Pisagua (ship)
The Pisagua was a four-masted steel barque owned by the F. Laeisz shipping company and belonged to the famous Flying-P-Liner fleet .
Launch and most important data
The 2850 GRT ship was built in 1892 at the Joh. C. Tecklenborg shipyard in Geestemünde . It was 95 meters long and 13.58 meters wide and had a draft of 7.94 meters. The Pisagua was measured at 2,850 GRT. It sailed the seas from 1892 to 1913. It was named after the city of Pisagua in Chile .
South America service and circumnavigation
His maiden voyage led under Captain J. Früdden in 92 days to Valparaíso (Chile) and on to Iquique . In the following years it was used exclusively between Europe and Chile. It was not until 1897 that the Pisagua went on a world tour via Calcutta to Boston and Philadelphia before she sailed home via Iquique into the Elbe estuary.
Accident, sale and stranding
The Pisagua's lucky streak ended in 1912: on March 16, she rammed the British passenger liner Oceana of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at Beachy Head on the English south coast through no fault of her own , which had driven her on the course. The Oceana sank, the Pisagua had to be brought in to Dover for repairs .
In June 1912 the barque was sold to the Norwegian shipping company A / S Örnen in Sandefjord and converted into a whaler . On February 12, 1913 , the Pisagua stranded while traveling to her fishing grounds off Low Island , one of the South Shetland Islands .
