Story
This bark (4-masted) was built in 1905 by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg.
Historical Notes
This vessel was built after steam engines had largely replaced sail as an economic mode of ship propulsion. This vessel carried carrgoes until the Second World War - calling at Esquimalt BC Canada. In the Frst World War this vessel was captured by the British from the Germans. In the Second World War this vessel was captured by New Zealand from her Finnish owners. Sailing under New Zealand registry this vessel called at Vancouver in 1945 and 1946. This vessel was a storage hulk for barley in South Wales UK.
In 1951 this vessel was rebuilt in West Germany and became a sail training vessel for the merchant marine.
In 1957 this vessel sank in a hurricane 600 miles west of the Azores with only 6 survivors.
Owners & Masters
In 1905 she was owned by Ferdinand Laeisz, Germany in service in the nitrate trade.
In 1920 she was acquired by the Kingdom of Italy as a war reparation. The Italian government was unable to find a deep-water sailing ship crew, so she was laid up near Castellamare in the Gulf of Naples.
In 1924 she was owned by Ferdinand Laeisz, Germany in service in the nitrate trade.
In 1931 she was owned by the Erikson Line, Finland in the Australian wheat trade. Seized as prize of war, 3 August 1941 in New Zealand. Ten commercial voyages were made under the New Zealand flag: five to San Francisco, three to Vancouver, one to Sydney and her last voyage across the Tasman from Sydney to Wellington carrying 2700 tons of cement and 400 tons of nail wire. After the war she made one voyage from Wellington via Cape Horn to London, then Antwerp to Auckland and Wellington in 1948.
In 1948 she was owned by the Erikson Line, Finland.
In 1951 she was owned by Heinz Schliewen, Germany.
Masters
Captain H.S. Collier (1948); Captain Hermann Eggers (1955-57); Captain Johannes Diebitsch (1957);
Rebuilds
In 1951 she was rebuilt in West Germany, modernized with refurbished quarters to accommodate merchant marine trainees, fitted with an auxiliary engine, a refrigeration system for the galleys (precluding the need to carry live animals for fresh meat), modern communications equipment and water ballast tanks.
References
- Wells, Richard E. (1992)
- en.wikipedia.org ↗
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