FW Wencke
The FW Wencke shipyard was built in 1833 by Friedrich Wilhelm Wencke in the city of Bremerhaven, which was founded in 1827 , and sold to Georg Seebeck in 1900 . Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '22.9 " N , 8 ° 35' 4.9" E
history
The shipyard was built in Bremerhaven as the first new shipyard in 1833 at the mouth of the Geeste on a leased property. The slipway built for the new ship was supplemented in 1845/46 by the Wencke Dock as a dry dock - the second such facility in Bremerhaven, because Johann Lange's neighboring shipyard had built a dry dock as early as 1837. Wencke's double dry dock, which was provided with wooden walls and had two chambers that were 52 meters and 32 meters long, had a shared entrance 11 meters wide. It was enlarged in 1860 to a length of 81 meters or 58 meters and an entrance width of 15 meters. The wooden walls were later replaced by those made of limestone and brick.
The first new construction of this shipyard, the Brigg Wilhelm Ludwig delivered to J. Lange in Bremen in 1835 , was also the first seagoing ship built in Bremerhaven. With the paddle steamer Manchester for the Hanseatic Steamship Company in Hamburg, he delivered his first sea-going steamer in 1841. At 520 RT, it was his largest ship for the next ten years. Only the full ship Olbers , built for Wätjen in 1851, was bigger with 831 RT. Two of his newbuildings, the barques Tusnelda and Tusnelde , were delivered to his own shipping company based in Langen in 1858 .
Two ships are still associated with the Wencke name today, it is the 1125 RT full ship Hansa , which took part in the second German polar expedition in 1869/70 under the direction of Carl Koldewey . The first German fish steamer, the Sagitta , became even better known . It was built in 1885 and delivered to the Friedrich Busse shipping company . She was immediately a very successful new type of ship, which was then ordered by several fishing companies. Six stern paddle steamers of various sizes were built for Colombia in the 1990s. The three-masted schooner Richard Hagen , delivered to the shipping company Paulsen und Ivers in 1900, was the last ship of this innovative shipyard.
The shipbuilding pioneer and shipyard founder Friedrich Wilhelm Wencke died in 1859 and the shipyard and shipping company was continued by his wife Gesine and son-in-law Friedrich Wilhelm Albert Rosenthal. Gesine Wencke was Bremerhaven's first major female entrepreneur. One of her decisions was to expand the dry dock in 1960. After her death in 1966, Rosenthal ran the shipyard until Nicolaus Diedrich Wencke, the founder's son, took over the shipyard in 1873. In 1900 the shipyard was closed and later sold to Georg Seebeck.
literature
- Alfred Kube: Shipyard and shipping company FW Wencke. On the history of a Bremerhaven family business 1833–1900, in: Anja Benscheidt and Alfred Kube: The landscape painter Sophie Wencke. From the Wencke shipyard in Bremerhaven to Worpswede . Bremerhaven 2008, pp. 14-71. ISBN 3865098320 .
- Paul Schroedter, Gustav Schroedter (Ed.): 100 years of shipping, shipbuilding, ports . Schiffahrtsverlag Hansa, Hamburg 1964.
Individual evidence
- ^ The other shipyards on the Geeste. (No longer available online.) In: Bremerhaven.de . Archived from the original on October 31, 2013 ; Retrieved June 25, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The history of the Wencke Dock: Shipbuilding at the economic nucleus of the city. (No longer available online.) In: Bremerhaven.de . Archived from the original on October 29, 2013 ; Retrieved June 25, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt: Wenckes first and last sailing ship In: Blatt No. 229 from January 1969, p. 4, accessed on February 23, 2017
