Helmsing & Grimm
| Helmsing & Grimm | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1836/1949 |
| resolution | 2012 |
| Seat | Hamburg |
| Branch | shipping |
The helmet Sing & Grimm (GmbH & Co.) was a shipping company based in Riga and later in Hamburg . The office flag was a stand with a blue circle on a white background.
history
The company was founded on January 12, 1836 by the President of the Riga Exchange Committee Eduard Wilhelm Tielemann Grimm (* 1794 in Lübeck , † 1874 in Riga) and his brother-in-law, the merchant John Helmsing (* 1806 in Riga; † 1867 ibid) as a trading house in Riga founded. Both had previously in the Riga branch of the London trading firm Mitchell & Co. worked.
The main business area of the new company was initially the export of Russian agricultural products and the import of agricultural machinery from Great Britain. From 1873 Helmsing & Grimm operated as a shipping company, and in collaboration with the shipping companies Wilson-Line from Hull and James Cormack & Co. from Leith, regular connections to Great Britain began. In 1888 a branch was opened in Libau .
In the years before 1900, the Russian Black Sea ports became increasingly important as competitors, whereupon Helmsing & Grimm increasingly exported Russian agricultural products. Among other things, they brought Danish specialists into the country to set up industrial Russian butter production, mechanize oil mills, extract down commercially and export eggs from southern Russia via Riga. The Russian government promoted Helmsing & Grimm's efforts with appropriate rail connections - this concerned both the trains used, including the express trains used and the first refrigerated wagons built in Russia, as well as - to ensure exports during the ice months in Riga - the expansion of the railway line to Moscow and Mitau to Windau (where a branch was also opened in 1902). The Russian-Baltic Steamship Company - Helmsing & Grimm and the Rigaer Schnelldampfer Companie , whose refrigerated ships were used to transport butter and eggs to London, were also founded at this time. A total of around 16 steamers were operated at the turn of the century, six of them in the liner service between Riga and Great Britain and in the large cabotage trip from Odessa to Arkhangelsk , the rest in tramp shipping with wood and general cargo.
In Riga, Helmsing & Grimm worked as a liner agency for several British shipping companies as well as for German shipping companies such as Hapag , Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft “Neptun” and Rud. Christian. Gribel and as an agency for Lloyd's of London (the latter for over 50 years until the outbreak of World War II). After the First World War, the shipping company had five ships from the Russian-Baltic Steamship Company with which the existing business was resumed in the interwar years and later expanded. In 1940, under the pressure of the war, the company relocated to Gdansk .
After the Second World War, the company relocated to Hamburg . In addition, the shipping companies Helmsing & Co. and John C. Helmsing were founded in Bremen . In the post-war years a modern fleet was built up again, which retained a strong focus on the Baltic Sea , and the timber freighting business was strengthened. In mid-2011, the shipping company ceased operations and sold the last ships; in March 2012, the company based in the Asia-Haus was finally deleted from the commercial register.
The ships of Helmsing & Grimm (selection)
| Fleet of the shipping company Helmsing & Grimm | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building name | Shipyard / construction number |
IMO number | delivery | Client | Renaming and whereabouts |
| Bellini | Short Brothers / 110 |
- | 1880 | Taylor, Jenneson & Co. | 1893 as Olga to the Russian-Baltic Steamship Company Helmsing & Grimm, sunk on June 10, 1917 on a journey with coal from Newcastle to the Kola Peninsula about 89 nautical miles from the North Cape after an exchange of fire by U-45. |
| Castro | Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co./ 449 |
- | 1899 | Thos. Wilson Sons & Co. (Wilson Line), Hull | 1901 as Sergei to the Russian-Baltic Steamship Company Helmsing & Grimm, sank on August 18, 1923 after a collision with a load of wood on the Humber, later lifted. |
| Anna | Helsingørs Jernskibs and Maskinbyggeri / 77 |
- | 1899 | ? | On July 8, 1915 on a trip with wood from Arkhangelsk to Hull under the management of the Russian-Baltic Steamship Company Helmsing & Grimm about 35 nautical miles northeast to east of Kinnaird Head torpedoed and sunk by U-25. |
