Gretchen Hartrodt
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Gretchen Hartrodt - originally Cupica - was a three-masted barque (sailing ship) made of steel, built in 1888 . She was the only ship of its own forwarding of Arthur Hartrodt from Hamburg.
Ship history
In 1907 the forwarding company acquired the steel barque Cupica (1,210 tons ), which was built in 1888 by JC Bigger in what was then Londonderry (Ireland, now Northern Ireland). She was built as a smooth decker and had double Mars , but single Bramrahen , as well as royals , a total of 22 sails. The ship was renamed after A. Hartrodt's first daughter, Gretchen Hartrodt .
The barque sailed under the Hartrodt flag from Germany via Australia to Chile . In competition with the Australia Conference , goods were transported from Büsum to Melbourne , where coal was picked up for onward transport to Chile and from there, just like the now famous Rickmer Rickmers , brought Chile nitrate to Europe for fertilizer production (see saltpeter trips ).
After a few years, the Australia Conference offered Hartrodt 50,000 gold marks for discontinuing journeys that were seen as competition to their own liner services. Arthur Hartrodt accepted this offer and sold the Bark to a Norwegian company in 1911. In 1917 the ship was sunk by a German submarine.
supporting documents
- Christian Porsch: First trip 1909/11 Gretchen Hartrodt. Der Albatros, vol. 47, Bremen, 2002. pp. 36-45.
- Company brochure 100 years a. hartrodt , 1887–1987.
