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The Omega - until 1898 Drumcliff - was a four-masted barque with a steel hull built in Greenock , Scotland in 1887 . She was used as a freighter for the transport of oil, guano , nitrate , wheat and other goods.
The ship owes its fame mainly to the fact that from 1957, meanwhile in service off the Peruvian coast, it was the last square sailer on a cargo voyage worldwide. Its sinking in 1958 was the last sinking of a cargo-carrying tall ship.
history
The Drumcliff was built at the J. Russell & Co. shipyard in Greenock (Scotland) for Gillison & Chadwick in Liverpool, England. After her launch in January 1887, she was placed under the command of Captain H. Davies.
On July 28, 1898, the Drumcliff was sold to the Hamburger Rhederei Akt. Gesellschaft von 1896 , from which it was renamed Omega . From 1898 to 1905 she sailed under Captain H. Krause, under whom her first long voyage took her around the world: in 1898 she set out from Lizard Point in the south of England for Adelaide in Australia. In the following year it went on to Newcastle (New South Wales) and via the Chilean ports of Tocopilla and Iquique back to Lizard Point. Another long voyage took the ship from Hamburg to Santa Rosalía in the Gulf of California ( Mexico ) and Port Townsend in Washington State in 1905 , before returning to Lizard Point the following year.
From 1906 to 1907 the Omega was subordinated to Captain M. Ratzsch, from 1908 to 1910 he was followed by Captain A. Schellhas. Also under his command, the ship mastered long distances between Europe, South America ( Pisagua and Tocopilla in Chile), Africa ( Port Nolloth in South Africa ) and Australia (Newcastle). From 1910 to 1912 the Omega sailed under Captain G. Oellrich to ports on the west coast of the USA ( San Diego , Portland in Oregon ), in Europe (Hamburg, Rotterdam ), Australia ( Sydney , Newcastle) and South America (Chile). From 1913 to 1914, Captain P. Hammer took command.
During the First World War , the ship was interned in Peru in 1917 . 1918 was as a sail training ship used.
In 1920 the Omega was delivered to Peru as war indemnity and in 1926 it was handed over to the guano company Compania Administradora del Guano in Callao , Peru. From then on, the ship was used for guano transport between offshore islands and the Peruvian mainland.
When in the following decades all tall ships were gradually taken out of service, the Omega became the world's last square sailer to carry freight in 1957 - after the sinking of the Pamir and the decommissioning of the Passat .
On June 26, 1958, while on a voyage from the Pachacamac Islands to Huacho , both in the Lima region , the Omega leaked off the Peruvian coast with a cargo of 3,000 tons of guano and sank. It was the last sinking of a tall ship on a cargo voyage.
Technical specifications
| length | 94.86 m or 90.96 m |
| Length of foredeck | 38 feet |
| Length of the puppet deck | 36 feet |
| width | 13.16 m |
| displacement | 2,471 long tons |
literature
- Jürgen Meyer: Hamburg's sailing ships 1795-1945. Heinemann, Norderstedt, 1974.
Web links
Footnotes
Large parts of this article are based on the website www.bruzelius.info ( English ), accessed on November 15, 2006. In addition, the following must be stated in detail:
- ↑ www.ageofsail.net (English), accessed on November 15, 2006
- ↑ According to www.bruzelius.info (English; accessed on November 15, 2006) there are different information about the dimensions of the Drumcliff / Omega . According to this, in addition to the dimensions of 94.86 m × 13.15 m × 7.36 m (311'3 × 43'2 × 24'2 in feet ) there is also a source for the dimensions 90.96 m × 13.16 m × 7.47 m.