Charles W. Morgan
 The Charles W Morgan at Mystic Seaport
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The Charles W. Morgan is a wooden whaling sailing ship and the only surviving one of its kind in the world. At the time of its construction there were more than 730 ships of this type.
On July 21, 1841, the ran full-rigged ship on the shipyard of Jethro & Zachariah Hillman after construction of Jethro Hillmann in New Bedford in the US state of Massachusetts from the stack . It was named after the Quaker and merchant Charles Waln Morgan, its main owner. The ship had a wooden hull, the underwater hull was covered with copper plates to prevent worm damage and vegetation . The bow had a rather steep fore stem of 75 ° with a small galion and volute. The stern was designed as a Plattgatt . A golden eagle adorns it, underneath is the ship's name and home port in golden letters. In 1864, Captain Landers had a room with a double bed set up as a bedchamber in his comfortable cabin, as he always drove with his wife. The bed was made in such a way that it compensated for the movements of the ship. His successor built accommodation amidships for his wife, who was suffering from seasickness .
On September 6, 1841, the whaler's maiden voyage began via Cape Horn to the Pacific . After less than three and a half years, the sailor returned to the home port of New Bedford, loaded with 2,400 barrels (381,552 l) of whale oil and 1,09 t (2,400 lbs) of whale bones with a total value of 56,068 dollars, which covered the construction costs. In 1863 the company J. & WR Wing from New Bedford became the operating shipping company. 1867 the ship was for cost reasons to Bark umgeriggt, re-measured and re-registered. In her 80 years of service she was led by 21 captains on 37 voyages, which lasted from nine months to over five years, and employed more than 1,000 men of various nationalities as whalers, whale cookers and seamen . All of their crews (30–35 men per voyage) caught more whales than any other whaling vessel of its kind (total: 54,483 barrels (8,661,707 l) of oil and 69.37 tons of bones). In addition to the Pacific, their area of operation was the Indian Ocean and the South Atlantic . From the 14th to the 30th trip (1888-1904) she was based in San Francisco , then again in New Bedford. She survived heavy snowstorms , drift ice and a cannibal attack in the South Pacific. As a result of the decline of the whaling industry, previously one of the most important industries in New England until the early 20th century, it was on May 28, 1921 launched .
After her retirement, Whaling Enshrined, Inc. took over the ship and brought it to Round Hill in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. In November 1941 verholte the Charles W. Morgan to Mystic (Connecticut) and came in a sand bed. At the end of 1973 she was towed into the lifting dock of the Mystic Seaport Maritime Museum to restore the ship's bottom. It was launched until 1974. The museum continues the renewal of disused parts from original materials and according to original methods, as it did during their years of service, so that a large part, especially the surface hull, has been replaced over the years. She can now be viewed as a museum ship in Mystic and was entered on November 13, 1966 as a National Historic Landmark in the National Register of Historic Places . It has been a Contributing Property of the Mystic Bridge Historic District since 1979 . In keeping with its appearance from 1905, it was able to be completely restored with a baroque layer thanks to good photographic documentation.
From 2008 to 2013 the ship was overhauled and made seaworthy again. In May 2014 it embarked on its 38th voyage, which led to several historic ports on the New England coast by early August 2014.
literature
- Carl C. Cutler: The Last Whale Ship Charles W. Morgan . The American Neptune Vol. 1 (1941), pp. 391-392.
- John F. Leavitt: Charles W. Morgan . Mystic Seaport, Mystic, 1973
- Brian Lavery: Ships - 5,000 years of seafaring . Dorling Kindersley Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-8310-0763-2 , pp. 252-253
Web links
- Charles W. Morgan on bruzelius.info (English)
- Charles W. Morgan in Mystic Seaport with detail pictures (English)
- Description of Charles W. Morgan (English)
- Deck prisms on the Charles W. Morgan - details and description of the ship
- Charles W. Morgan with royal sail on the mainmast ( medium long )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mystic Seaport website ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Connecticut. National Park Service , accessed July 20, 2019.
- ↑ CHARLES W. MORGAN register in the National Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 1, 2017.
- ^ Mystic Bridge Historic District on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 1, 2017.
- ↑ 38. Journey of Charles W. Morgan
Coordinates: 41 ° 21 '43 " N , 71 ° 57' 58.5" W.