Prussia (ship, 1891)
The full ship Prussia (1891–1909) was launched on May 23, 1891 at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg (hull number 81) for the F. Laeisz shipping company as a freighter . She was a three - masted full ship .
It was measured with 1,773 (1,761 according to FL) BRT / 1,670 NRT, was 97 m long overall (according to other information: L 79.7 m, W 12.3 m, D 6.8 M), distinguishing signal RJHS ; the commissioning took place on July 13, 1891. The captains: Carl Emil Friedrich Jürgen Bahlke (1891-1893), Hinrich Schmidt (1893-1896), Richard Boye Petersen (1897-1901, later first captain of the five-masted full ship of the same name), CEFJ Bahlke (1902–1903), Albert Schütt (1904–1906) and Eduard Paulsen (1907–1909) led the fast ship (Etmal 350 nm, journey Iquique – Valparaíso 65 days under Captain RB Petersen 1900). Except for a trip to Brazil, the destination was the Chilean saltpeter ports (see also History of Chile # saltpeter ).
After the new five-masted full ship was given the name Prussia in 1902 , the previous name-bearer was renamed on September 4, 1902 in Posen (after the city of the same name in today's Poland , at that time the capital of the Prussian province of Posen ).
On October 14, 1909, the Posen was lost in a fire on a trip from Hamburg to Valparaíso in the South Atlantic 250 nm east of the coast of Pernambuco (position 8 ° 1 ′ 9 ″ S , 30 ° 10 ′ 42.9 ″ W ). Among other things , she had loaded dynamite , fat and oil, and the fire could no longer be extinguished despite the dynamite boxes being thrown overboard. Captain Eduard Paulsen and his crew were rescued from the lifeboats by the Scottish steamer Earl of Carrick (home port Glasgow ) and brought to Rio de Janeiro .
literature
- Jochen Brennecke: Windjammer. The great report on the development, travels and fate of the "Queens of the Seven Seas" . Koehlers Verlagsges., Herford 1984; ISBN 3-7822-0009-8 .
- Peter Klingbeil: The Flying P-Liner. The sailing ships of the shipping company F. Laeisz . Verlag "Die Hanse", Hamburg 2000, pp. 135-136; ISBN 3-434-52562-9 .
- Basil Lubbock: The Nitrate Clippers . Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow 1932 and 1953 (pp. 62-63).
Web links
- Painting of the poses ex Prussia under maritime sails ( Memento from June 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Data on Prussia on wrecksite.eu
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Georg Prager: Shipping company F. Laeisz . 4th edition. Koehler, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-7822-0880-3 , pp. 213 .