Dunkerque (ship, 1897)

Dunkerque

Ship data flag  France Ship type Barque home port Dunkerque Owner AD Bordes et fild Shipyard Laporte et Cie, Rouen Launch 1896 Whereabouts Canceled in 1927

Ship dimensions and crew length 99.85 m ( Lüa ) width 13.85 m Draft Max. 7.75 m displacement 4500  t measurement 3,338 GRT

Rigging and rigging Rigging Barkrigg Number of masts 4th Speed under sail Max. 12 kn (22 km / h)

The Bark Dunkerque was a French sailing ship owned by AD Bordes et fils from Dunkirk.

In the period from 1875 to 1914, the shipping company owned 68 sailing ships. Among other things, they stood out due to a special paint scheme among other ships of the time. The hulls of the ships were painted light gray. A white ribbon of gates with painted gun ports ran around the hull , giving the ships an elegant appearance.

The ship

The Dunkerque was a four-masted barque in steel construction with a length of 99.86 meters and a width of 13.86 meters. The maximum draft was 7.74 meters. The ship is specified with a GT of 3383 and an NRZ of 2498. The sails consisted of the classic baroque position. The first captain of the ship was F. Martin.

Emergence

The construction and commissioning of the ship in the spring of 1897 took place under special circumstances. The French state had passed a law to subsidize the domestic steel industry. Shipbuilding in particular benefited from this, as it received 65 francs from the legislature as a subsidy per ton of steel. Many French shipowners took this opportunity to modernize and rejuvenate their fleets. One of the first was the shipping company AD Bordes et fils . She ordered a four-masted barque from the Laporte et Cie shipyard in Rouen . The new ship was to be used as a bulk cargo ship in the Chile journey. It replaced an earlier ship of the same name, which was lost in the summer of 1891 in a way that has not yet been clarified on a voyage from Cardiff with coal to Rio de Janeiro .

commitment

The Bark Dunkerque was intended for the journey in the saltpetre trade between French and Chilean ports and was also used on these routes until 1924. In 1927 she was taken out of service and broken up in Italy. Her last trip was from Swansea in tow with a load of coal to Savona .

Trivia

In 1906, the ship became famous for the rescue of some shipwrecked people from the Belgian sailing ship Comte de Smet de Naeyer , named after the Belgian politician Paul de Smet de Naeyer , which sank while crossing the Atlantic in good weather.

literature

• Tony Gibbons: The World of Ships. Bassermann Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-8094-2186-3 .
• Hans-Jörg Furrer: The four- and five-masted square sailors in the world. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1984. ISBN 3-7822-0341-0 .

Footnotes

1. ↑ Ships of the World Bassermann Verlag 2007 page 158