List of significant ship departures and arrivals in Bremerhaven
The ship departures and arrivals in Bremerhaven were and are always of great importance for Bremerhaven as a seaside city. Thousands of onlookers often turned up for significant events.
Port construction
Summary overview:
In 1827, Bremen founded the port of Bremerhaven . It was the Old Harbor until 1830 , the New Harbor from 1847 to 1852 , the Kaiserhafen I from 1876 to 1879 , then the Kaiserschleuse (1897), the Kaiserhäfen II (1907) and III (1909), from 1925 to 1927 the Columbuskaje , from From 1928 to 1931 the Nordschleuse with turning basin, from 1961 to 1964 the ore port and from 1968 to 2008 the container terminal Bremerhaven laid out. (→ See also port group Bremen / Bremerhaven )
In 1845 the Kingdom of Hanover founded the Geestemünde settlement in the south of Bremerhaven and gradually created a port to compete with Bremerhaven until 1874. (→ See Geestemünde # history )
From 1891 to 1896 the fishing port I and from 1921 to 1925 the fishing port II in Geestemünde was built. (→ See fishing port (Bremerhaven) )
List of departures and arrivals
Particularly significant in the history of Bremerhaven were :
1827 to 1945
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1955: Postage stamp from the Berlin , ex Gripsholm
1974: France in Hong Kong
1982: The Polarstern goes on maiden voyage
Sail 2000: Windjammers meeting
2009: Queen Victoria
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2012: The container ship CMA CGM Marco Polo
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2015: The world's largest container ship MSC Oscar
- In 1827, on April 26th, the Swedish sloop Lyk good Hab was the first ship to call at the Geestehafen in Bremer-Haven after the signing of the State Treaty .
- From 1827 to 1833 the paddle steamer Die Weser - the first steamship built by a German shipbuilder and operated by a German shipowner - runs regularly between Bremen, Vegesack and Bremerhaven.
- In 1830, on September 12th, the American schooner Draper under Captain Hillert was the first ship to sail to the outer harbor. This officially opened the port operations in Bremerhaven. In 1830 a further 18 ships called at the port, 12 of them from Bremen.
- In 1837, on July 1st, the seaside resort traffic began with the steamship William IV to Norderney and Heligoland .
- In 1840 the first fishing vessels moored at the quay on the Geeste in Geestemünde.
- 1847, June 19, 1800 put the BRT big wheel steamer Washington , a steamer for 182 passengers of the Ocean Steam Navigation Company , at the Old Port. This started passenger traffic between Bremerhaven and the United States .
- From 1849 to 1852/53, the first German navy was under Admiral Brommy in Bremerhaven. In 1851 the war fleet made the first passage from the old to the new harbor. The ships were auctioned here in 1853.
- In 1853 70,000 and in 1854 76,875 emigrants left Europe via what is now the largest emigration port on the continent.
- In 1857, on July 12th, the Washington left Bremerhaven for the last time.
- In 1858, on June 19, the regular liner service to New York began with the 2674 GRT steamship Bremen I and the New York of North German Lloyd (NDL).
- In 1868, March 1st, Lloyd began a line to Baltimore .
- In 1869, on June 15, the two ships Germania and Hansa cast off for the Second German North Polar Expedition .
- In 1870, on September 12th, Germania returned.
- In 1875, on March 1st, the Lloyd steamer Hohenzollern opened the line to Brazil and La Plata .
- In 1881, on June 26th, the 4511 GRT Lloyd steamer Elbe started the express steamer service to New York in eight days.
- In 1885, on February 7th, the first German fish steamer, the Sagitta of the shipowner Friedrich Busse , began its maiden voyage .
- In 1885, on September 14th, the world's first overseas tanker , the Andromeda from the pioneer of tanker shipping Wilhelm Anton Riedemann , sailed from Geestemünder Petroleumhafen to New York.
- In 1886, on July 13th, a tanker with a steam engine, the Glückauf von Riedemann, was sent from Geestemünde to the USA.
- In 1886, on June 30th, the first imperial mail steamer, the 3,158 GRT Oder from the NDL , sailed from Bremerhaven to East Asia (China). The NDL has carried out this line for the German Empire since 1886 .
- In 1886, on July 14th, the 3,084 GRT Salier from the NDL opened the Reichspostdampferlinie to Australia .
- In 1887 the first fish steamer of the Bremerhaven fish market, the Vigilant , started its fishing trip from the old harbor .
- In 1891, on March 24th, the German-American sea mail , founded by Postmaster General Heinrich von Stephan , carried the Havel Post from Bremerhaven to the USA on the Lloyd express steamer .
