Germany (ship, 1818)

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Germany
On board the Deutschland
On board the Deutschland
Ship data
flag HamburgHamburg Hamburg German Confederation
German ConfederationGerman Confederation (war flag) 
other ship names
  • Alfred
  • Cesar Godeffroy
Ship type Freighter, frigate
Shipyard Chittagong , East India
Launch 1818
Whereabouts Removed from the shipping registers in 1858
Ship dimensions and crew
length
59.35 m ( Lüa )
width 9.80 m
measurement 853 GRT
 
crew about 191 to 230 men
Rigging and rigging
Rigging Frigate ship
Armament from 1848
  • 4 × long 32 pounder cannons
  • 10 × half-length 32 pounder cannons
  • 18 × 18-pounder half-length cannons

The Germany was built in Chittagong in 1818 as Alfred . From 1845 she went to the shipping company J.C. Godeffroy & Son and was renamed Cesar Godeffroy . At the age of 30, it was acquired by the founders of the Reichsflotte in 1848 and renamed in Germany . On October 5, 1848, Reichskommissaren Karl Moering and Daniel Friedrich Gottlob Teichert, as representatives of the provisional central authority, received her in the port of Hamburg .

In the winter of the same year, it was heavily overhauled to make it suitable for combat use. Since she should be armed with at least 32 guns, major modifications had to be carried out inside the ship. So the deck planks had to be attached under the beams in order to be able to set up the guns. This resulted in the disadvantage that the carriage wheels were between the beams and the guns could only fire straight ahead.

Frigate Germany of the Reichsflotte around 1850, painting by Lüder Arenhold (1854–1915) around 1905

Apparently only after the renovation was the Deutschland considered a bad seagoing ship, which was probably due to the renovation work. It was soon realized that this ship could not fight a battle with a Danish frigate and emerge victorious. It was then decided that it would only be used as a training ship for the cadets and for naval training. The only sea voyage that she undertook with the imperial fleet was the transfer from the Elbe to the Weser.

After the end of the first all-German navy, it was auctioned in Brake for 9,200 thalers in 1852. It was used again by a shipping company, Roessingh & Mummy, and was supposed to run on coal between England and China. In 1858 she was deleted from the ship register and is said to have served in the Chinese Navy later.

See also

literature

  • L. Arenhold: 50 years ago! The German Reichsflotte 1848-1852 in twelve pictures , Berlin 1906, reprint with an introduction by Uwe Greve Berlin 1995.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Bessell: The first 100 years of Bremerhaven ; P. 390