Line service from Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Son

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Advertisement by Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Sohn in February 1850 in the stock exchange hall in Hamburg
Advertisement for the liner shipping of Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Son, advertisement in the South Australian newspaper , January 6, 1865

The Hamburg trading house Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Sohn began to set up a liner service with regular ship connections from 1850 under the direction of Johan Cesar Godeffroy . Starting from Hamburg, destinations in Australia , Chile and California were approached by sailing ships. Many of the vehicles used were built at the Reiherstieg shipyard , which the company had acquired in 1849. As part of a larger construction series, the prerequisites for liner shipping were created here. At the beginning of 1857, Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Sohn 27 ships with a total transport capacity of 4961 commercial loads and thus had the largest fleet among Hamburg's shipping companies.

history

The failure of the German Revolution of 1848/1849 and gold discoveries in California (from 1848), in Victoria (from 1850), New South Wales (1851) and Queensland (from 1853) drove many people to emigrate. With numerous advertisements in newspapers, Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Sohn advertised emigrants and freight orders for the sailing ships in German-speaking countries. After sending three emigration ships to Australia in 1848 and 1849, regular scheduled services began in April 1850, initially with 12 sailing ships. For the year 1852 the company took on a contractual obligation to ship 2,000 emigrants to Australia. A branch was opened in Melbourne under the direction of Otto Neuhauss for the purpose of organization . In the following years Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Sohn each took ten to twelve large ships to the colony of South Australia. B. Amsberg & Co were the exclusive agents here. In 1861 they took over the earliest transports of Holstein and Saxon sheep for breeding purposes.

At the same time, 1852 marked the beginning of a peak period in the transport of German emigrants to Sydney. In the city stood Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Sohn initially in connection with the businessman Adolph Feez . In the years that followed, the agencies switched to Kirchner & Co, JB Metcalfe and Dreutler & Co. In 1861, Rabone, Feez & Co , emerged from A. Feez & Co. founded by Adolph Feez, with the sale of passage tickets for the ships of the line and commissioned a placement of immigrants as labor for the Australian market. From 1862 the house appeared in the colony of New South Wales as a general agent for the shipping line.

In Queensland, Australia, JC Heussler & Co took over an emigration agency for individual ships ( Johan Cesar and Peter Godeffroy ) from 1864 . In 1867, the owner, Johann Christian Heussler, became the trustee for passage money from prospective immigrants to Queensland. In 1869 his company received an exclusive license to sell passage tickets for Godeffroy's liner service.

The ships in Hamburg were handled by the company Dieseldorff & Co. Johann Peter Daniel Dieseldorff (1826–1887) had stayed in Australia for some time and wrote a book about his experiences. The shipbrokers were Knöhr & Burchard, JD Schirmer's successor , Cellier & Parrau and Friedr. Brödermann is responsible for the chartering.

The trips to California began to be unprofitable from 1857 and were discontinued. In 1867 the frequencies to Australia were also reduced. Due to economic crises at the end of 1879, Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Sohn and, as a result, the line service was shut down.

Quotes

“Regular parcel and passenger trips of the large frigate ships named afterwards of Messrs. Johann Cesar Godeffroy u. Son in Hamburg to Port Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney in Australia. [...] All ships are specially built for this voyage and equipped to the most functional. In April 1850 the above will begin regular voyages. "

- W. Kirchner : Australia and its advantages for emigrants

"Direct Line of Hamburg and Australian Clipper Packets, sailing from Hamburg twice a month [...] The undersigned can confidently recommend the splendid line of packets, belonging to the eminent firm of Messrs. John Cesar Godeffroy and Son, of Hamburg."