- In 1892, at the beginning of March, the 3,822 GRT five-masted barque Maria Rickmers left Geestemünde on her first and last voyage, because she sank during this voyage.
- In 1894 1045 seagoing ships with 352,977 GRT called at the port of Geestemünde.
- In 1896, on November 11th, the 10,531 GRT imperial mail steamer Friedrich the Great started its Australian service on its maiden voyage via Suez to Sydney .
- In 1897, the 14,350 GRT express steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Große of the NDL won the Blue Ribbon as the world's largest ship for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 5 days, 22 hours and 30 minutes at 22.35 knots (≈ 41 km / h).
- In 1900, on June 30th, Kaiser Wilhelm II took leave of the ship Kaiser Wilhelm II of the NDL with troops to China to put down the Boxer Rebellion . He gave his notorious Huns speech .
- In 1902, the four-chimney express steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm left the NDL Bremerhaven and won the Blue Ribbon on the West Passage from Bremerhaven / Kaiserhafen to New York / Hoboken .
- In 1902, on November 1st, the first "banana steamer" was cleared in Bremerhaven.
- In 1902 the first fisheries research ship , the Poseidon , set sail from Geestemünde.
- In 1904 Kaiser Wilhelm II of the NDL also won the Blue Ribbon with 23.58 kn for the east crossing from USA to Bremerhaven.
- In 1907, on August 6th, the 19,503 GRT Lloyd express liner Kronprinzessin Cecilie made the first voyage to New York.
- In 1911, on May 4th, the three-master left Germany Bremerhaven for the Second German Antarctic Expedition under the direction of the researcher Wilhelm Filchner .
- In 1916, on August 23, the merchant submarine reached Germany under Captain Paul König (NDL) after crossing the Atlantic and overcoming the sea blockade of the Royal Navy Bremerhaven.
- In 1919, on March 26th, all merchant ships in the port had to be delivered.
- 1920, on February 3, the 19,802 GRT passenger steamer Johann Heinrich Burchard and then Limburgia of the Tecklenborg shipyard, sold to the Netherlands, secretly left the Kaiserhafen against the violent British military interventions for transfer to Amsterdam. It then ran under the name Brabantia and from 1931 as Reliance .
- In 1920, on August 18, after the war, the 10,058 GRT American Susquehanna (until 1917 Rhine from NDL) docked as the first passenger ship in the outer port of the Kaiserschleuse.
- In 1922, on February 12th, the NDL was able to resume liner operations to the USA with the combined cargo and passenger ship Seydlitz .
- In 1922, on March 9th, the NDL resumed its East Asian service with the freighter Silesia .
- On April 3, 1923, the 18,940 GRT passenger steamer Ohio of the RML was in service in North America.
- In 1923, on March 7th, the Baltimore- Galveston line reopened with the steamer Erfurt .
- In 1924, on April 22nd, the 32,565 GRT passenger ship Columbus set sail for New York. Paul von Hindenburg visits the Columbus.
- 1929, on July 16, the 51,656 GRT NDL turbine ship Bremen IV won the Blue Ribbon in 4 days, 18 hours and 17 minutes at a speed of 27.91 knots while sailing from the quay to New York under Captain Leopold Ziegenbein .
- In 1930, on March 19, the 49,746 GRT passenger steamer, the Europe of the NDL, followed; she also won the Blue Ribbon in 4 days, 17 hours and 24 minutes.
- In 1934, on July 14th, the first KdF ship of the German Labor Front (DAF), the 11,430 GRT Der Deutsche (ex Sierra Morena ) from NDL, cast off from the quay with 1000 passengers for Madeira .
- In 1936, on March 28th, the airship , the Zeppelin D-LZ 129 Hindenburg , flew over Wesermünde .
- In 1936, on July 24th, the Schleswig-Holstein liner docks at the quay while visiting the fleet.
- In 1936, on September 6th, the whaling mother ship Jan Wellem set sail with its six fishing boats for whaling in the Southern Ocean . The third largest whaling fleet was created.
- In 1939, on December 13th, the Bremen from NDL under Commodore Adolf Ahrens from New York finally reached Bremerhaven after breaking through the Atlantic via Murmansk .
- 1940, on April 7th, ten destroyers left for Operation Weser Exercise in Narvik . They were sunk there.
- In 1941 the fish steamer Weser, converted into the first modern German fishing and factory ship, left Bremerhaven.
After 1945
- In December 1945 operations began again at Columbuskaje. A total of 95 US troop carriers such as the General Hary Taylor (87x) initially, General Simon B. Buckner (141x), General William O. Darby (184x), General Alexander M. Patsch (157x), later the Upshur (more than 100x) or most recently the General Maurice Rose (201x) called Bremerhaven until August 1966.
