Amphitrite (ship, 1887)
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The Amphitrite is a three-masted gaff schooner built in wood in Gosport (Great Britain) from 1884 to 1887 . The 44 m long ship is known as the oldest seagoing sailing yacht in the world. On regattas she competed against the meteor of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Today the Amphitrite sails under the flag of the Clipper - Deutsches Jugendwerk zur See eV association. The sense and purpose is to bring traditional seafaring closer to young people in particular, but also to all other interested parties. The shipping area is the Baltic Sea in the area of the German, Danish, Swedish and Polish coastal waters. For the all-winter maintenance work ("winter work"), which is carried out mainly on a voluntary basis, the ship is usually moored at Ring-Andersen in Svendborg , Denmark, or partly in the Harburg inland port . Home port is Bremen.
history
The Amphitrite , named after the mythological sea nymph , was built from 1884 to 1887 (launched in November 1887) in Gosport by Camper & Nicholsons in teak on oak as a two-masted racing schooner . Originally rigged as a two-master , she probably had more than 1,300 m² of sail area . Her first owner, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Donald McGregor from Somerset in Great Britain, used the ship as a racing yacht. In 1888 McGregor became a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron (RYS) in Cowes. During the regattas the Amphitrite was photographed several times by the famous sailing photographer Frank Beken (from Cowes) .
In 1893 the ship became the property of Sir Frederick Willis from London. From 1894 to 1897, the Amphitrite sailed in several regattas, such as the Jubilee Cup in 1894. In 1897, she won the "Extra Prize for English cruiser yachts" at the Kieler Woche . Two years later she took part in the Dover-Helgoland Regatta under her new owner Alfred Henry Littleton from London.
In the following years the ship changed owner and name several times: When she was taken over by her next owner, A. Spence Hitchman from Dorset , in 1900 , she was renamed Dolores . In 1906 it passed to Henry Ulick Lascelles (Fifth Earl of Harewood, Leeds) and in 1911 to George Hamilton Fletcher from Dorset, who renamed it Joyfarer . At the next change of ownership, to Henry Peech from London, it was given the name Hinemoa . In the next five years several changes were made to the ship, such as electrical lighting and deck superstructures in steel on the foredeck ( galley ) and in wood on the aft deck ; the ship also received an engine for the first time in 1915 (two eight-cylinder paraffin engines). In 1919 the ship went to Lancelot W. Dent from London, who installed a radio system ( callsign KMRS).
In 1921 Lieutenant Älla Molgneux Berkeley Gage from Falmouth became the new owner, who renamed the ship back to Amphitrite the following year and in 1925 exchanged the machine for two four-cylinder paraffin engines. After a short time under the owners, Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Jocelyn Gare (Sixth Earl of Arran, Cornwall ) from 1937 and Lieutenant Colonel AG Arundel Evans from Dartmouth (from 1937), the ship became the property of the British Admiralty in 1942. In the same year, after the rigging was removed, it was used as a balloon barrier in the Sound of Plymouth to protect the harbor from low- flying aircraft until it was laid up in 1944 at Chadder Blancs Yard in Salcombe.
After the war, the Amphitrite was put up for sale by the British Admiralty in 1946 and purchased by Geoffrey Blundell of Salcombe. A year later it went to Colonel WF Charter (Salcombe), who restored it at the Camper & Nicholson shipyard, among others. Without the rig having been replaced, the yacht was used from 1950 to 1955 as the residence of the Charter family in the roadstead off Salcombe.
When she was subsequently transferred from Intermar Trading Co. Ltd. (Salcombe), she was rigged to a three-masted gaff schooner. From 1957 she was mainly used in the Mediterranean, first under the owner Clive PB Stevenson (Salcombe) and from 1958 under the Swedish owner Bertil Harding. In 1964 the ship became the property of John Lennart Ostermann, who lived in Stockholm and San Remo . It was renamed Amphitrite af Stockholm , received two new engines (two Volvo Penta with 95 HP (70 kW) each) and was converted into a three-masted barkentine . After only two years there was a new owner change ( François Spoerry from Mulhouse ). Either at this point in time or three years later when Horst Film GmbH & Co. KG from Berlin took over the yacht, the name was changed back to Amphitrite . By 1971 the company had the yacht extensively renovated and expanded in preparation for film use. This included an aft ("rear") extension to the deckhouse, which was equipped with modern instruments as a navigation room, the installation of a new machine (two Mercedes six-cylinder diesel engines OM 355 with 230 hp (169 kW) each) and generators (powered of two Mercedes six-cylinder OM 352 diesel engines , each with 110 PS (81 kW) diesel engine output and 61 PS (45 kW ) electrical output each .) as well as air conditioning, showers, dishwashers, freezers etc. (none of them on board today). In addition, the rig and sails were partially renewed, after which the sail area was around 750 square meters. In 1971 the "Amphitrite" -Schiffahrts-KG from Berlin took over the ship and used the Amphitrite until 1972 for the 26-part television series Graf Luckner (with Heinz Weiss in the leading role) and the television film The Secret of Mary Celeste (with Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff in the main role).