- F. Haller & Co : Colonial Times

List of ships in liner service

Flag of the shipping company, excerpt from the lithograph flag map of Hamburg Rheder
List of ships in the liner service of Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Son
Surname Type Construction year Shipyard
Adolph brig 1854 Godeffroy's shipyards, Reiherstieg
Adolph brig 1858 Reiherstieg Shipyards & Boilermakers
Alfred Barque 1836 Johann Lange shipyard
Alfred Barque 1842 Lulea
Alfred Barque 1856 Godeffroy's shipyards, Reiherstieg
Alster Barque 1846 Venice
Australia brig 1858 Reiherstieg Shipyards & Boilermakers
Beausite 1854 William Perrine, New York
Cesar & Helene brig 1856 Godeffroy's shipyards, Reiherstieg
Cesar Godeffroy Barque 1851 Godeffroy's shipyards, Reiherstieg
Cesar Godeffroy Barque 1855 Godeffroy's shipyards, Reiherstieg
Cesar Godeffroy Barque 1873 Johann Marbs shipyard
Charlotte More beautiful 1837 Wiborg
Docking dogs Barque 1848 Dreyer shipyard (Neuhof)
Emmy Full ship 1847
Esplanade
Grasbrook brig 1851/53 Gottfried Jacob Franz Krohn, master shipbuilder (Hamburg)
Helene Barque 1851 Godeffroy's shipyards, Reiherstieg
Hermann Barque 1849 Mitzlaff shipyard (Elbing)
Iserbrook brig 1853 Godeffroy's shipyards, Reiherstieg
Johan Cesar Barque 1852 Godeffroy's shipyards, Reiherstieg
Return Schoonerbrigg 1852/53 Johann Jakob Richters shipyard
La Rochelle Full ship 1855 Godeffroy's shipyards, Reiherstieg
Peter Godeffroy Full ship 1851 Weilbach (Stockholm)
Peter Godeffroy Barque 1857 Godeffroy's shipyards, Reiherstieg
Peter Godeffroy Barque 1868 Reiherstieg Shipyards & Boilermakers
Heron climb brig 1852 Godeffroy's shipyards, Reiherstieg
San Francisco Barque 1858 Reiherstieg Shipyards & Boilermakers
Sophie Barque 1850 Godeffroy's shipyards, Reiherstieg
Steinwarder Barque 1848 Dreyer shipyard (Neuhof)
Susanne brig 1850 Godeffroy's shipyards, Reiherstieg
Susanne Godeffroy Full ship 1863 Meyer shipyard (Lübeck)
Vesta brig 1855/56 Somm'sche Werft
Victoria Barque 1839 Somm'sche Werft
Wall cream Full ship 1854 Godeffroy's shipyards, Reiherstieg
Wilhelmsburg Full ship 1853 Godeffroy's shipyards, Reiherstieg

