Hans Egede (ship)
The Hans Egede was an ice-going steamship operated by the Royal Greenland Trading Company with its home port in Copenhagen . The merchant ship , built in 1905 by Burmeister & Wain in Copenhagen, was named after the Greenlandic "national saint " Hans Egede .
Construction and technology
The ship was launched on 14 December 1905 with the hull number 240, stack and was operational in April 1906th It was 52.3 meters long and 10.5 meters wide. It was propelled by a triple expansion steam engine , which gave the ship a maximum speed of 8.5 knots .
history
In addition to commercial goods , the ship also transported explorers. A prominent traveler on board the steamship in 1909 was the North Pole adventurer Frederick Cook , whom the steamship brought to Copenhagen after his North Pole expedition . On board the ship, Cook announced his alleged discovery of the North Pole during this voyage. In 1916 Knud Rasmussen and Lauge Koch traveled to Godthåb on the second Thule expedition with the Hans Egede . In October 1938, the Herdemerten expedition also left Greenland by ship.
During the Second World War , the Hans Egede was attacked and sunk off Newfoundland on March 6, 1942, presumably by the German submarine U 587 under the command of Corvette Captain Ulrich Borcherdt . Captain NO Petersen and 22 crew members were killed in the attack. U 587 reported the torpedoing of a patrol boat sailing under the Danish flag , the Hawse Gude , but it is assumed that the sunk ship was the Hans Egede .
The Greenland Post depicted Hans Egede on a postage stamp .
More ships with this name
Another ship that was baptized Hans Egede was a wooden three-masted schooner with an auxiliary engine, which was built in 1922 by J. Th. Jorgensen in Thurø , Denmark . On August 21, 1955, the ship burned down and was towed into the port of Dover , where it became the property of Atlas Diesel Co. in 1957. This used the dismantled Hans Egede as a coal ship on the Medway River . Shortly thereafter, it sank while trying to be towed to the Cubitt Town shipyard in London . The wreck eventually stranded off the Hoo Peninsula in Kent .
Web links
- The ship at Miramar Ship Index called 2 January 2010 (Engl.)
- The ship at uboat.net called 2 January 2010 (Engl.)
- Ship information page, accessed January 2, 2010 (Swedish)
Footnotes
- ^ Frederick Cook: My Attainment of the Pole. 2001, ISBN 978-0966561333 , pp. 63f.
- ↑ Knud Rasmussen: The Second Thule Expedition to Northern Greenland, 1916-1918 . In: Geographical Review . Volume 8, No. 2, 1919, pp. 116-125. doi: 10.2307 / 207633
- ↑ Kurt Herdemerten : Jukunguaq. The Greenland Book of the Hermann Göring Foundation. Georg Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig 1939. p. 62.
- ^ Jürgen Rohwer: Axis submarine successes of World War Two: German, Italian, and Japanese. London 1999, ISBN 1-85367-340-4 , p. 83.