Glenlee (ship)

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Glenlee as Galatea after its transfer in front of the port of Cartagena in 1922

The Glenlee that the names in its history Clara Stella and Galatea wore a in 1896 for the Glen Line shipping company Archibald Sterling & Co. Ltd., Glasgow ( Scotland built) steel Bark . Today it is rebuilt after earlier conversions and severe damage entirely in its original state as a museum ship and attraction at York Hill Wharf in Glasgow and is there after its restoration as The Tall Ship at Glasgow Harbor ( The Tall Ship at Glasgow Harbor known).

description

The steel Windjammer , named after the valley Glenlee northwest of Loch Lee in Angus, Scotland , was a flush deck with poop and back constructed of riveted planks on steel frames and -spanten and introduced, its time for cost reasons, preferred Jubiläumsrigg with double Mars and Bramrahen , but without the royal rake , the mizzen mast with a pole and a gaff , the bowsprit as a stake bowsprit without a stamping stick and without a jib boom . The entire rig was specially reinforced for trips around Cape Horn , all water days on the bow were steel chains. The barque was 1,613 GRT and 1,490 NRT and could carry up to 1,500 tons. [1 tn.l. ( British ton ) = 1.01605 t ( metric ton )] Freight travel.

The hull was painted dark gray and - similar to the ships of the French major shipping company Antoine-Dominique Bordes  - provided with a white and black gate band. Two deckhouses between the masts and the two large hatches dominated the main deck, which was covered with Opepe hardwood (Nauclea diderrichii), in addition to the three masts. The roofs of the larger, front deckhouse and the smaller midship deckhouse also acted as brackets for the four lifeboats. Another large wooden aft deckhouse was on the poop deck in front of the steering gear. It housed the captain's and officer's accommodation, mess and house of cards.

After being sold to "Islamount Sailing Ship Co. (Robert Ferguson & Co.)", the ship was painted white on the hull, which it kept from 1993 until the restoration. Under the Italian Reeder two were diesel engines fitted with two propellers, during their time at the Spanish flag as Segelschulschiff was added an the poop deck across exciting traveling bridge, a movable jib boom with lateral Klüvergeienauslegern for spreading the angle of the lateral Klüvergeien ( " backstays " of the jib-boom) was attached to the pile bow spit and fastened with lashing rings (tension lacing), and berths for 300 cadets were installed in the cargo holds . A lot of iron ballast was built into the frame bays of the hull.

Today the ship is back in the original colors of gray with a red underwater hull and porting tape, the original Kap-Hoorner rig has been rigged using the original masts and yards, and all structures on and below deck correspond to the appearance that the ship originally had in 1896 .

history

The barque ran on December 3, 1896 in the morning at 10:00 a.m. for the Glen Line of the shipping company Archibald Sterling & Co. Ltd., Glasgow, as one of 10 structurally identical barges with a Glen name at the shipyard of Anderson Rodger & Co. in the Scottish port of Glasgow fully rigged and seaworthy from the stack . The barque had a very eventful history and six owners. It had the British registration number 102574 and the distinguishing signal "P M V L".

On December 13, the Glenlee left Glasgow with ballast on course Liverpool to pick up a load of mixed cargo and was only to return for her restoration in 1993 after 97 years. Her maiden voyage took her to Portland (Oregon) via Cape Horn . She stayed with the Glasgow shipping company until 1898, then came to Dundee for the "Islamount Sailing Ship Co. (Robert Ferguson & Co)" and was renamed Islamount . After seven years it changed hands again to "Flint Castle Shipping Co." (Richard Thomas & Co.) in Liverpool. This shipping company was a so-called "one-ship company", which at the time only consisted of the "Islamount" ex "Glenlee". Originally planned to be renamed Flint Castle , it kept its name and came to the Shipping Controller in London at short notice in 1918 , managed by John Stewart & Co. Under its British owners, the ship was on the move worldwide, completed four voyages around the world and 15 circumnavigations of Cape Horn. In the following year 1919, she made her last trip from Java to Cette with a sugar shipment under the British trade flag .

After 23 years of service for British owners, the ship was sold to the Italian “Società Italiana di Navigazione 'Stella d'Italia'” (Italian shipping company “Star of Italy”) in Milan . The home port was now Genoa , where it was modernized and renamed Clarastella ( Heller Stern ). In 1922 she became an auxiliary sailor and received two diesel engines with two propellers.

