Hekla (ship, 1881)
The Hekla was a Danish emigrant ship that ran aground off the Norwegian coast in 1883 after less than a year of service and sank two days later. She was the first ship of this name on the Thingvalla Line ( Dampskibs Selskabet Thingvalla ) in Copenhagen . The shipping company had its second Hekla built as a replacement as early as 1883/84 .
Construction and technical data
The ship was on the 1,881 yard of Kockums Mekaniska Werkstads AB in Malmö , Sweden , built. The Hekla , a schooner rigged steam sailor with an iron hull, straight stern, a chimney and three masts , was 95.40 m long and 11.94 m wide and measured at 2,788 GRT . Her steam engine achieved a cruising speed of 11 knots over one screw . She had space for 12 passengers in the first, 16 in the second and 600 in the third class, the tween deck .
history
The Hekla made a total of six trips from Copenhagen or Christiania ( Oslo ) to New York and back. The seventh ended prematurely with its demise.
On March 25, 1882, the Hekla left Copenhagen with 500 emigrants on her maiden voyage , which took her to New York via Christiania, where 211 more passengers boarded, and Christiansand . Arrival in New York was on April 12th. On May 12, 1882, she left Christiania with 221 emigrants on her second trip, but returned to Christiansand on May 15 with machine damage, continued to Copenhagen for repairs and did not start the journey to New York until May 23 on.
The third trip started on July 11th in Christiania with 180 emigrants and a load of pulp and oil and ended on July 25th or 26th in New York. The fourth trip from Christiania to New York lasted from August 24th to September 6th, the fifth, on the same route with 147 Norwegian passengers, from October 19th to November 4th, the sixth, again with Norwegian emigrants and one cargo of herrings , sprats , oil, horseshoes and steel , December 14-29, 1882; On the way back, two sailors fell overboard in a storm on January 20, 1883 and drowned.
The seventh trip was her last. The Hekla left Copenhagen on February 13, 1883 to return to New York via Christiania. She took on more passengers in Christiania on February 14th, but then landed on February 15th in the Sydostgrunnen east of Sandefjord or Nøtterøy at about 59 ° 7 ′ N , 10 ° 35 ′ E aground. All passengers and crew as well as large parts of the cargo could be recovered before the ship sank on February 17th.