Johann Marbs shipyard
The Johann Marbs Werft was a guild-free shipyard on Pinnasberg in Hamburg-St. Pauli , founded after 1825 by the shipbuilder Johann Marbs. Until the 1870s, he and his sons created around 25 wooden sailing ships . Most of them were barges , brigs , skids and gaff schooners , some of which were built for their own account. The majority of the ships were sold to Hamburg shipowners such as Laeisz , C. Woermann , Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Son to be sold.
- In 1841 the barque St. Pauli was built near Marbs.
- The wooden paddle steamer Leeds was built in 1842 for the Hanseatische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft in Hamburg and later known as the Radkorvette Bremen .
- As the last ship, the Maria Magdalena was delivered in 1878 with 580 register tons by the son JH Marbs.
Radkorvette Bremen
The Radkorvette Bremen was a ship of the first German Reichsflotte , which was set up by Karl Rudolf Brommy as commander in chief. She was built in 1842 at the Johann Marbs shipyard as a cargo ship Leeds for the Hanseatische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft and bought on June 23, 1848 by the Hamburg Admiralty for the Hamburg flotilla . In the autumn of 1848 the Reichsflotte took over the ship under the name Bremen . In 1852 it was sold to the General Steam Navigation Company , London. From 1853 to 1865 it sailed as a freighter in Hanover , later it was used as a coal hulk .