Nal (ship, 1892)
 The Nal
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The Nal was a four-masted steel barque that was lost at Cape Horn in 1922 .
Construction and technical data
The ship was launched in January 1892 at the shipyard of Grangemouth Dockyard Co. in Alloa at the Firth of Forth in Scotland for J. Herron & Co. in Liverpool from the stack and was given the name of Lord Ripon . She was the sister ship of Lord Brassey, also built by Grangemouth in 1891 .
The barque was 96.92 m long and 13.16 m wide, had a 7.44 m draft and was measured with 2,765 GRT and 2,627 NRT . She was rigged with split Mars and Bramsail , royal and sky sails and sailed at least 33 sails .
fate
The Lord Ripon sailed all the oceans in the world, and in her voyages she was often at sea for more than three months. In 1893 she sailed from Calcutta to New York in 98 days , in 1894 from Barry (Wales) to Rio de Janeiro in 93 days and from Calcutta to Lizard Point in Cornwall in 104 days . In 1896 she traveled 107 days from Sydney to London, and in 1897 she covered the reverse route in 83 days.
In 1898 the ship was sold to the shipping company "Visurgis" AG in Bremen , which in that year finally switched from wooden to steel tall ships and renamed Nal . Like the other ships of the "Visurgis", the Nal was mostly on two routes: it brought coal or general cargo to China and Japan and on the return journey grain from California and Oregon to Europe, or it brought wood from Sweden and Norway to Australia , then coal from Newcastle (New South Wales) to Chile and from there saltpeter to Europe.
After the outbreak of the First World War , the Nal was interned for the duration of the war in 1914 in the Chilean saltpeter port of Caleta Coloso , a few kilometers south of Antofagasta . After the end of the war, she was delivered to France as spoils of war , but there was no interest in the now aged ship, which was only minimally cared for with on-board resources during the long lay-up period . It was sold to England for £ 2,500 and was bought in 1921 by the Baltic and White Sea Trade and Shipping Ltd. in Danzig .
After being put into service in Danzig, the Nal sailed to Scotland, where she picked up a load of coke in Leith . From there on June 10, 1922, she set sail for Chile. After an unforeseen stopover in Bahía Blanca ( Argentina ) in October for repairs and refreshment of water and provisions, she sailed further south in mid-December.
On January 12 or 13, a leak was discovered in the forecastle that could not be repaired with on-board resources. On January 16, 1923, the Nal was between False Cape Horn or the Hardy Peninsula and the island of Wollaston northwest of Cape Horn when it became so bow-heavy due to the ingress and further penetration of water that it was no longer steerable. Captain Schlata let the crew get into the boats and the Nal drifted away, still partly under sail. The weather was good, and the boats, sailing and rowing, reached a sheep farm on the nearby island of Hoste , whose Scottish owners dragged them to Ushuaia a few days later . There the men were picked up by the Cap Polonio of Hamburg Süd , which was just traveling to Tierra del Fuego , and brought to Buenos Aires , where they arrived on February 2nd. From there they drove with the Vigo of Hamburg Süd to Hamburg, which they reached on March 22, 1923.
The Nal was sighted on the morning of Jan. 17 from an Argentinean patrol boat on a rock lying firmly and boarded, but then leave again because of emerging severe weather. She is said to have been sighted again on January 20th, drifting under sail, and has been missing since then.
Web links
- Danzig Seeschiff, No. 13, Hamburg, 2007, p. 1.
- R. Matthiesen: 1922: The Nal lost off Cape Horn , in: Danziger Seeschiff, No. 2, Hamburg, 2004, pp. 4–5.
- Photo of Lord Ripon in Sydney 1897
Footnotes
- ↑ Nal (or Laufey ) is the mother of the Asen god Loki in Norse mythology .
- ^ Architects and Engineers Association, Bremen: Bremen and its buildings , Schünemann, Bremen, 1900, p. 675.
- ↑ The shipping company was after the First World War in London in exile living, originally from Archangelsk timber exporters operating Russian founded as a subsidiary of its White Sea Steamship & Trading Co. It acquired two steel barges and a steamboat and was after the loss of two of these ships soon liquidated again ( Danziger Seeschiff, No. 12, Hamburg, 2007, p. 3 ).