control of the Americans. The Ypiranga was able to unload its cargo and hand it over to representatives of the Huerta government.  Three months later, in July 1914, General Huerta was also overthrown and left Mexico on board the Ypiranga.