Cesar Godeffroy (ship, 1851)

Cesar Godeffroy

Advert for a ride from Adelaide to Sydney on the barque Cesar Godeffroy in The South Australian Register , January 9, 1854

Ship data flag  Hamburg other ship names Elise Rübcke from 1854 Ship type Barque Owner Johan Cesar Godeffroy 1851–1854 Rübcke (Hamburg) from 1854 Shipping company Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Son 1851–1854 Shipyard Godeffroy's shipyards, Reiherstieg Build number 3 Launch 1851

Others Registration numbers * Marryat code : 2-7369

The Cesar Godeffroy was a barque that was built near Hamburg in 1851 .

Ship dimensions

In the Hamburg Bielbrief from April 7, 1851 the following dimensions are given for the Cesar Godeffroy :

• Length over Kiel = 137.10 hamburger feet (39.2 m)
• Largest width = 35.80 hamburger feet (10.2 m)
• Height (belly board to decking) = 19.80 hamburger feet (5.7 m)
• Carrying capacity = 313 Hamburg commercial loads

history

Advertisement for the liner shipping of Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Son, advertisement in the South Australian newspaper , January 6, 1865

The Cesar Godeffroy was built at the Reiherstieg shipyard under the direction of Joachim Eduard von Somm . It was launched in 1851 with hull number 3. The owner was the trading house Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Son. The ship was named after the Hamburg merchant Johan Cesar Godeffroy , who ran the company. As part of a larger construction series, the prerequisites for a regular line service by Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Son to Australia, Chile and California. The Cesar Godeffroy was mainly used to transport emigrants to Adelaide and Sydney . A passenger wrote a travelogue about a trip to Sydney in 1852, which was published in a book. On December 28, 1854, the barque was sold to Johann Christian Rübcke (Hamburg) and now drove as Elise Rübcke .

Captains

• 1852–1853 Heinrich Behn
• 1853-1854 J. Meyer

Rides

Trips to Australia and South America were made by ship from Hamburg.

Departures and arrivals

date	event	place	comment	source
April 28, 1851	Departure	Hamburg	Transport of soldiers to Brazil
May 5, 1851	Departure	Cuxhaven	Kpt. Behn, to RioJaneiro
June 21, 1851	Arrivals	Rio de Janeiro
August 10, 1852	Departure	Hamburg	Ship is leaving for Sydney
Stops on the journey from Hamburg to Sydney August 10, 1852 Stay in Stade ; Ship's doctor and passengers get on August 13, 1852 Stay in Glückstadt August 15, 1852 Stay in Cuxhaven ; a death August 20, 1852 The ship passes Dover August 21, 1852 The Isle of Wight will be passed August 23, 1852 The ship leaves the English Channel at Lizard Point September 7, 1852 The ship passes Madeira September 14, 1852 The Cape Verde Islands will be passed September 29, 1852 The equator is crossed October 10, 1852 The Tropic of Capricorn is reached November 3, 1852 Passing the Crozet Islands a short distance away December 8, 1852 Mainland Australia comes into view at Cap Howe and Green-Cap December 9, 1852 The dromedary mount is recognized during land observation December 10, 1852 Point perpendiculair is passed
December 11, 1852	Arrivals	Sydney
January 12, 1853	Departure	Sydney	Departure to Batavia
October 5, 1853	Departure	Hamburg
January 2, 1854	Arrivals	Adelaide
January 9, 1854	Departure	Adelaide	Ready to sail to Sydney
January 25, 1854	Arrivals	Sydney
February 22, 1854	Departure	Sydney	Ship is leaving for Callao

Ships of the same name

Other ships sailed as Cesar Godeffroy : from 1845 the full ship Alfred , built in 1818, and two barges each from the launch, built in 1855 and built in 1873 .

Ships from Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Son

→ Main article : Line service of Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Son

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Captain Marryat, GB Richardson: The Universal Code of Signals . JM Richardson, London 1854, Part III. Merchant Vessels.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Walter Kresse: Seagoing ship directory of the Hamburg shipping companies 1824–1888 . Part 1. Museum of Hamburg History, Hamburg 1969, p. 167 .
3. ^ Reiherstieg shipyards and machine works, Hamburg . In: Historisch-biographische Blätter . tape  7 , no. 9 . Eckstein's Biographischer Verlag, Berlin 1905 ( online ).
4. ^ Armin Clasen: The ships of the Chile emigration via Hamburg 1850–1875 and the von Somm shipbuilding family . In: Journal for Low German Family Studies . 38th year, no. 1 . Hamburg January 1963, p. 6–7 ( online [PDF]).
5. ↑ Birgit Scheps: The sold museum: The South Sea enterprises of the trading house Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Sohn, Hamburg, and the “Museum Godeffroy” collections . (Treatises of the Natural Science Association in Hamburg, (NF) 40.) Goecke & Evers, Keltern-Weiler 2005, p. 15.
6. ^ ^{A b c d} Sea voyage diary from Hamburg to Sydney in Australia . In: Guide to and in Australia . Publishing Comptoir, Potsdam 1854.
7. ↑ Announcement , The Commission for Ship Papers, in: Hamburgische Börsen-Halle , February 6, 1856, page 1 ( digitized version )
8. ↑ ^{a b} Germany . Hamburg. In: Allgemeine Zeitung . No.  239 . Munich August 27, 1851, p. 3810 ( online ).
9. ↑ Arrived u. departed ships. In: Börsen-Halle (Hamburgische Abend-Zeitung). May 5, 1851, p. 1, ( digitized version )
10. ^ Mary-Anne Warner: CAESAR GODEFFROY ( English ) In: Mariners and ships in Australian Waters . Archived from the original on June 22, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 16, 2014. 
11. ↑ DEPARTURES (English) . In: The Sydney Morning Herald , January 13, 1853, p. 2.  
12. ↑ According to the arrived u. departed ships in Börsen-Halle, Hamburgische Abend-Zeitung of April 25, 1853, page 2 (Captain Behn)
13. ↑ ^{a b} ARRIVED (English) . In: The South Australian Register , January 3, 1854, p. 2.  
14. ↑ CLEARED OUT (English) . In: The South Australian Register , January 10, 1854, p. 2.  
15. ^ Mary-Anne Warner: CAESAR GODEFFROY ( English ) In: Mariners and ships in Australian Waters . Archived from the original on June 22, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 16, 2014. 
16. ↑ DEPARTURES (English) . In: The Sydney Morning Herald , February 23, 1853, p. 4.