- On November 16, 1949, after the war, the Norwegian British Columbia Express , 3339 GRT, was the first “banana steamer” to unload 72,000 bunches of bananas. From 1949 to 1985, around 500 reefer vessels moored around 5000 times. The largest “banana steamer” was the 8413 GRT Bremerhaven 2 owned by Union-Reederei , and with 162 voyages, Bremerhaven 1 made the most landings.
- In 1950, on October 27th, the Gripsholm from Svenska-Amerika-Lines was the first passenger ship to dock at the quay after the Second World War . From 1955 it was the Berlin of the NDL.
- In 1951, on April 21, the Greek Line opened the liner service from Bremerhaven to Canada with the 10,519 GRT Neptunia .
- 1951, on November 3rd, the 26,454 GRT steam turbine ship SS America , the flagship of the United States Lines at the time and carrying 1,200 passengers, arrived. She moored at the quay 190 times by 1964.
- 1953, on January 3, the 53,329 GRT large, new passenger, turbine and flagship, the SS United States of the United States Lines arrived, which could carry passengers in 1928. She was the last ship of the line to win the Blue Ribbon with a speed of 35.59 knots. It was supposed to call at Bremerhaven 167 times by 1969.
- In 1955, on March 3rd, the 999 GRT fishing research vessel Anton Dohrn was put into service in the presence of Federal President Theodor Heuss .
- 1954, in May, the old bathing steamer Glückauf resumed its regular service to Helgoland .
- 1955, on April 30th, was the first departure of the 12,575 GRT Seven Seas (ex Nelly ) from Bremerhaven.
- In 1955 the renewed 17,993 GRT Berlin (ex Gripsholm ) of the NDL left Bremerhaven.
- In the fall of 1957, the American aircraft carrier Forrestal moored in the port in Osthafen .
- In 1958 the US troop carrier General G. M. Randall arrived in Bremerhaven. Tens of thousands of fans greeted the arrival of Elvis Presley .
- In 1959, the 32,336 GRT Bremen (ex Pasteur ) was sent on a journey by the NDL from the Columbuskaje .
- In 1960 the then largest (7,773 ts) and nuclear-powered submarine , the Triton of the United States Navy , visited Bremerhaven.
- In 1964, the world's first nuclear-powered merchant ship, the 22,000 ts Savannah , moored in Bremerhaven on her maiden voyage.
- In 1964, the ore port was opened with the arrival of the first ore steamer, the Inge , with 30,000 tons of iron ore from Sweden.
- In 1966, on January 9th, 30,000 onlookers experienced the first departure of the 21,511 GRT Europe (ex Kungsholm ) of the NDL.
- In 1966, on May 23, the 7,688 GRT ocean-going ferry Prins Hamlet sailed from Prinsenlinje in Sweden to Harwich for the first time . From 1968 to 1982 around 80 to 130,000 passengers were carried annually from the Columbuskaje to England.
- In 1966, on May 28th, the 4319 GRT Roland von Bremen of the Bremen shipping company D. Oltmann drove the seaside resort traffic to Heligoland.
- In 1966 the barque Seute Deern was the last wooden tall ship to arrive and moored permanently in the old harbor.
- In 1966, on November 19, the Berlin (ex Gripsholm ) set out from Bremerhaven on her last voyage.
- 1967, on April 17th, the 22,080 GRT Soviet passenger ship Alexandr Pushkin of the Baltic Shipping Co opened the Leningrad - Bremerhaven - Montreal line
- 1968, on January 14th, the largest ship to date, the 170,000 GRT (or tdw) tanker Esso Mercia , calls at Bremerhaven.
- 1968, on June 1st , a new era of container shipping began in Bremerhaven with the first full container ship , the 13,384 GRT Weser-Express of the NDL .
- In 1969, on February 21, the 16,870 GRT nuclear-powered freighter Otto Hahn moored at the Columbuskaje.
- In 1969, on November 1st, the United States liner left Bremerhaven for the last time.
- In 1970, on May 27, the world's largest passenger ship at the time, the 57,607 t France (since 1979 Norway ), docked at Columbus Quay .
- 1970, on June 8th, the England ferry Prins Oberon of the Swedish Prince Line began its journey to Harwich .
- 1972, on January 12th, the Bremen V docks at the quay for the last time; she was sold.
- 1973, on June 1, the Soviet 19,980 GRT passenger ship Mikhail Lermontov of Baltic Shipping Co Bremerhaven called on its maiden voyage.
- In 1975, on October 20, the 2250 GRT fishing research vessel Walther Herwig set off from Bremerhaven on the Federal Republic's first Antarctic expedition.