literature

  • Birgit Scheps: The sold museum. The South Sea companies of the trading house Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Sohn, Hamburg, and the “Museum Godeffroy” collections. (Treatises of the Natural Science Association in Hamburg, (NF) 40.) Goecke & Evers, Keltern-Weiler 2005.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Parcel & passenger trip from Hamburg to Adelaide . In: South Australian newspaper . Adelaide January 6, 1865, p. 7 ( nla.gov.au ).
  2. ↑ a b William Kirchner: Australia and its advantages for emigrants . Brönner, Frankfurt am Main 1850, p. 163 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DJGBFMy6Rw1QC~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA163~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D ).
  3. ↑ a b Birgit Scheps: The sold museum: The South Sea companies of the trading house Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Sohn, Hamburg, and the “Museum Godeffroy” collections. (Treatises of the Natural Science Association in Hamburg, (NF) 40.) Goecke & Evers, Keltern-Weiler 2005, p. 15.
  4. ↑ Heinr. C. Schmoock-Smok: Guide to and in Australia . Verlags-Comptoir, Potsdam 1854, p. 102 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3Du0ksAAAAYAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA102~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D ).
  5. ^ Reiherstieg shipyards and machine works, Hamburg . In: Historisch-biographische Blätter . tape  7 , no. 9 . Eckstein's Biographischer Verlag, Berlin 1906 ( resolver.sub.uni-hamburg.de ).
  6. ↑ Dr. JL Schwarz (Ed.): Hamburg's trade in 1856 . Im self-publishing, Hamburg 1857, p. 65 .
  7. ↑ As early as 1841, JC Godeffroy & Sohn had acquired a stake in the German Colonization Society , whose business objective was the settlement of the Chatham Islands .
  8. ↑ a b German Immigration . In: Colonial Times . tape  XLIII , no. 10060 . Hobart August 13, 1855, p. 4 ( nla.gov.au ).
  9. ↑ Parcel and passenger trip from Hamburg to Adelaide . In: South Australian Newspaper . Tanunda and Adelaide May 8, 1867, p.  12 , col. 1 ( nla.gov.au ).
  10. ^ Gabriele Hoffmann: The house on the Elbchaussee: The story of a shipowner family , Piper, Munich 2000, p. 161.
  11. ^ "Regular parcel and passenger trips of the (10) large frigate ships of Messrs. Johann Cäsar Godeffroy and Son in Hamburg. October 1849 “, in: German emigrants , fourth year, January 26, 1850, p. 55, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D2SMR65W3pJIC~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA82~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D
  12. ↑ Peter Godeffroy , Cesar Godeffroy , Emmy , Australia , Alfred (700t), Sophie (April 25, Port Adelaide), Victoria , Dockenhuden , Steinwärder (April 25, Valdivia), Alfred (450t), Adolph (April 15, San Francisco) and Susanne (May 15, Sidney) (advert from March 11, 1850 in Börsen-Halle , page 2)
  13. ^ Gabriele Hoffmann: The house on the Elbchaussee: The story of a shipowner family , Piper, Munich 2000, p. 161 and 164.
  14. ↑ Wilhelm Kirchner was Hamburg Consul in Sidney from 1849 to 1860 and resident there since 1839.
  15. ↑ emigration . Third report of the Hamburg Association for the Protection of Emigrants, submitted to the General Assembly of the Association on March 1, 1854. Hamburg, p.  32-33 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DEJ1AAAAAcAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA32~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D ).
  16. ↑ J [ohann] P [eter] D [aniel] Dieseldorff: Signpost to South Australia, or South Australia in its current form . According to my own experience, portrayed especially for emigrants during a stay of several years. Published by Robert Kittler, Hamburg 1849 ( digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D7igyAQAAMAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPP7~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D ).
  17. ↑ EA Szalla: Flag map Hamburgischer Rheder . FH Nestler & Melle, Hamburg 1879 ( uni-hamburg.de - excerpt from the lithograph).
  18. ↑ Appendix . In: Internationales Register / Germanischer Lloyd 1878, Berlin, p. 4, no. 66
  19. ↑ divergent 1841. "Already owned by the Godeffroy shipping company in 1841": Armin Clasen: The ships emigrated to Chile via Hamburg 1850–75 and the von Somm shipbuilding family . In: Zeitschrift für Niederdeutsche Familienkunde , Volume 38, Issue 1, January 1963, PDF
  20. ↑ In the text of an advertisement in the Börsen-Halle on May 22, 1849, page 2, there is talk of "newly built" ( digitized version )
  21. ↑ Appendix . In: Internationales Register / Germanischer Lloyd 1878 , Appendix , Berlin, p. 149, no. 115
  22. ^ In newspaper advertisements in January 1850 a sailing ship Peter Godeffroy was already announced.
  23. ↑ Appendix . In: Internationales Register / Germanischer Lloyd 1876, Berlin, p. 477, No. 10
  24. ↑ Appendix . In: Internationales Register / Germanischer Lloyd 1876, Berlin, p. 482, No. 94 (shipowner: Schwarz)
  25. ↑ Appendix . In: Internationales Register / Germanischer Lloyd 1876, Berlin, p. 249, no. 123, (different information about the shipyard)

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