Pola (ship, 1916)

**Pola**
Ship data
flag	German Empire France;
other ship names	Richelieu
Ship type	Sailing ship , steel hull as a three-island ship
class	Freight sailor, training ship
Callsign	RWGL
home port	Hamburg ; Dunkirk (1921–1924) ; Nantes (1924–1927)
Owner	F. Laeisz; Société des Armateurs Français (1921–1924) ; Société des Navires-Écoles Français (1924–1927)
Shipyard	Blohm & Voss , Hamburg
Build number	233
Launch	October 21, 1916
Commissioning	November 20, 1919
Whereabouts	Wrecked in 1933
Ship dimensions and crew
length	115.6 m ( Lüa ) 96.01 m ( Lpp )
width	14.37 m
Side height	8.55 m
Draft	Max. 7.22 m
displacement	6,668 t
measurement	3,104 GRT
crew	27; under the French flag: 38 tribe + officer cadets
Rigging and rigging
Rigging	Four-masted barque
Number of masts	4th
Number of sails	33
Sail area	4,100 m²
Speed ; under sail	Max. 18 kn (33 km / h)

The Pola was a four-masted barque that was built by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg for F. Laeisz from 1916 to 1919 , but never sailed under the FL flag, but was delivered to France in 1919/1920.

history

As early as 1914, the shipping company F. Laeisz in Hamburg commissioned the Blohm & Voss shipyard to build three four-masted barges. Under construction numbers 233 and 234, Pola (named after the Istrian town of Pola ) was launched in 1916 and Priwall in 1917, but were not completed until 1919 and 1920, respectively, as the construction of sailing ships was suspended in favor of war-related orders as a result of the First World War . The contract for construction number 235 was canceled on May 17, 1915. The Priwall was taken over by F. Laeisz on March 6, 1920, while the Pola (known to be ready to drive when the Versailles peace agreement was signed on June 28, 1919) had to be handed over to France as a reparation payment (November 11, 1919 officially handed over to the Allies). Two tugboats brought the barque to Dunkirk on October 9, 1920 under the leadership of Captain Carl M. Brockhöft . It was here under its new name, Richelieu, until 1923.

After being converted into a training ship , she made her first long voyage. The four-master sailed to Australia under commandant Charles Populaire . A full load of wheat was loaded in Port Lincoln with destination Liverpool . Back in Brest , the ship was tied up for a while until it sailed to Baltimore in 1926 under Captain Jules Emmanuel Denis Cornec . During the loading of crate oil (oil in small steel containers packed in boxes - a solution for transporting oil before tankers existed) an explosion occurred and the ship burned out. Condensed after the fire , the ship served as a barge for a few years and was scrapped in 1933.

literature

Hans Jörg Furrer: The four- and five-mast square sailors in the world . Koehlers Verlagsges. mbH, Herford 1984, p. 166, ISBN 3-7822-0341-0
Hans Jürgen Witthöft: Built by Blohm & Voss. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-7822-0911-7

Web links

Commons : Pola - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Börsen-Halle / from 1905: Hamburg Correspondent and new Hamburg stock exchange hall: Laeisz order. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
^ Witthöft, Hans Jürgen: Tradition and Progress: 125 Years of Blohm + Voss . Koehler, 2002, ISBN 3-7822-0847-1 , p. 524/525 .
^ Neue Hamburger Zeitung: Pola, start of the first trip. Retrieved December 16, 2018 .

[1] Börsen-Halle / from 1905: Hamburg Correspondent and new Hamburg stock exchange hall: Laeisz order. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .

[2] Witthöft, Hans Jürgen: Tradition and Progress: 125 Years of Blohm + Voss . Koehler, 2002, ISBN 3-7822-0847-1 , p. 524/525 .

[3] Neue Hamburger Zeitung: Pola, start of the first trip. Retrieved December 16, 2018 .