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The harvest was a German Tjalk built in 1897 , which capsized on April 19, 1903 in the Baltic Sea . The 32-year-old captain Hans H. Engellandt survived eleven days in the capsized wreck and was freed from it in the port of Neufahrwasser . The remaining three crew members were killed. The accident is considered unusual in German maritime history .
the accident
In April 1903, the harvest in Russ an der Gilge picked up a full load of floorboards made of fir wood and set off on April 18, 1903 at 8:00 a.m. from Memel in the direction of Oldenburg . The cargo consisted of 54 standards (1 standard = 165 cubic feet ), some of which were stored on deck .
On the night of April 19, 1903, a violent storm arose, mixed with rain and snow. 4:00 am Captain Engellandt handed the guard at the helm Heinrich Frahm, who with the ordinary seaman should remain H. Abenseth on deck, while the captain and the ship's boy Paul Funk rested.
Around 4.45 a.m. the harvest suddenly capsized . At this point, Engellandt was in his cabin . The capsized wreck did not sink. Engellandt survived the next eleven days in the cabin, benefiting from the fact that it contained food . He quenched his thirst with seawater without any health consequences for him.
On 29 April 1903, the driving wreck which placed the Norwegian steamer Aurora under Captain H. Sorensen from Laurwig at the position 55 ° 9 ' N , 18 ° 16' O discovered. The Aurora was sailing from Cardiff to Gdansk .
Engellandt had given knock signals with a hammer, which were heard on the aurora . An attempt to drill into the wreck and to pull Engellandt out of the wreck failed at the outset, as the air in the wreck threatened to escape, so that a drilled hole was immediately plugged again. The escaping air would probably have caused the wreck to sink.
The wreck was then secured with chains and towed by the Aurora to Neufahrwasser. When entering shallower water, the mast broke off. In the port, the pilot commander Wunderlich took over the rescue work. The wreck was towed under the large harbor crane by two towing boats and secured with chains so that it could not sink any deeper. Then several blacksmiths opened a base plate of the hull over the location of Engellandt so that it could be pulled out of the wreck.
The motto of the Danzig Maritime Office
In its ruling of May 6, 1903, the Danzig Maritime Administration concluded that the harvest had been lost due to bad weather and possibly an incorrect sailing maneuver by the helmsman. The Maritime Administration assumed that the three other crew members were killed in the accident.
Whereabouts
With the repaired and overhauled harvest, Captain Engellandt drove home, where he sold it to his brother Peter. The Tjalk was still in the shipping register in 1922. The further whereabouts are unknown.
The event was retold slightly alienated in Max Hauschild's novella Eight Days Under Water .
literature
- Chapter: Ruling of the Maritime Office in Danzig from May 6, 1903, concern the marine casualty of the Tjalk "Erndte" from Rendsburg , in: Reichsamt des Innern (ed.): Decisions of the Ober-Seeamt and the Maritime Offices of the German Reich , Vol. 15, Hamburg 1905, pp. 151–156.
- Max Hauschild: Eight days under water , in: Köhler's illustrated fleet calendar 1928 , pp. 105–110.