Admiral Brommy (ship, 1860)
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The Admiral Brommy was a German Bark and the second ship of Rear Admiral Karl Rudolf Brommy was named.
The ship
She ran on 3 September 1860 the shipyard of the Brothers Gross in Hammelwarden today Brake / Unterweser , from the stack , and was, by one of the partners of the shipyard, Oltmann Edward Gross in Bremerhaven bereedert and therefore led the Bremer bacon flag . The naming after Brommy was probably due to the fact that the sister of the three partners, Hascheline Auguste Caroline Brommy, nee. Gross, Brommy's wife or widow , whose husband passed away earlier this year.
to travel
The maiden voyage under Captain Johann Carl Meyer led with 179 passengers from the Weser to Baltimore . Already in 1862 the barque was sold to the Bremen company Albers & Claussen and renamed America . In March 1863 she had to turn back on the North Atlantic during a trip to the United States due to a storm damage and call Queenstown as a port of emergency . At least one life had been lost in the storm. The destination New York was therefore only reached after 116 days. In the autumn of 1863, Captain Georg Köper took over the ship and ran it for a good 15 years. The barque was mainly active in the transport of emigrants , but made a four-year voyage from 1863 to 1867 during which it did not call at any German port. Nevertheless, she returned to Bremerhaven with the same crew, without a man having signed off.
Rescues from distress
In 1868 the America Fayal had to call because on December 25th she had rescued the crew of the British Bark Cuthberts from Auld from distress , which in turn had rescued the crew of the Canadian sailing ship Hibernia , coming from Québec , from distress. Both ships had been driven on their logs and then abandoned. The crew and the castaways of the Cuthbert had drifted on the wreck for 13 days . A total of 39 people were landed in Fayal. In recognition of his accomplishments and the rescue of British sailors, Köper received a sextant from the British government . Further emigration trips were carried out until 1872.
On July 18, 1874, on a trip to New York, she collided with an unknown barque in position D , with the America 's foremast jumping and the unknown ship losing its mainmast .
sale
In 1882 she was sold to Norway to the Wilhelm Wilhelmsen shipping company in Tønsberg , which changed the ship's name in America . In 1890 it was sold to H. Mathiesen in Fredrikstad , in 1894 to L. Schübeler, ibid. It was scrapped in January 1900. She had reached a remarkable age for a large wooden sailing ship.
See also
literature
- Peter-Michael Pawlik: From the Weser into the world. Volume 2: The history of the sailing ships from Weser and Hunte and their shipyards from 1790 to 1926. Elsfleth - Brake - Oldenburg. Hauschild, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-89757-150-1 , pp. 282–284, with a photograph as America , date and location unknown.