Groenland (ship)

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Ship data
flag North German Confederation
other ship names

Freddy
Falcon

Ship type Barque with auxiliary engine / whaling ship
Callsign KMCG
home port Hamburg
Owner German Polar Shipping Society
Shipyard Wencke shipyard , Geestemünde
Launch January 1872
Whereabouts Sunk in 1894
Ship dimensions and crew
length
37.60 m / 39.70 m ( Lüa )
width 7.28 m
Draft Max. 4.7 m
displacement approx. 1000 t
 
crew 50
Machine system
machine Compound steam engine
Machine
performance 		95 hp
Rigging and rigging
Speed
under sail 		Max. 14 kn (26 km / h)
Transport capacities
Load capacity 388 dw

The Groenland was an auxiliary sailor of the Deutsche Polar-Schiffahrts-Gesellschaft .

The barque with auxiliary engine was built in 1871/72 under the name Freddy at the Wencke shipyard in Geestemünde and immediately afterwards incorporated into the Deutsche Polar-Schifffahrts-Gesellschaft under the new name Groenland .

It should initially be used for whale and seal fishing. In the official German ship list she is registered with the distinctive signal KMCG, home port Hamburg as a screw steamer with a load capacity of around 400 t and an engine output of 95 effective horse power.

The Groenland is also a sister ship to the one year later built Vega (ex Jan Mayen ), with which the Swedish polar explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld carried out the first voyage of the Northeast Passage .

to travel

The Groenland sailed to Spitsbergen at the end of January 1873 under the Norwegian captain Jacob Melsom to rescue 17 Norwegian seal hunters who had to spend the winter in Svenskhuset on Cape Thordsen involuntarily . However, the ship could not enter the icy Isfjorden and had to turn around at Alkhornet on March 7th. Under the command of the later polar explorer Eduard Dallmann , the Bismarck Strait , the Neumayer Canal and the Kaiser Wilhelm Island were discovered with the Groenland during an unproductive fishing trip in 1874 . Dallmann named Cape Greenland after the ship. Between 1875 and 1893, the Groenland (from 1876 under English owners as Falcon ) was used for sealing seals on the east coast of Greenland and for whaling in the Davis Strait . From 1893 the Falcon served the polar explorer Robert Edwin Peary as an expedition ship.

In 1894 the Falcon sank off Philadelphia with a load of coal.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AVDK 1873 p.142 / 143
  2. ↑ Odd Lønø: Norske fangstmenns overvintringer. Del 1 1795 to 1892 (PDF; 2.9 MB). (= Norsk Polarinstitutt Meddelelser 102), Norsk Polarinstitutt, Oslo 1972, p. 37 ff (Norwegian)
  3. ↑ Reinhard A. Krause, Ursula Rack (ed.): Journal, kept on board the steamship GROENLAND, Captain Ed. Dallmann, on the journey from Hamburg to d. Whale and Seal fishing on the coasts of South Shetland Islds. Coronation Isld. Trinity Land & Palmerland, run by Rud. Küper, Hamburg , Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven 2006 (PDF file; 4.91 MB), accessed on January 9, 2012

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