Burhave (ship)
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The Burhave was a German sailing logger used for logger fishing for herring . The ship was lost in a severe storm in the southern North Sea in early October 1905 and was washed up as a wreck on the beach on the island of Baltrum . The crew was declared missing in the Maritime Administration of June 14, 1906 by the Brake Maritime Administration . A body found on board the wreck could not be identified.
Service time and demise
Since its delivery to Elsflether Herings-Fischerei-Aktiengesellschaft, the logger had been used to catch herring in the North Sea. The ship was insured with the Bremer Maritime Insurance Association.
On October 3, 1905, the Burhave was towed down the Weser together with other loggers from the shipping company for a fishing trip . She carried 330 tons of ballast , 130 tons of salt and 200 tons of water, coal and other cargo. The captain on board since the commissioning was: Ms. Halfeld from Ilserheide .
Due to the stormy weather, the Burhave returned there shortly after leaving Bremerhaven . On October 5, 1905, she was towed out again.
On October 8, 1905 around 4 p.m., the British steamer Nubia sighted the wreck of the Burhave at position 54 ° 17 ′ N , 6 ° 45 ′ E in the sea area off Borkum . According to statements by the captain of the Nubia and the first officer , both of whom were questioned at the Hamburg District Court , the wreck was on the port side and was constantly flooded. It was identified by its fishing code O. E. 17 (O. E. = Oldenburgisch Elsfleth). The jib boom was obviously missing.
On the night of October 14, 1905, the wreck was washed up on the northeast beach of the island of Baltrum and found that day in an upright position. The masts were broken off except for stumps. The wreck had severe damage, especially was on the bow a large opening, which was caused by the fact that the two side walls by Steven had departed. The top of the stem had broken out. The jib boom was broken out on board.
During the clean-up work, which began on October 15, 1905, the body of a man was found in the Hellegat in the crew logis . There was a pot of food in the galley and a pocket watch was found in the Hellegat that had stopped at 11 o'clock. The body could not be identified, not even by the director van der Laan of the shipping company in Elsfleth, who also visited the wreck.
The wreck was made temporarily buoyant under the supervision of the salvage expert Jan Heerma from Emden and transferred to Emden on November 30th, where a detailed investigation was carried out at the Cassens shipyard .
Causes of the downfall
The Burhave was inspected on December 4, 1905 in Emden by the Reich Commissioner for the Sea Offices Emden and Brake and the Chairman of the Sea Office Brake. The Maritime Administration hearing took place on June 14, 1906 in Brake.
It was found that at the time of the Burhave's sinking , October 6, 7 or 8, 1905, the weather in the sea area in question was bad . This emerged from the logbook records of the loggers Frieda and Grete , who had also left Elsfleth with the Burhave . The information provided by the logger leaders was confirmed by the officers of the Nubia .
The experts considered various possibilities for the sinking of the Burhave ; such a construction defect in the area of the Stevens or the collision with a drifting wreck. Due to the fact that there was still a man in the lodgings, it was generally assumed that the ship must have been turned over very quickly, otherwise the man would have left the lodgings in good time.
In its verdict, the Maritime Administration did not assume a collision with another vessel or wreck, but rather a design flaw in the area of the Stevens, due to an outdated design . Ultimately, the cause of the accident remained unknown.
What was certain, however, was that the entire crew was missing, since no sign of life from a crew member had arrived at the time of the Maritime Administration's negotiation, i.e. a good eight months after the accident.
List of missing crew members
- Captain Ms. Halfeld, b. October 11, 1865 Ilserheide,
- Bestmann Ernst HC Nahrwold from Loh, b. October 7, 1863 Gorspenwahlsen,
- Sailor Ernst Karl Dietrich Stahlhut from Ilserheide, b. February 2, 1852 Raderhorst,
- Sailor Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Jacket, b. May 7, 1886 in Windheim ,
- Sailor Ernst Heinrich Christian Nahrwold as Lahde, b. April 20, 1878 in Gorspenwahlsen,
- Sailor Wilhelm Denker, b. November 5, 1874 Quetzen,
- Sailor Conrad Heinrich Friedrich Bleeke from Ilserheide, b. March 1, 1865 in Raderhorst,
- Sailor Carl Konrad Diedrich Götte from Wiedensahl , b. August 14, 1881 in Windheim,
- Seaman Richard Scholinsky from Magdeburg ,
- Leichtmatrose Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Sudmeyer born April 21, 1888 Ilserheide,
- Light seaman Friedrich Kramer from Windheim, b. May 23, 1887 in Lahde,
- Youngest Carl Christian Stahlhut from Ilserheide, b. December 15, 1889 in Lahde,
- Reepschießer Konrad Diedrich Christian Meier from Jössen, b. April 7, 1891 Raderhorst
- Collector Heinrich Georg Peter Röpke from Bremerhaven, b. December 17, 1890 in Lüdringevorth.
Final fate
It is not known whether the burhave was repaired and put back into service.
literature
- Chapter: Logger "Burhave" from Elsfleth. Found as a wreck. Seeamt Brake, June 14, 1906 . In: Reichsamt des Innern (Ed.): Decisions of the Ober-Seeamt and the Maritime Offices of the German Reich , Volume 17. Hamburg 1908, pp. 543-560.
- Manfred Scheller: The herring catchers from the Middle Weser. The story of an almost forgotten inland deep-sea fishing island reflected in the development of the large German herring fishery . Board of Trustees of the Heimat- und Herringfangermuseum, Heimsen 1999.
- Hermann Banser: Herring catcher from Schaumburg-Lippe and the area of the Central Weser . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1998.