Dreyer shipyard
The Dreyer shipyard was a shipyard in Hamburg , the 1840 by the shipbuilders Ernst Dreyer (1816-1899) on the the Kingdom of Hanover , from 1866 to Prussia belonging Elbinsel Neuhof on Reiherstieg was founded and existed until the 1895th From 1846 to around 1875, the shipyard also had a second shipbuilding site in Altona, Denmark, and from 1867 also Prussia . Around 120 ships were built in the entire period.
history
In 1840 Ernst Dreyer took over the yard from Johann Beenk in Neuhof on Reiherstieg opposite Wilhelmsburg and six years later also the Beenk yard in Altona. Around 1850 the Dreyer shipbuilding companies, which mainly delivered their ships to Altona and Hamburg, were among the most efficient shipyards in Hamburg . The clients included the shipping companies von Woermann , Godeffroy , Hapag , Wm. O'Swald , F. Laeisz , Aug. Bolten and Knöhr & Burchard . Dreyer built around 90 wooden ships at his Neuhofer shipyard up to 1871, at the Altona shipyard with around ten significantly fewer. In 1865 the Altona shipyard was sold to JP Wichhorst & Co. From 1875 his son Carl Christian Adalbert Dreyer took over the shipyard management. He expanded the shipbuilding program to include iron construction , so that in addition to schooners , Schmacks and motor launchers were also completed. By 1895, about 20 more ships were built under Carl Dreyer. Carl Christian Adalbert Dreyer died in November 1896. The shipyard was then sold to Max Oertz and Hans Harder , who took over many employees. From 1902 the shipyard was continued by Max Oertz as the sole owner.
Ships
After taking over the two shipyard sites from Beenk, Dreyer concentrated the construction of wooden ships on the site in Neuhof. Mostly schooners and galeas from 50 to 100 loads were produced , which corresponds roughly to the load weight of 100 to 200 tons. From 1850 onwards, significantly larger ships were built, with barges up to 200 loads and full ships up to 500 register tons . From around 1860 the Dreyer shipyards mainly built barques and three-masted schooners with measurements from 150 to 600 register tons. The construction of wooden ships declined sharply at the beginning of 1880, the iron and soon after the steel shipbuilding prevailed. Like many other shipbuilders, the Dreyers did not succeed in making the transition from wooden to iron shipbuilding.
Museales
The Dreyer shipyard estate is the main part of the shipbuilding collection of the Altona Museum . In particular, plans and models from the shipbuilder's design office provide an overview of the variety in the realization of shipbuilding requests.
literature
- Herbert Karting: German schooner. Volumes 1–5: The development of the ship type and the construction of wooden schooners after 1870 on the German North Sea coast (from the Ems to the Weser) . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen.
- Herbert Karting: From Altona to Übersee , Volume 1: The shipbuilder Ernst Dreyer and Altona's sailing ship in the 19th century ; 1999 Hauschild Bremen; ISBN 3-89757-004-1 .
- Herbert Karting: From Altona to Übersee , Volume 2: The ships of the Dreyer shipyard ; 1999 Hauschild Bremen; ISBN 3-89757-005-X .
- Association for Shipbuilding and Ocean Technology (Ed.): 125 years of the Association for Shipbuilding and Ocean Technology e. V. , Hamburg 2009.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hamburg.de: Shipbuilding Collection of the Altona Museum ( Memento from October 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 21, 2010