Pomerania (ship, 1903)

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Pomerania
Pomerania2009.JPG
Ship data
flag German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire Finland
FinlandFinland 
other ship names
Ship type Freighter
Shipyard J. Reid & Co., Glasgow
Launch February 24, 1903
Commissioning May 1903
Ship dimensions and crew
length
106.5 m ( Lüa )
width 13.2 m
Draft Max. 6.82 m
measurement 2,376 GRT
 
crew 26 men
Rigging and rigging
Rigging Barque
Number of masts 4th
Number of sails 28
Sail area 3,240 m²
Speed
under sail 		Max. 16 kn (30 km / h)
Transport capacities
Load capacity 3,950 dw
Museum ship Pommern in July 2005

The Pomerania is a steel four-masted barque ( windjammer ) built in 1903 under the name Mneme with an anniversary rig . Today she is moored as a museum ship in Mariehamn, Finland, on the Åland Islands.

description

The mneme was launched in 1903 at the J. Reid & Co. shipyard in Glasgow, Scotland, for the Hamburg shipping company B. Wencke Sons (1873–1906), whose tradition was to model their ships according to Greek mythological figures such as Melpomene , Hebe , Erato to name. For cost reasons, the sailor was rigged without a royal sail. Accordingly, she drove an anniversary rig as a four-masted barque: steel masts with mars and bram sticks, split mars and bram sails , no royal sails, mizzen mast as a pole mast (without stern ) with a gaff . The steel hull was black with a white water pass. As a smooth-decker, she had her 1.6 m steering wheel with a wheelhouse attached near the stern.

history

The first four round trips took the ship under the white house flag with black "BW Sne" of the Hamburg shipping company to the saltpeter coast of Chile (coal leaving, saltpeter returning home ). After the death of the shipowner Friedrich Wencke , the son of the company founder Bernhard Wencke , and after the closure of the shipping company according to the last will of the shipowner , the four-masted barque was transferred to the Hamburger Rhederei Actien-Gesellschaft of 1896 and on November 27th, 1906 In the same year it was sold to the F. Laeisz shipping company . Since it was customary for F. Laeisz to give all ships of the shipping company a name beginning with "P" since 1876 (the legendary so-called Flying P-Liner ), the ship was given the name Pommern , by which it is still known today. Under F. Laeisz, Captain Magnus Friedrich Johann Allwardt became her first skipper. In 1911 the Pomerania had a rare collision with another four-masted barque, the British Engelhorn ( JR de Wolf & Son , Liverpool ), which went smoothly - both ships were brought to Hamburg for repairs and were then able to continue their voyage again. In 1914, because of a serious illness, Captain Johann Frömcke had to be released from his 1st officer, Captain Hans Iversen Ravn, who managed the ship until 1921. Until this year she stayed with the famous shipping company, then came to Greece as a war reparation . On 28 May 1923, the Finnish shipping magnate bought Gustaf Erikson the Pomerania . Since then, her home port has been Mariehamn on the Finnish autonomous Åland Islands, and the white house flag of Rederi A / B Gustaf Erikson, drawn with a black “GE” tilted to the left, waved over the ship. She was now driving the wheat journey between Australia and Europe. During the Second World War - it returned shortly before its outbreak on August 21, 1939 from a trip to Australia via the Cape of Good Hope via Hull - it was launched in Mariehamn, moved to Stockholm for safety reasons in the summer of 1944 and as a Granaries used. In 1945 she returned to her home port with a load of grain that was unloaded in Åbo . This was her last trip under the Erikson flag. After Erikson's death on August 15, 1947, his son and his wife Solveig gave the Pomerania to their hometown Mariehamn on January 22, 1953 , where it can still be viewed in its old splendor as a museum ship . The condition was to keep the ship unchanged. The Pomerania was repaired in 1968 after damage to the underwater hull in Åbo's dry dock. In 1975 a presentation took place in Stockholm. In the same year, 1987 and 1996, she underwent further repairs in Stockholm shipyards to ensure her first-class state of preservation - further overhauls followed. She is the only preserved four-masted barque in its original condition, also below deck.

Other four-masted barques that have been preserved are the Laeisz shipping company sisters Passat in Travemünde and the Peking , which is under restoration at Peters Werft until 2020, and the Erikson shipping company sister Viking (former Danish sailing training ship from 1906) in Gothenburg .

Ship data

See also

  • other ships called Pomerania
  • other Flying P-liners still available

literature

  • Ernest R. Clayson: A Round Voyage in the 'SV Pommern' . Sea Breezes Vol. XVIII, 1934, pp. 101-105
  • Hans-Jörg Furrer: The four- and five-masted square sailors in the world . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1984, p. 152 (Mneme); ISBN 3-7822-0341-0
  • JL Loughran: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World . Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., Glasgow 1995; ISBN 0-851746349

Web links

Commons : Pomerania  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 60 ° 5 ′ 49.2 "  N , 19 ° 55 ′ 29.3"  E