Johann Albrecht (ship)

The Johann Albrecht was a steamship of the New Guinea company .

history

The Johann Albrecht was built in Bremen in 1897 and had 287 gross tons . It was named after Johann Albrecht , a German colonial politician. The ship was registered for the German Colonial Society in Bremen, which was active on the largest river in New Guinea , the Kaiserin-Augusta River in the German New Guinea colony .

The Johann Albrecht had only been in the South Seas for a few weeks when she was ordered to the Hermit Islands in the western Bismarck Archipelago in May 1898 . There she was supposed to pick up shipwrecked people from a stranded schooner from the island of Monafé. The Johann Albrecht ran aground in the surf at Monafé and had to be abandoned.

The first officer of the Johann Albrecht then sailed with a coastal resident in an open boat over 200 nautical miles to Berlinhafen in New Guinea to get help there.

Finally, on June 21, 1898, the 57 shipwrecked people from the two wrecks were salvaged by the Reichspostdampfer Stettin of Norddeutscher Lloyd .

literature

• Hermann Joseph Hiery : Die Deutsche Südsee 1884–1914 , Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2001, page 175