Alliance (ship, 1860)
The Alliance was a Hanoverian brig . She ran aground in a storm on the west side of the island of Borkum on September 10, 1860 at around three o'clock in the morning under Captain Hillers laden with coal during the voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Geestemünde .
Because of the difficult conditions, the islanders made no rescue attempts, but only collected the goods that were thrown on the beach. Nine sailors, ten according to other reports, died. They were buried at the Drinkeldodenkarkhoff .
A bather reported on the circumstances of the accident in the Weser newspaper . In the same autumn, the navigation teacher Adolph Bermpohl and the lawyer Carl Kuhlmay , both working in Vegesack , called for the establishment of a private national rescue company in the weekly for Vegesack and the surrounding area and other newspapers. From the first local associations from 1862 on, the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People was formed on May 29, 1865 in Kiel .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jans Bald: Alliance - a stranding moves a nation. In: Schiffsfriedhof Emsmündung: strandings off the island of Borkum , part 1, pp. 154–159 (PDF, 3.5 MB).
- ↑ a b The sea rescue system. In: Wochenblatt der Johanniter-Ordens-Balley Brandenburg , No. 36, September 6, 1871.
- ^ Station Borkum , German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People.
- ↑ 150 years ago the "Alliance" stranded in front of Borkum , German Society for Rescue of Shipwrecked People, September 10, 2010.
- ↑ The suffering of some was a stroke of luck for others , Weser-Kurier, January 14, 2018.
- ^ Günther Oestmann: Friedrich August Adolph Bermpohl , Ostfriesische Landschaft (PDF, 28 kB).