Adolf Vinnen (ship, 1892)

Adolf Vinnen

Ship data flag  German Empire United States   other ship names Somali (1892 to 1900) Alsterdamm (1900 to 1912) Mae Dollar (1922 to 1929) Pacific Carrier (1930 to 1936) Island Carrier (1936 to 1953) Crown Zellerbach No. 1 (1953 to 1971) Ship type Freighter Shipyard Russell and Company , Port Glasgow Build number 299 Launch July 25, 1892 Whereabouts Wrecked in 1971

Ship dimensions and crew length 100.55 m ( Lüa ) width 14.32 m Draft Max. 8.23 m measurement 3,537 GRT 3,336 NRT

Rigging and rigging Rigging Barque Number of masts 4th

The Adolf Vinnen was a four-masted steel barque that sailed from 1892 to 1929 for various shipowners and under different names , then was rigged to a barge and finally scrapped in 1971.

Construction and technical data

The freighter sailed on July 25, 1892 with hull number 299 at the shipyard of Russell and Company in Port Glasgow ( Scotland ) under the name Somali for the shipping company Hillsboro Ship Company Ltd. of Liverpool from the stack . The ship was 100.55 m long and 14.32 m wide, had a draft of 8.23 m and was measured at 3,537 GRT and 3,336 NRT .

history

The Hillsboro Ship Co. went into liquidation on May 21, 1900 , and the liquidator GM Steeves sold the Somali to the Hamburg shipping company Aktiengesellschaft "Alster" , founded in 1898 , which renamed the ship Alsterdamm . In 1910, the Bremen shipowner Adolf Vinnen bought the stock corporation "Alster", which was badly hit due to the worldwide sailing crisis of 1909/1910, with its entire fleet of freighters. He renamed the shipping company "Bremer Stahlhof AG" and put its fleet back on the road. In 1912 he transferred the ships of the "Bremer Stahlhof AG" to his FA Vinnen & Co. , and the Alsterdamm was renamed Adolf Vinnen .

The outbreak of World War I in August 1914 surprised the Adolf Vinnen in Mexico , and she was interned in Santa Rosalía in the Gulf of California , along with eleven other German sailing ships . The ships had delivered coke for the French Compagnie du Boléo's copper works there or were supposed to load copper ore. She stayed with the other ships until 1921 launched .

At the end of the war, the ships were in very poor condition due to years of neglected maintenance. Since the German Reich had to surrender most of its merchant fleet after the Versailles Treaty , they were finally confiscated as spoils of war, in 1921 for a total of only 350,000 US dollars to the US wood and paper company Robert Dollar & Co. from San Francisco sold. The Adolf Vinnen was named Mae Dollar in 1922 and was put back into service.

However, the tall ship era was soon over and it also became too difficult to find experienced officers and crews for them. The Mae Dollar (and two other former German ships) was therefore sold in November 1929 to the Pacific Coyle Navigation Co., a large tug- and- barge shipping company in Vancouver , Canada , which removed the rigging and the hull, now with it the name Pacific Carrier , used from 1930 as a barge to transport tree trunks. The other two German ships, once interned in Santa Rosalia and bought by Robert Dollar, had the same fate and were used by the Pacific Coyle under the names Pacific Forester and Pacific Gatherer . The shipping company ran into financial difficulties in the 1930s and sold the three boats to the Island Tug & Barge Co. in Victoria ( British Columbia ) in 1936 . The former Adolf Vinnen became the Island Carrier . The other two ships were given the new names Island Forester and Island Gatherer .

In 1953 the Island Carrier , like the Island Forester , was sold to the pulp and paper manufacturer Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd. sold and in Crown Zellerbach No. 1 renamed; the Island Forester became the Crown Zellerbach No. 2 .

In May 1969 the end of the ship seemed near. It was sold to Victoria for scrapping at Capital Iron & Metals, but then there was another reprieve. It was towed to Alaska to serve as a pier in the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline . These plans failed, however, and in October 1971 the old barge was towed to Seattle , where it was then scrapped. In the process, many parts were removed that were typical of the former tall ships and that are now in marine museums in the United States and elsewhere.

literature

• Harold D. Huycke Jr .: To Santa Rosalia: Further and Back. The Mariners Museum, 1970 (book about the twelve German tall ships and their crews interned in Santa Rosalia 1914–1921)

Web links

• http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Fourmast_ships/Somali(1892).html
• sv SOMALI ( Memento from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• [1] and photo of the Mae Dollar behind the James Griffiths cargo steamer , 1920s
• The collection A guide to the Harold D. Huycke collection, 1868-2007 HDC1600 (SAFR 22224) of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park contains in Box 39, Envelopes 74 and 75, Items No. 030 and 031, a total of 48 black and white and color photo negatives for the ship ( http://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=c8542mw9&view=dsc&style=oac4&dsc.position=7501 ).

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b} sv SOMALI ( Memento from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: London Gazette, May 25, 1900, p. 3356 (PDF; 132 kB)
3. ↑ Horst Adamietz: Tides of shipping. Bremen, 1984.
4. ↑ Among them were the Adolf Vinnen, the Helwig Vinnen , the Walküre , the Egon , the Hans , the Orotava , the Reinbek , the Schürbek , the Thielbek and the Wandsbek . ( history.navy.mil ( Memento from December 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
5. ↑ http://www.baja-web.com/sta-rosalia/st-rosal.htm
6. ↑ Photo #: NH 50725 ( Memento from September 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) and Photo #: NH 50726 ( Memento from September 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) - Photos of the interned tall ships , taken from the gunboat Vicksburg .
7. ↑ Larry Barber and the Last Voyage of the Tango ( Memento from January 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Syd C. Heal: ITB - A Family Affair , Mariner Life , June 2005. ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.1 MB)
9. ^ Syd Heal: Tugs & Barges - The passing of the log carrier. ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
10. ^ The Island Gatherer was lost on September 19, 1930 in a collision with the Second Narrow Bridge in Vancouver; the bridge could not be put back into operation until four years later.
11. ↑ The subsidiary of the US paper company Crown Zellerbach was founded in 1946 through the purchase and merging of the Canadian companies Pacific Mills at Ocean Falls, Canadian Western Cedar and Comox Logging. Crown Zellerbach itself was taken over by the James River Corporation in 1986, which in 1997 became the Fort James Corporation through the merger with Fort Howard Corporation. This in turn was bought and incorporated by Georgia-Pacific LLC in 2000 .
12. ^ Gordon Newell (Ed.): The HW McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Vol. 2: 1966-1976. Seattle Historical Society, Seattle, ISBN 978-0-8756-4220-8 ( Maritime Events of 1972 ), p. 120 cimorelli.com