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Sunadele assumably in Hamburg in September 1952, Migros archives
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 Switzerland
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| Name: | Adele respectively Sunadele |
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| Port of registry: |
 Basel |
| Ordered: | Reederei Zürich AG |
| Builder: | H. C. Stülcken Sohn, Hamburg, Germany |
| Cost: | 6,500,000 CHF |
| Yard number: | 808 |
| Laid down: | November 1951 |
| Launched: | 15 July 1952 |
| Christened: | Adele Duttweiler |
| In service: | 11 September 1952 |
| Out of service: | 8 August 1980 |
| Renamed: | Livorno (1966) |
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| Fate: | scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Cargo ship |
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| Length: | 117.53 m (385.60 ft) |
| Beam: | 16.8 m (55.12 ft) |
| Draught: | 8.1 m (26.57 ft) |
| Installed power: | 5,600 hp (4,200 kW) |
| Propulsion: | Sulzer 8SD72-CRDA eight-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine |
| Speed: | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h) normal, 17.75 knots (32.87 km/h) knots maximal |
| Capacity: | 12 passengers |
| Crew: | 38 |
Adele was a Swiss cargo ship, later the merchant ship Sunadele. Initiated by Gottlieb Duttweiler and named after Adele Duttweiler, she served in the Merchant Marine of Switzerland.
In Winter 1943 Gottlieb Duttweiler and the Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund, Zürich, withdrew from the shipping company Maritime Suisse S.A. originally planned to establish the Merchant Marine of Switzerland during World War II. Nevertheless, the creation of a shipping company with initially three Victory and three Liberty ships, sailing on a regular liner service between the USA and the Mediterranean Sea, never was realized. The shipping company Reederei Zürich AG was founded on 26 July 1951, and immediately two fast freighters were ordered from the shipyard H. C. Stülcken, Hamburg: Adele, named after Duttweiler's wife Adele Duttweiler, and Amelia, named after Göner's wife Amelia Göhner. Each unit was valued to 5,0 Mio. DM without the main engines which were ordered separately from Gebrüder Sulzer, Winterthur, for a total price of 3,75 Mio. CHF. The Swiss government financed 75% of the building costs under the terms, that during a crisis situation, the vessels would be immediately put at the government's disposal. Some of the Swiss parliamentarians, but also Swiss news papers were disturbed about the English prefix SUN in the name of a Swiss ship, and other were indignant with the charterers. In February 1966 the time charter of SUNADELE with Saguenay was terminated and later sold; SUNAMELIA remained in the Saguenay charter until 31 December 1968 until she was sold in February 1970.
The Zürich-based Swiss Reederei Zürich AG ordered at the H. C. Stülcken Sohn shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, a cargo ship which was built under hull Number 808, being so far the biggest vessel Stülcken shipyard had built after the World War II. The building supervision and the technical management was allocated to C. Clausen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Launched in Hamburg on 15 July 1952, the ship was christened "ADELE" by Adele Duttweiler, the wife of Gottlieb Duttweiler who was the founder and president of the shipping company that was provided by the Swiss retailer Migros. Adele was delivered to the owners on 11 September 1952, and she was registered as official Number 047, call sign HBFL, under Swiss flag with the charter name "SUNADELE".
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