Nordstjernan (ship, 1871)
The Nordstjernan was originally a coastal cargo ship , which from 1900 operated as a mail and passenger ship on the later royal line between Sweden and Germany and finally as a combined ship between Finland and Sweden.
Construction and technical data
The ship ran in 1871 on the shipyard of Motala Verkstad in Norrköping with the hull number 176, stack . It was delivered to the Västernorrlands Ångbåtsbolag shipping company in Sundsvall in December 1871 . The ship was 61.44 m long and 8.35 m wide and had a draft of 4.6 m . It was measured with 788 GRT and 341 NRT and had a load capacity of 220 tons . A 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engine with 160 hp enabled a top speed of 13 knots . In 1888 the engine system was replaced, increasing the top speed to 15 knots.
history
Coastal freighter
The Nordstjernan began its service on May 7, 1872 on the Stockholm-Sundsvall- Härnösand - Örnsköldsvik route . In 1893 she collided with the small steamboat Gerda on the Ångermanälven , which sank with 11 people on board. In 1896 she collided with the sailing ship Vigilant near Sundsvall. A hastily formed Sundsvall partnership under the leadership of Albert WW Nordling, which acquired Nordstjernan on 30 May 1896, preceded the sale of the ship to a group of Stockholm investors . Nevertheless, the ship in the Sundsvall region only survived for a few years.
Mail steamer
On April 2, 1900, the ship was bought by the Sverige-Kontinenten shipping company of the two Swedish half-brothers Gustaf Oscar Wallenberg and Knut Agathon Wallenberg from Stockholm as a replacement for their flagship Rex , which ran aground on February 27, 1900 near Nardevitz on Rügen and had to be given up. The Nordstjernan was quickly converted for her new role as a mail steamer , with cabin seats for 122 passengers , and from May 1, 1900, she was used on the forerunner of the so-called royal line between Trelleborg and Sassnitz . On the bow of the ship, her name was now given with the word “Nord” and a star. The Nordstjernan was not an equivalent substitute for the much larger Rex and in terms of equipment hardly matched the other ships on the mail steamer line operated jointly with the Stettiner steamship company JF Braeunlich . She offered little comfort for her passengers and she got rolling quickly in rough seas ; their lifeboats hung outboard in the davits and often touched the sea as they taxi.
When the second ship on the Sverige continents, the side paddle steamer Svea , broke down due to lengthy repairs in 1907 , the Swedish postal administration terminated its contract with the Wallenberg shipping company and instead signed the Sverige-Tyskland shipping company from Malmö , which had two steamers, the Prinsessan Margareta and Prins Gustaf Adolf , who got on the mail steamer line. The Nordstjernan was then launched in Malmö .
Baltic Sea Freight Service
On March 2, 1910, Rolf FW Müller from Świnoujście bought the ship, renamed it Nordstern and set it in motion on various Baltic Sea routes (Świnoujście - Bornholm - Ystad - Malmö - Copenhagen ). Already on April 9, 1912, the ship was sold to the Dampfschifffarts-AG Transito in Turku , which from May 13, 1912 again under the name Nordstjernan on the Turku – Hanko - Lübeck route and from 1913 on the Turku – Stockholm route let. On May 21, 1918 she was bought by the Finnish shipping company Höyrylaiva Bore in Turku and renamed Bore . She received new superstructures and a hull reinforcement in order to be able to serve as an icebreaker , and operated on the Turku - Mariehamn - Stockholm route, partly between Helsinki and Stockholm, until September 12, 1955 , and was sold for scrapping in September 1955.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Captain Ericsson reports on his experiences on and with the mail steamers
- ↑ Statens Järnvägar Färjerederiet (Swedish)
- ^ The Trelleborg-Sassnitz mail steamer service was short-lived. It was replaced by the new railway ferry line in 1909.
- ^ Bore Dampfschiffsgesellschaft, http://www.timetableimages.com/maritime/images/bore.htm
- ↑ Nordstjernan, at www.sjohistoriska.se ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