| Meri | Helsingørs Jernskibs and Maskinbyggeri / 7 |
- | 1884 | ? | Accumulated and sunk off Flamborough Head on March 6, 1916 on a journey with coal from North Shields for Order under the management of the Russian-Baltic Steamship Company Helmsing & Grimm . |
| Erika | Helsingørs Jernskibs og Maskinbyggeri / ? |
- | 1899 | ? | Sunk by U-46 off the Kola peninsula on October 6, 1916 on a journey with coal from Blyth to Arkhangelsk under the management of the Russian-Baltic Steamship Company Helmsing & Grimm. |
| Sigrid | Blyth Shipbuilding / 94 |
- | 1898 | Russian-Baltic Steamship Company Helmsing & Grimm | Torpedoed and sunk by U-49 on February 8, 1917 on a voyage from Romanoff about 30 nautical miles from Unst . |
| Gloriana | Short Brothers / 274 |
- | 1898 | Furness, Withy & Co. , West Hartlepool | 1900 as Betty to the Russian-Baltic Steamship Company Helmsing & Grimm, shot at and sunk by U-61 on June 10, 1917 while traveling with coal from Cardiff to Murmansk about 45 nautical miles northwest of North Rona Island . |
| Cesarevitch Alexei | Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co./ ? |
- | 1903 | ? | Sunk by U-60 about eight to ten nautical miles east of Lerwick on July 29, 1917 on a voyage with general cargo from Archangelsk to Liverpool under the management of the Russian-Baltic Steamship Company Helmsing & Grimm . |
| Frida Horn | Neptun shipyard / 242 |
- | 1905 | HC Horn (Fruchtdampfer AG), Lübeck | 1913 Ljusne Alv to Helmsing & Grimm, ran into a mine in the Weser estuary on October 3, 1919 and sank. |
| Dacre Hill | Thompson & Sons, Sunderland / 440 |
- | February 1906 | Chart Shipping Company (W. Price & Co.), Liverpool | Confiscated by the German Reich in August 1914, Marie in 1915 , interned in Tanjung Priok from May 14, 1916 , returned as Dacre Hill in 1919 , Blaircree in 1924 , as Baltmor in 1925 to the Baltic Steamship Company Helmsing & Grimm, scrapped in Latvia in the summer of 1934. |
| Heinrich Schuldt | Flensburg shipbuilding company / 120 |
- | May 1891 | Heinrich Schuldt , Flensburg | 1930 Holland , 1940 as Mariann to Helmsing & Grimm, ran into mine on September 10, 1941 and at 54.17 ° N; 015.29 ° E down. |
| Cairnavon | Short Brothers / 325 |
- | 1905 | Cairns, Young & Noble (Cairn Line) | 1917 Soutra , 1936 Emmi , 1942 Sperrbrecher-166 ( Emmi ), 1944 as Schirmeck to the Russian-Baltic Steamship Company Helmsing & Grimm, sunk on September 29, 1944 after colliding with the Bahia Camarones . |
| Marianne | Neptun shipyard / 201 |
- | December 1901 | A. Kossel, Rostock | 1923 Franziska Fischer , 1924 Dora Ahrens , 1953 as Mariann at Helmsing & Grimm, from November 8, 1955 scrapped at Eisen und Metall in Hamburg. |
| Katharina Kolkmann | Schichau Unterweser / 362 |
- | 1953 | Merkur shipping company, Bremen | Sunk on March 29, 1965 on a journey with pig iron from Wismar to Haulbowline under the management of Helmsing & Grimm after collision in the fog in the Strait of Dover. |
| Mariann | Schichau Unterweser / 390 |
5223566 | September 1956 | Helmsing & Grimm, Hamburg | 1972 Sigrid , driven onto a breakwater on January 15, 1977 after a trip from Bordeaux to Rijeka roadstead after machine damage, total loss. |
| Fiducia | Nobiskrug / 654 |
6719902 | June 1967 | Fiducia Schiffahrts-Gesellschaft , Flensburg | 1975 as John C. Helmsing to Helmsing & Grimm, 2008 Geni 4 , scrapped in Aliağa from April 19, 2013. |
| Leo Schröder | Lindenau / 153 |
7229758 | December 14, 1972 | Richard Schröder shipping company, Hamburg | 1983 sold as Adelaide to Helmsing & Grimm, 2010 Amal Star , 2016 for demolition in Alang |
| Lutz Schröder | Lindenau / 154 |
7306702 | May 15, 1973 | Richard Schröder shipping company, Hamburg | 1986 as Senya at Helmsing & Grimm, 2011 Joy K. , 2017 demolition in Aliaga. |
| Fossum | Lindenau / 176 |
7802122 | April 1979 | K / S Fossum A / S (Fredrik Høyer), Skien | 1982 Sudan Crown , 1983 Fossum , 1985 Aries , 1998 as Daniel at Helmsing & Grimm, 2012 Nazlim , so in motion. |
| Lloyd's Register, Equasis | |||||
literature
- 125 years of Helmsing & Grimm in Seekiste , issue 2, February 1961, Verlag Schmidt & Klaunig, Kiel, pp. 145–147.
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Helmsing & Grimm. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry Helmsing & Grimm at crwflags.com (English)
- ↑ Helmsing dissolves fleet , In: Daily port report , June 16, 2011.
- ↑ Lloyd's Register, London, various years
- ↑ Equasis homepage (English)