On March 29, 1922, she changed owners for the last time in her trading career and came to the Spanish Navy as a sailing training ship . She was given the new name Galatea after the Nereid Galatea and was completely overhauled in Monfalcone ( Trieste ) at the well-known shipyard of "Cantiere Navale Triestino" ("Trento Shipyard"). She was now stationed at the naval base "A Graña" ( Gal. Spelling, Spanish "La Graña") in the Galician (north-west Spain) Ferrol , the city of Francisco Franco's birth . From 1927 it was used for the training of NCOs and for separate training programs. During this time, after a severe storm in October 1946, she ran into Santa Cruz de Tenerife , Tenerife , losing almost the entire rig .

In November 1969 she was launched after her last voyage in Ferrol and used as a stationary training ship. In 1981 yards and masts were removed from the dry dock , and the hull received new underwater planking. After that, the barque was moved to Seville to serve as a floating museum ship and was forgotten. Vandalism, including sinking the ship at the berth by removing the bottom valve, brought the ship into a desolate state.

In 1990 the ship lifted by the Spanish Navy was discovered by a Scottish shipbuilder (Sir John Brown, 1901-2000) and rescued on March 31, 1992 (June 30) in an auction by the Clyde Maritime Trust from the scrapping yard and for ESP 5,000 .000 ( £  40,000) which he had only 10 days to raise. An additional £ 30,000 was raised for the towing certificate required to tow the hull back to the Clyde the 1,380 nautical miles in accordance with maritime law . For this purpose, all deck openings had to be closed and boarded (sealed watertight) and, among other things, the poop bridge installed by the Spanish Navy and the additional jib boom removed.

The hull was first brought to Greenock in dry dock from June 1 to 9, 1993 in order to carry out work on the underwater hull (removal of the no longer required propellers and closing of the remaining openings, inspection of the steel planks, temporary black paintwork). After the preparatory work, the ship was towed to Glasgow and moored at Yorkhill quay. The barque saw her old home port for the first time since her launch almost a hundred years ago, as she had never been ordered to Glasgow at the time. The masts, which had been dismantled and stored in Ferrol, were bought back from Spain in 1997 after it was recognized there that the Scots were serious about rebuilding the ship. In 1998, the now 102-year-old ship was re-rigged with the reinstallation of the overhauled and re-welded masts and yards, which was significantly supported by well-preserved photos from its early days, new deckhouses were installed according to original plans after the later ones had been removed. It was one of the greatest rebuilding efforts of a sailor in the world. In all the work, the Scots were supported by the specialists of the other Clyde ships restored in America ( Balclutha , Falls of Clyde , Moshulu ). Large amounts of money had to be raised by the “Clyde Maritime Trust” to restore the ship to its original size and beauty over six years (1993–1999) with a volunteer team. She also got back her wonderful figurehead - carved anew in 2000 - a blonde beauty in a red bolero , white robe and blue scarf - the flag colors of her first shipowner, Archibald Sterling & Co. Ltd. The original figure is said to have been lost at sea in the 1920s, according to other sources it remained in Spain.

The restoration of the Glenlee was made possible by lotteries and funds ("National Heritage Lottery Fund", "European Regional Development Fund"), as well as the "Glasgow City Council" and "Scottish Enterprise Glasgow", not to mention private donors (around £ 2,730,000). In 1999 the newly created Glenlee was opened as a museum ship.

The Glenlee is next to the Moshulu , the Pommern , the four-masted full-blown ship Falls of Clyde and the Balclutha, the last of five surviving tall ships that were launched at a Clyde shipyard.

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Ships built on the Clyde:

literature

  • Colin Castle: Glasgow's Windjammer . Ships Monthly, January 1993, pp. 38-39
  • J. Ferrell Colton: Last of the Square-rigged Ships . GP Putnam's & Sons, New York 1937
  • CM Mason: Five Thousand Days, The Voyages of the Clydebuilt Barque Glenlee (renamed Islamount 1899) under the Red Ensign 1897-1919 . Clyde Maritime Trust Ltd., Glasgow 1995
  • Otmar Schäuffelen: Chapman Great Sailing Ships of the World . Hearst Books, New York 2005; ISBN 1-58816-384-9
  • Colin Waters: The Glenlee comes home to Scotland . Sea Breezes, Vol. 68, 1994, pp. 291-295

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Coordinates: 55 ° 51 ′ 45.5 "  N , 4 ° 17 ′ 53"  W.