Artensis (ship, 1885)

Artensis

Ship data flag  Norway other ship names Celtic Chief (1885-1911) Ship type Freighter Shipyard Archibald McMillan & Son, Dumbarton Build number 267 Launch October 27, 1885 Whereabouts Sunk on July 19, 1917

Ship dimensions and crew length 81.3 m ( Lüa ) width 12.04 m Draft Max. 6.8 m displacement 2600  t measurement 1,789 GRT / 1,709 NRT

Rigging and rigging Rigging Full ship Number of masts 3

The Artensis was a Norwegian sailing ship that was sunk by a German submarine during World War I.

Construction and technical data

The ship, a three-mast full-rigged ship with steel hull , ran on 27 October 1885 the hull number 267 at Archibald McMillan & Son in Dumbarton on the Firth of Clyde in Scotland as Celtic Chief for the shipping company Parry Jones & Co. in Liverpool from the stack . It was 81.3 m long and 12.04 m wide, had a draft of 6.8 m , and measured 1,789 GRT and 1,709 NRT. The water displacement was 2,600 tons .

fate

In 1888 the Celtic Chief was sold to R. Hughes-Jones & Co. in Liverpool. In April 1911 there was another sale, this time to Skibs-A / S Artensis (Sigurd Bruusgaard) in Drammen ( Norway ), and the ship was named Artensis .

On June 8, 1916, the Artensis landed in thick fog in front of Seaside Park, New Jersey , at position 39 ° 55 ′ 39 ″  N , 74 ° 4 ′ 17.4 ″  W , and the crew had to be removed from the people for a few kilometers Coast Guard Station 110 Island Beach further south can be brought ashore with trouser buoys . The ship was hardly damaged, however, and was towed free ten days later. Since the crew was too superstitious to go back on board, a replacement crew had to be hired in New York to get the ship afloat again.

On July 19, 1917, the Artensis , which was under ballast on the journey from Glasgow to Hampton Roads in Virginia ( United States ), was applied west of Ireland by the German submarine U 87 under Lieutenant Rudolf Schneider and was at position 54 ° 19 '12 "  N , 11 ° 4' 12"  W sunk.

Web links

• List of failed ships 1917 (no.)
• Artensis, at www.wrecksite.eu
• Artensis / Celtic Chief at Scottish Built Ships, with photos

Footnotes

1. ↑ The shipping company later had two other ships of this name: from 1924 to 1934 the steam cargo ship Artensis , built in 1921 and scrapped in 1962 , and from 1959 to 1968 the motor ship Artensis, scrapped in 1987/88 .
2. ↑ Artensis in trouble 1916 (photo from 1916)
3. ↑ Artensis stranded at New Jersey: Photo ( Memento from April 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
4. ↑ http://newspaperarchive.com/racine-journal-news/1916-06-08/

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