Admiral Brommy (ship, 1851)
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The Admiral Brommy was a German Bark and the first ship after Rear Admiral Karl Rudolf Brommy was named.
The ship
The barque was completed in August 1851 at the Tecklenborg shipyard in Geestemünde . Their measurement was 560 GRT , the length 40.5 m, the width 9.8 m and the draft 6.2 m.
Travel as Admiral Brommy
The first ship management was carried out by the Bremen company, Gebrüder Kulenkampff; the ship therefore carried the Bremen bacon flag , but remained the property of the Tecklenborg company. The maiden voyage under Captain Johann Georg Poppe led from Bremerhaven to Odessa (September 7th to November 3rd, 1851).
In 1852 she was used for two transports of emigrants ; once from the Weser to New Orleans (292 passengers, 57 travel days) and once from the Weser to New York (308 passengers, 34 travel days). On the way back from New York, she took on the crew of the sinking brig Jane Watson , which was on a journey from Québec to Dublin .
Travel as a meteor
On December 21, 1851 (?) The barque from Tecklenborg was sold to the Hamburg company TE & C. Vidal and renamed Meteor ; However, Poppe remained the ship's captain. In 1853 she made a trip with 326 emigrants from Southampton to Sydney . The return journey was via Batavia to Rotterdam and Hamburg.
Under the new captain Matthias Wilcken, she then made trips from Callao to Hamburg and Melbourne to Hamburg. On another trip to Melbourne, Wilcken died on January 4, 1856 after a serious illness and was buried at sea. The ship's command was taken over by chief helmsman Heinrich Helmut Poppenhagen. He apparently remained captain of the Meteor until 1858 . He was followed by CHM Adam, for whom a trip to Melbourne is documented.
Final fate
In 1860 the Meteor was sold to N. Andressen & Co. in Christiania ( Oslo ). Her first trip under the Norwegian flag was to Quebec. The captains Hansen and C. Olsen can be traced back to 1867. The further fate is unknown.
Culture of remembrance
There are two oil paintings of the barque . One shows her as Admiral Brommy and is attributed to Fritz Müller, but has no signature or year. The other picture is verifiably by L. Petersen from the year 1853 and shows it as a meteor under the Hamburg flag with the shipping company flag of Vidal.
See also
literature
- Peter-Michael Pawlik: From the Weser into the world. Volume 3: The history of the sailing ships from the Weser and Geeste and their shipyards from 1710 to 1927. Bremen - Bremerhaven - Geestemünde. Hauschild, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89757-332-1 , pp. 325, 334–336.
Footnotes
- ↑ The two paintings are reproduced in color in Pawlik: Von der Weser in die Welt. Volume 3. 2008, p. 335.