Oluf Skjelbred
Oluf Andreas Tollefsen Skjelbred (born March 31, 1854 on Eigerøya near Egersund ( Norway ), † June 24, 1939 in Kristiansand ) was a Norwegian shipowner .
Life
Skjelbred lost both parents when they were only 13 years old. After the death of his parents , he was hired on a small ship as a smutje . Later he was a sailor on various schooners . In 1875 he passed the officer's examination at the Jensen and Tellefsens helmsman school in Kristiansand.
In 1876 he took part in the purchase of the Bark Neutral (263 GRT), built in Falmouth (Massachusetts) in 1846 , of which he became the captain and which he took over in 1878 as the sole owner. In the following years he sailed as captain on three other sailing ships until he gave up shipping in 1894.
He settled in Kristiansand and became a shipowner and partner in the Thorstensen shipyard in Lund , where he had the schooner Solstreif (273 GRT) built in 1895 , and a partner in Høllen Skibsverft in Høllen , where he was manager of the construction of the steamboat Eros (1900, 454 BRT) and the motor schooner Arctic (1909, 294 BRT) acted. In the years up to 1914 he steadily expanded his ship portfolio by selling older ships and acquiring newer and larger ones. In 1914 he owned a sailor and four steamers with a total of 8245 GRT. In August 1915 a 2670 GRT freighter was added, but at the end of the war it had lost its entire fleet through sale (two ships) or enemy action (three ships) except for the old steamer Gloria (1880, 735 GRT).
In 1919 he converted his shipping company into a joint stock company , Skjelbreds Rederi AS . In 1939 it owned the most modern merchant fleet in Norway with a total of 25 freighters and tankers that were used in tramp shipping .
In 1930 his son-in-law Kristian Knudsen (1877–1961) joined Skjelbreds Rederi as co-director; he took over the shipping company after Oluf Skjelbred's death in 1939.
As early as 1917, Skjelbred had taken the initiative to found a sailing school ship association, the Sørlandets Seilende Skoleskibs Institution, but it wasn't until 1927 that it was financed by donations and at the Høivolds Mek shipyard. Verksted built in Kristiansand and propelled today Segelschulschiff Sørlandet be put into service.
Web links
literature
- Johannes Seland: Rederen and skipet. Kristiansand and Mandal from ropes to damp and diesel. Christanssands Rederforening, Kristiansand, 1959 (norweg.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Skjelbred, Oluf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Skjelbred, Oluf Andreas Tollefsen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian shipowner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eigerøya near Egersund ( Norway ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1939 |
| Place of death | Kristiansand |