Subsequently, the Amphitrite was no longer used as a film ship. In 1973 the association Clipper - Deutsches Jugendwerk zur See eV (Clipper DJS) became interested in the three-master and transferred it to Germany. During the voyage, the Amphitrite got into a strong mistral and suffered severe damage, including the foremast (foremast) broke. The association acquired the ship in 1974 for 500,000 German marks and had it repaired by Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven until 1976 (since then the foremast has been made of steel) and converted for operation with young crews. For this purpose, the Amphitrite was rigged again as a three-masted gaff schooner so that the rig can be operated completely from the deck; only the wide jib , which can be set in addition especially in aft winds, has since then still required the shrouds to be boarded up. The sail area was reduced to 600 square meters. In addition, a large number of additional berths were built in, toilets were installed in the deckhouse on the forecastle and a galley was set up in the aft deckhouse. On May 1, 1976, the three-master ran out on its first trip for Clipper.
Since then, the Amphitrite has been sailing for Clipper DJS, the main area of operation is the German and Danish Baltic Sea, with a focus on the Danish South Sea . During this time the gaff schooner took part in regattas of the Sail Training Association ( Tall Ships' Races ) and in the Hanse Sail . From winter 2004 to spring 2006, the Amphitrite in Hamburg-Harburg and in the dock of the Ring-Andersen shipyard in Svendborg, Denmark , was overhauled for a six-figure sum financed by donations and loans, including the jib boom and the front deckhouse, as well as the bunks in the Fore ship were renewed. Since then, the Amphitrite has been sailing the Baltic Sea again from May to October and spends some of its winter berths in the Harburg inland port and in Svendborg in Denmark. She has been taking part in the Kieler Woche every year since 2007 and has also been there since 2009 during the Hamburg port birthday , where she can often be viewed (free of charge) these days - mostly in the Sandtorhafen near the Elbphilharmonie . In 2012 the club celebrated its 125th birthday.
literature
- Ewald Kruse (1990). Amphitrite . Herford: Koehler. ISBN 3782204484 .
- Theo-Peter Koesling (2012). Amphitrite - one of the oldest sailing yachts in the world . Maritime press. ISBN 9783954270675
- Ulrich Berns: On the trail of the sea devil. Graf Luckner on German television , Herford (Koehler) 1971. ISBN 3-7822-0053-5
Remarks
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i K. Hupfer's website ( Memento from May 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), with information based on the book Amphitrite by Ewald Kruse
- ↑ Portrait of the Amphitrite on the Clipper DJS website ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed May 14, 2007)
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↑ K. Hupfers: History of the "Amphitrite" ( Memento from May 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
according to other, unconfirmed information, the ship was said to have been called Dolores as early as 1898 : subsequent inscription of an old picture on a forum by Clipper DJS ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed May 15, 2007) -
↑ On K. Hupfer's website the renaming was listed twice without comment. K. Hupfer's website
http://www.segelschiff-amphitrite.de/amphitrite_geschichte.html( memento from May 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (page no longer exists since 2006) - ↑ (June 5, 2006) Three-master “Amphitrite” again for the CLIPPER DJS auf See association. seglermagazin.de ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed May 15, 2007)
Web links
- Clipper DJS eV
- Portrait of the ship on the side tallship fan
- Portrait of the ship and various photos
- For the 125th birthday of Amphitrite
- TV movie "The Mystery of the Mary Celeste" (1972) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 26-part television series "Graf Luckner" (1973) in the Internet Movie Database (English)