Freia (ship, 1872)
The Freia was a Norwegian three-masted full -rigged ship that crashed on the rocky coast off Yarmouth (Nova Scotia) in 1913 .
The ship
The ship was in 1872 when L. Smit & Zoon Scheepswerven in Kinderdijk ( Netherlands ) with the hull number 384 and the name of industry for an unknown Dutch owner of the stack . It was 72.5 m long and 13.1 m wide, had a steel hull and 7.2 m draft and was measured with 1,680 GRT and 1,593 NRT . In 1881 the industry was sold to Carl HH Winters in Elsfleth , for whom it drove until 1892. Then ownership passed to Gustav Adolph Schiff in Elsfleth. In 1904 A. Meling from Stavanger , Norway , bought the ship and renamed it Freia .
fate
The Freia had taken over a load of wood in Yarmouth on May 26, 1913 and was supposed to bring it to Bahía Blanca in Argentina . She was anchored on May 29, 1913 in the bay off Yarmouth, between Cape Forchu and the mainland, to await the rest of her crew from Boston . She was torn from her anchorage in a severe storm and thrown at position 43 ° 47 ′ 36 ″ N , 66 ° 8 ′ 23 ″ W on the rocky coast north of Point Sunday, where she was destroyed by the surf . The part of the crew on board, including the captain's wife, managed to lower the boats and to save themselves on land. The timber cargo, the largest that had been loaded in Yarmouth by then, was washed up for miles along the coast.