Candace (ship)
.JPG) Painting of Candace
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The Candace , also Queen Kandaze , Kandaze or Candaze , was a mission ship of the Hermannsburg Mission , with which its own missionaries were sent to their work areas in Ethiopia .
Construction and description
The ship at the time was built in Harburg based shipyard Renk. The oak wood used for the construction came from Bröckel near Celle . The initiator of the shipbuilding was the founder of the Hermannsburg Mission, Ludwig Harms , who was actively supported by Harburg harbor master Stürye. Among other things, Stürye made contact with the shipyard. The Hamburg merchant Nagel also excelled in building the ship. Harms found the words of praise for both of them:
“ He (God) steered the Stürye to Harburg for the ship's sake and hammered the nail in Hamburg. "
On the bow was the figurehead of the "black queen" Kadoze, after whom the ship was named. The name is derived from the Ethiopian queen according to Acts 8:27 LUT . Since shipping was dominated by the English language, the English spelling Candace was used for the ship's name .
Rides
The launch took place on Tuesday, August 27, 1853. Around 400 men and women from Hermannsburg had come to Harburg with a special train especially for the launch. Just two months later, on October 28, 1853, the Candace set sail on her maiden voyage with some missionaries and theologians , as well as farmers and craftsmen known as "colonists". With the help of the colonists, they wanted to live largely self-sufficient in the foreign countries. As a rule, there was one colonist for every missionary. The Candace circumnavigated the Cape of Good Hope and reached the coast of Zanzibar . But the resident Muslim imam and sultan , who oversaw the entire coast of East Africa , refused the Hermannsburgs permission to enter the mainland. He evidently feared that the presence of the missionaries would lead to difficulties with the lively and lucrative slave trade of his subjects. Therefore, the Candace sailed back south and landed on January 21, 1854, initially in Cape Town . After that she went on to Port Natal (now Harbor Durban ) in the then British colony of Natal on the territory of today's South Africa , where the missionaries left the ship and consequently their extensive missionary work among the Zulu and further inland temporarily in the Tswana recordings .
An important base for them was a place in the mountains of Natal, which belonged to the English colony of Natal and which they named Hermannsburg after their German place of dispatch. So South Africa became the main area of work for the Hermannsburg Mission. Two years after her departure, in September 1855, the Candace returned to Hamburg for the first time. The missionary society was only able to start missionary work in Ethiopia in 1927.
After the failure of the mission in Ethiopia, the ship lost its original purpose and was instead used as an emigration ship. The establishment of Hermannsburg in Australia and Hermannsburg in South Africa go back to the Candace emigrants and the connection with Hermannsburg .
During the lifetime of Ludwig Harms, the founder of the Hermannsburg Mission, the Candace made nine trips, and another six after his death. The ship remained in service until 1875 and was then sold for 5000 thalers "because of old age".
A model of the ship is still in the St. Peter-Paul-Kirche in Hermannsburg today. Another model is in the "Ludwig Harms House" in Hermannsburg. The ship's original pennant can also be viewed there as part of the " Candace - Mission possible " exhibition .
Others
The ship achieved new literary fame through the novel “ The School of Atheists ” by the German writer Arno Schmidt , in which it plays a key role.
Footnotes
- ↑ Wolfgang Proske: Botswana and the beginnings of the Hermannsburg mission. Frankfurt / M., Bern, New York, Paris, 1989. (Short review on archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link accordingly Instructions and then remove this notice. )
