O. Thyen
The O. Thyen was a Oldenburgisches Vollschiff that of the Behrens Shipyard in Harrien, now part of Brake (Unterweser) , was built and from the April 27, 1854 batch ran. The size was 320 commercial loads or 673 register tons , the length 41.4 meters, the width 9.1 meters and the draft 6.2 meters. It belonged to a private shipping company with six members; their correspondent Reeder was from the Ammerland originating merchant Oltmann Thyen , after whom the ship was named. In 1856 the ship was sold to the "Oldenburgische Rhederei-Gesellschaft" which had just been founded in Brake, and in 1867 to the company of Oltmann Thyen in Bremen , who had meanwhile also become consul of the Grand Ducal Oldenburg .
Use and end
In May 1854, the maiden voyage with emigrants led by Captain C. H. Addicks to New York . Further emigration trips led to New Orleans and Galveston . From 1858 the O. Thyen was used in the East India trade and transported u. a. Coal . She suffered several accidents on these trips . So they had in April 1869 on a trip to Batavia , Rio de Janeiro call at a port of refuge. In September 1874 she was caught in a cyclone while traveling from New York to Surabaya , and a man was washed overboard. She had to return to New York because of severe damage. From 1870 to 1878 she was led with short interruptions by Captain Hermann Jordan. On December 11, 1875, the crew of the O. Thyen witnessed the attack on the Moselle in Bremerhaven ; the pressure wave of the explosion was felt on her.
From October 1878 the ship was led by Captain Cato Ulbeto Foget from Leer . On January 21, 1879, it ran from Baltimore to Bremen with 4,000 barrels of petroleum . Due to persistent violent storms, the ship was so badly damaged that it had to be abandoned on February 15, 1879 in the North Atlantic in a sinking state. After a ship's council convened by the captain, the crew decided unanimously to leave the O. Thyen . When the Norwegian barque Amor was sighted under Captain Andreas Nielsen from Kragerö , the distress signal was raised , whereupon the Amor headed for the full ship and took over the castaways.
The wreck of the O. Thyen was set on fire by the captain and helmsman to avoid endangering other ships. Presumably it exploded shortly afterwards due to the explosive charge. The castaways were landed in Plymouth by the Amor . The Bremerhaven Maritime Administration stated in its ruling of March 26, 1879 that leaving the ship was justified and that the ailing condition of the O. Thyen was due to bad weather.
Illustrations
Two illustrations of O. Thyen have survived. The oil painting by an unknown artist, on which the ship is still shown under the Oldenburg flag, is reproduced in Pawlik, p. 428. The O. Thyen is also shown in the oil painting by Carl Justus Harmen Fedeler (1799-1858) ships of the Oldenburgische Rhederei-Gesellschaft , on which the barges Mimi and Schlosser of the shipping company off Dover can be seen next to her . The picture is in the Maritime Museum of the Oldenburg Lower Weser .
literature
- Peter-Michael Pawlik: From the Weser into the world. Volume II: The history of the sailing ships from Weser and Hunte and their shipyards from 1790 to 1926. Elsfleth - Brake - Oldenburg. Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-89757-150-1 , pp. 425-429.
- Stefan Hartmann: Studies on Oldenburg shipping in the middle of the 19th century. In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter. 94th vol., 1976, pp. 38-80.
Web links
- Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild: Ship O. Thyen. O. Thyen's passenger listto New Orleans 1854.
- "A unique document". In: Nordwest-Zeitung . December 27, 2007. About the restoration of the painting by Carl Fedeler "Ships of the Oldenburgische Rhederei-Gesellschaft".