Hekla (ship, 1884)

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The Hekla was a Danish emigrant ship , the second ship of that name in the Thingvalla line ( Dampskibs Selskabet Thingvalla ) in Copenhagen . It replaced its predecessor, the first Hekla , which ran aground east of Sandefjord on February 15, 1883 and sank two days later.

Construction and technical data

The ship was on the 1883-84 shipyard of Scotts in Greenock , Scotland , built and ran there on February 29, 1884 from the stack . The Hekla , a schooner rigged steam sailor with an iron hull, straight stern, a chimney and three masts , was 100.65 m long and 12.77 m wide and was measured with 3,258 GRT or 2113 NRT. Your 2-cylinder composite steam engine manufactured by the shipyard gave a cruising speed of 11 knots via one screw . The ship had space for 40 passengers in the first, 27 in the second and 804 in the third class, the tween deck .

history

The Hekla left Copenhagen on May 14, 1884 on her maiden voyage , which went to New York via Christiania ( Oslo ) and Christiansand . On board were 500 Danish embarked in Copenhagen, 370 in Christiania and 120 in Christiansand boarded Norwegian emigrants.

She then traveled on this route about five to seven times a year, on the return trip in winter often with Scandinavian emigrants who wanted to celebrate Christmas again in their old homeland. In addition to passengers, cargo was also carried, mainly pulp , herrings , sprats , mackerel and oil . Special incidents were rare:

  • On October 17, 1885, lying on the pier in Hoboken , a fire broke out in a hold, which was extinguished by the Hoboken fire department.
  • On the voyage from New York to Copenhagen in December 1886, the rudder was lost in a storm about 500 nautical miles west of Ireland , and the Hekla was brought in to Greenock.
  • On March 24, 1893, she suffered an engine failure, continued under sail and was finally towed by the America on April 3 and brought to New York.
  • On May 27, 1897, in front of the Newfoundland Bank in thick fog, it collided with the Mississippi of the Atlantic Transport Line and lost part of its bow. The Mississippi suffered a 4 x 2 meter leak on her port side , but above the waterline . Both ships were able to continue their voyage, the Mississippi to New York, the Hekla to Copenhagen, where it arrived at Burmeister & Wain on June 14 for repairs.

Her last trip for the Thingvalla Line began on August 24, 1898 in Copenhagen. Then the shipping company with its four ships was bought up in October 1898 by Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab (DFDS), also based in Copenhagen, and from January 1899 it was continued under the new name Scandinavia-Amerikalinje.

In March 1905, on the way back from her last voyage for the Scandinavian-Amerikalinje, the Hekla broke the helm again in a storm. After being repaired by Burmeister & Wain, the ship was sold to Dansk-Russiske D / SA / S in Copenhagen on September 27, 1905 and renamed Eduard Regel . On November 17, 1905, it was sold to the Northern Steam Ship Co. in Saint Petersburg . In 1908 the ship was sold to the Lassmann brothers in Saint Petersburg and renamed Minsk , but the following year it was taken over again by DFDS, sold to the Copenhagen scrap recycling company Petersen & Albeck in February 1910 and then broken up in Lemwerder .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ built in 1890, 5158 GRT, National Line (National Steam Navigation Company); http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_ship.asp?sh=amec2
  2. ↑ Jonathan Kinghorn: The Atlantic Transport Line, 1881-1931: A History with Details on All Ships ; McFarland & Co., Jefferson, NC, & London, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7864-6142-4 , p. 221
  3. ↑ Scandinavian-America Lines / Scandinavian-America Line, at www.theshipslist.com
  4. ^ The Scandinavian America Line, at www.norwayheritage.com
  5. ↑ http://www.jmarcussen.dk/maritim/skibsliste/side.php?id=12697

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