- 1977, August 25, which met sail training ship of the German Navy , the Bark Gorch Fock their first, four-day visit one in Bremerhaven.
- 1980, April 30, at the left Lloyd Werft converted 70,219-ton former France , now as Norway the shipowner Knut Kloster ( Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL)), as a cruise liner port. At that time she was the largest passenger ship in the world.
- In 1980, on August 14th, the Great Windjammer Parade took place in front of over 100,000 spectators on the Weser.
- In 1981, from March 6th to 11th, the NATO fleet visited with 13 ships from the Atlantic squadron .
- In 1981, on October 4th, the Europa last docked at the quay. She was sold to the Costa Armatori shipping company in Genoa.
- In 1982, the research ship Polarstern of the Alfred Wegener Institute , which was put into service on December 9, left for its maiden voyage to the Antarctic.
- In 1982 the England ferry Princ-Oberon left Bremerhaven for good for Harwich.
- 1983, on June 2nd, the world's largest sailing ship, the Soviet four-masted barque Sedov, visited Bremerhaven on the occasion of the 1983 tall ship parade .
- In 1984, on August 28, the Soviet crusader ship Alexander Pushkin said goodbye, which berthed at the quay for 17 years.
- In 1986 the 829 t heavy Bark Alexander von Humboldt, so named in 1988, was transferred to Bremerhaven.
- In 1986 the Sail Bremerhaven took place for the first time . Sails followed in 1990, 1992 and 1995 before a five-year interval was set for the future.
- 1987, on January 26th, the Swedish Faust (3), one of the largest car freighters in the world with 6151 Japanese cars , docked in the northern harbor. This was the largest number of cars transported in the world. 200 to 350,000 exported cars were handled here annually in the 1980s and 1990s.
- 1987, on 25 April, the 70,327-gt from which was Lloyd-Werft Newly built cruise ship Queen Elizabeth 2 to the Cunard Line ships. This was the largest conversion of a passenger ship in the world to date.
- In 2000 the Windjammertreffen Sail 2000 took place during the Expo 2000 . In the Sail 2010 were more than 240 registered ships from 16 nations and about 1 million visitors saw the Sail.
- In 2006 the largest container ship in the world at the time, the Emma Mærsk , docked at the container terminal with a loading capacity of 11,000 standard containers (TEU) and 170,974 GT .
- In 2009 the 90,049 GT Queen Victoria of the Cunard Line docked twice in Bremerhaven.
- In 2011 the Faust , at that time the largest car freighter in the world with 71,583 GT, stopped at the overseas port.
- In 2011 the Alexander von Humboldt II was christened in Bremerhaven. In the same year, the Bounty II was at the harbor festival, she was damaged while trying to maneuver through the pleasure boat port lock on the port side.
- In 2012, on December 14th, the world's largest container ship with 175,343 GT, the CMA CGM Marco Polo, unloaded its cargo in Bremerhaven for the first time . The 396 meter long ship can transport 16,020 TEU.
- In 2015, on March 5, the world's largest container ship, the MSC Oscar, with a length of 395 meters, a width of 59 meters, a capacity of 192,237 GT and 19,224 TEU, docked in Bremerhaven.
- 2018: Quadruple arrival of all Phoenix cruise ships, Amadea , Artania , Albatros and Germany at Columbuskaje.
literature
- Harry Gabcke , Renate Gabcke, Herbert Körtge, Manfred Ernst: Bremerhaven in two centuries ; Volumes I to III from 1827 to 1991. Nordwestdeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Bremerhaven 1989/1991, ISBN 3-927857-00-9 , ISBN 3-927857-37-8 , ISBN 3-927857-22-X .
Footnotes
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. I, pp. 18f.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. II, p. 66.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. I, pp. 156f, 185.
- ↑ Gabcke, Vol. II, p. 41.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. II, p. 64f.
- ↑ a b Gabcke Vol. III, p. 82f.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. III, pp. 112, 174f.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. II, pp. 88f, 106 and 116.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. I, p. 154, Vol. II, p. 36.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. I, pp. 58f and 68.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. I, pp. 60f and 70.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. I, p. 76f.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. I, p. 162.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. III, p. 60.
- ↑ Gabcke, Vol. I, p. 198.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. II, p. 25.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. III, p. 12f.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. III, pp. 60f.
- ↑ a b Gabcke Vol. III, p. 47.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. III, p. 28f.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. III, p. 46.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. III, p. 58.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. III, pp. 62f.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. III, p. 90.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. III, p. 42f.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. III, p. 153.
- ↑ Gabcke Vol. III, pp. 176f.