Duchess Sophie Charlotte (ship)

Duchess Sophie Charlotte

Ship data flag  German Empire other ship names Albert Rickmers, Gjertrud Ship type Freight sailor , training ship Shipyard Rickmerswerft, Geestemünde baptism 1894 Launch 1894 Commissioning 1895 Decommissioning 1927 Whereabouts Wrecked in 1927.

Ship dimensions and crew length 82.3 m ( Lüa ) width 13.17 m Draft Max. 7.12 m measurement 2,591 GRT

Rigging and rigging Rigging Four-masted barque Number of masts 4th Number of sails 35 (20 square, 13 stay, 2 mizzen sails) Sail area 2,935 m²

The Duchess Sophie Charlotte was a four-masted steel barque that was built in 1894 as Albert Rickmers for the Rickmers shipping company at the Rickmers shipyard in Geestemünde . As a special feature, it led to the fore and main top Sky sails over the Royals .

history

The sailing ship was the first steel ship built at Rickmerswerft and, from 1899, the first sailing training ship in the German merchant fleet . The ship was supposed to transport raw materials for Rickmers Reismühlen . In 1895 the sailor made his first voyage to Japan under the leadership of Captain Ch. Warnecke . This was followed by further trips, mostly to the Far East. From 1897 to 1899, Captain J. Hansen ran the barque.

In 1899, the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company bought the five-year-old four-masted barque, renamed it Duchess Sophie Charlotte and had it prepared for the training ship operation. The poop was lengthened to accommodate 60 cadets. Until 1913, the Duchess Sophie Charlotte was a cadet ship for North German Lloyd and made trips around the globe. The skippers were the captains Warnecke, Zander, Gluud and Hoek.

In 1913 the ship went for 10,000 British pounds over Schlüter & Maack in Hamburg in the possession of the shipping company. Under the leadership of Captain G. Reingardt, the sailor made two trips to Chile . During the second voyage, the First World War broke out. The four-masted barque was then interned in Caleta Buena in August 1914 and confiscated by the Chilean government in 1918. The ship was tied up in Chile until 1920. In 1921 it was returned to Great Britain, where the ship had to be delivered as a reparation payment . The ship was sold by England in 1921 to Robert Mattson in Mariehamn , Åland Islands , who sold it on in 1922. According to the register ( Germanischer Lloyd ) it sailed in 1923 and 1924 under the name Gjertrud for the Chr. Trondsen shipping company in Sarpsborg ( Norway ). In 1927 it was towed to Wilhelmshaven and broken up there.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.bruzelius.info - Annalen (English)
2. ↑ www.kolumbus.fi - data sheet and bibliography (Finnish)

literature

• Heinz Burmester: On the Duchess Sophie Charlotte 1903/04 . In: Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 4/1981. German Maritime Museum , Oldenburg 1981. ISSN  0343-3668
• Hans Jörg Furrer: The four- and five-mast square sailors in the world . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Herford 1984. ISBN 3782203410
• Gerhard Koop: The German sailing school ships . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1989. ISBN 3763758607
• Jürgen Meyer: Hamburg's sailing ships from 1795-1945 . Verlag Egon Heinemann, Norderstedt 1971. ISBN 978-3892254003

Web links

Commons : Duchess Sophie Charlotte (Schiff, 1894)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files