The barque was built at a time when the end of sailing was already in sight. At that time, the shipowners assessed the situation in such a way that sailing cargo ships would only be worthwhile if they could be used as a kind of floating warehouse, in which the greatest possible amount of goods could be stored while the goods were also moving from one place to another moved. Two decades later, they realized this assessment had been a mistake, and new ships were being built that combined cargo capacity with speed. During the floating tank period, however, steam shipping had already consolidated its role in world trade. The chance that fast sailing cargo ships could assert themselves on the tramp shipping market was wasted. The Bremen was not yet one of the extreme floating tanks ; it was built a little too early for that.
history
The ship, built in France, was trading in nitrate under the name René and was sold to the Hamburg shipping company Hans Heinrich Schmidt in 1923. After the sale it was renamed Lisbeth . In 1926 it was again sold to the Bremer Segelschiffsreederei Seefahrt and converted for use as a freight training ship in the Joh. C. Tecklenborg shipyard in Geestemünde . On April 10, 1926, under Captain Lehmberg, Bremen set out from Cardiff to the west coast of South America. Ship management and inspection were carried out by Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen . In 1928, Captain Walther von Zatorski took over the ship. The Bremen was mainly used in the saltpeter voyage to Chile.
As a result of the global economic crisis, the ship was decommissioned in 1930 and launched in the Kaiserhafen of Bremerhaven. In 1931 the decision was made to sell it to the Hamburg company Wilhelm Ritscher to be scrapped, but in autumn 1932 the ship was still in Bremerhaven. There it was used as a location for the film The Ship Without a Harbor with the then famous film actor Harry Piel in the lead role.
literature
Axel Herbschleb: From ship's boy to submarine commander - a documentary about the life of his father Karl-Heinz Herbschleb . Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88189-778-5 .
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