Princess Louise

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The Prussian trading frigate Princess Louise on a watercolor around 1830

The Princess Louise was a Prussian merchant ship built in Bremen , which was owned by the Royal Prussian Maritime Trading Company and carried out six circumnavigations between 1826 and 1844 .

Construction and equipment

The Princess Louise was built from 1823 to 1824 at Jürgen Sager's shipyard in Vegesack . The ship was launched on August 23, 1824. It was a full ship with 262 Prussian loads as loading capacity and was also called a merchant frigate at the time. Princess Louise , the youngest daughter of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III , acted as the namesake of the ship . The keel length of the ship was about 29 meters, the width between the mountain timbers about 8.40 meters. The depth of the space between the abdominal floorboards and the lowest upper deck beam was about 5 meters. According to a rough estimate, the ship was designed between 300 and 400 register tons and had a maximum load capacity between 400 and 500 tons. There were twelve cannons on board for self-defense against pirates. In addition, a sufficient number of rifles with bayonets, pistols, blunderbusses, sabers, storm lances and pioneer side guns were taken on the trips.

Calls

The ship was owned by the brothers Friedrich & Everhard Delius in Bremen from 1824 to 1825. Under the leadership of Captain Carsten Dehls, the Princess Louise made her first voyage across the Atlantic to New York. On July 6, 1825, Everhard Delius announced to the Bremen Senate that the Princess Louise had been sold to the Prussian Maritime Trading Company. The total value was 36,300 Reichstaler . The Prussian maritime trade had good relations with the merchant Everhard Delius, one of the two company owners of the Bremen trading house Delius, as Delius was the Prussian consul in Bremen and also took care of the maritime trade in Bremen. The Princess Louise undertook a total of six circumnavigations of the world from 1826 to 1844 as the successor to Mentor . Between her circumnavigations of the world, the Princess Louise was used on trading voyages in the Atlantic and made four trips to the Caribbean, three to New Orleans and three to Rio de Janeiro.

Six circumnavigations of the world

First circumnavigation

  • 1st circumnavigation of the Princess Louise from October 13, 1825 (or February 27, 1826) to August 10, 1829: Captain: Johann Andreas Harmssen from Bremen, helmsman Johann Wilhelm Wendt , supercargo William O'Swald .
    • 13 October 1825 departure from Swinoujscie and on 23 October 1825 stopover in Arendal because of a storm . Long stay due to necessary repairs
    • December 1, 1825 departure from Arendal and because of a mistake by the pilot after an accident on the outer cliffs of the port of Arendal, the ship in Kristiansand again urgently needed to be stopped and repaired
    • 27 April 1826 departure from Kristiansand and on 26 June 1826 arrival in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
    • 17 August 1826 departure from Rio de Janeiro and on 15 October 1826 arrival in Valparaíso (Chile)
    • March 1, 1827 departure from Valparaíso and arrival in Coquimbo (Chile) on March 4, 1827
    • March 20, 1827 departure from Coquimbo and arrival in Arica (Chile) on March 28, 1827
    • April 10, 1827 departure from Arica and arrival in Quilea (Peru) on April 13, 1827
    • May 18, 1827 departure from Quilea and arrival in Callao (Peru) on May 27, 1827
    • June 6, 1827 departure from Callao and arrival in Huanchaco (Peru) on July 9, 1827
    • 26 July 1827 departure from Huanchaco and 30 July 1827 arrival in Guayaquil (Ecuador)
    • 23 August 1827 departure from Guayaquil and 29 September 1827 arrival in Valparaíso (Chile)
    • 22nd October 1827 departure from Valparaíso and 19th November 1827 arrival in Islay (Peru)
    • December 1, 1827 departure from Islay and arrival in Callao (Peru) on December 6, 1827
    • December 31, 1827 departure from Callao ... and arrival in Honolulu ( Kingdom of Hawaii ) on February 5, 1828
    • March 5, 1828 departure from Honolulu and arrival in Canton (China) on April 12, 1828
    • January 18, 1829 departure from Canton and arrival in Manila (Philippines) on January 19, 1829
    • Departure from Manila on February 13, 1829 and arrival in Singapore on February 26, 1829 ( British East Indies )
    • Departure from Singapore on March 5, 1829 and arrival in Anyer ( Netherlands Indies ) on March 21, 1829
    • March 23, 1829 departure from Anyer and arrival in St. Helena on June 3, 1829
    • June 7, 1829 departure from St. Helena and arrival in Cuxhaven on August 2, 1829
    • August 10, 1829 arrival in Hamburg-Altona

Second circumnavigation

  • 2. Circumnavigation of the Princess Louise from September 8, 1830 to April 19, 1832: Captain: Johann Wilhelm Wendt (1802–1847). On this trip were u. a. hired as crew members the doctor and naturalist Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen and the later Chilean governor Bernhard Eunom Philippi .
    • 8 September 1830 departure from Hamburg and 16 November 1830 arrival in Rio de Janeiro
    • 21 November 1830 departure from Rio de Janeiro and 21 January 1831 arrival in Valparaíso
    • March 6, 1831 departure from Valparaíso and arrival in Copiapo on March 10, 1831
    • March 20, 1831 departure from Copiapo and arrival in Arica on March 26, 1831
    • Departure from Arica on April 10, 1831 and arrival in Islay on April 12, 1831
    • Departure from Islay on April 26, 1831 and arrival in Callao on May 1, 1831
    • Departure from Callao on May 21, 1831 and arrival in Honolulu on June 24, 1831
    • July 2, 1831 departure from Honolulu and arrival in Cape Shui Mun (Hong Kong) on ​​August 15, 1831
    • September 3, 1831 departure from Cape Shui Mun and arrival in Manila on September 14, 1831
    • Departure from Manila on October 17, 1831 and arrival in Lintin (Hong Kong) on November 5, 1831
    • Departure from Lintin on December 12, 1831 and arrival in St. Helena on February 14, 1832
    • February 15, 1832 departure from St. Helena and arrival in Cuxhaven on April 19, 1832

Third circumnavigation

  • 3rd circumnavigation of the Princess Louise from December 9th, 1832 to May 20th, 1834 (Captain: JW Wendt)
    • December 29, 1832 departure from Hamburg and arrival in Valparaíso on April 18, 1833
    • May 18, 1833 departure from Valparaíso and arrival in Arica on May 27, 1833
    • Departure from Arica on June 9, 1833 and arrival in Callao on June 14, 1833
    • Departure from Callao on July 15, 1833 and arrival in Honolulu on August 25, 1833
    • Departure from Honolulu on September 1, 1833 and arrival in Manila on October 15, 1833
    • 8 November 1833 departure from Manila and 19 November 1833 arrival in Canton
    • 23 January 1834 departure from Canton and on 20 March 1834 arrival in St. Helena
    • March 26, 1834 departure from St. Helena and arrival in Cuxhaven on May 20, 1834

Fourth circumnavigation

  • 4th circumnavigation of the Princess Louise from November 19, 1836 to June 12, 1838 (Captain: JT Rodbertus)
    • 19 November 1836 departure from Hamburg and 13 December 1836 arrival in Portsmouth
    • Departure from Portsmouth on December 23, 1836 and arrival in Valparaíso on March 24, 1837
    • April 20, 1837 departure from Valparaíso and arrival in Cobija on April 25, 1837
    • May 2, 1837 departure from Cobija and arrival in Arica on May 5, 1837
    • Departure from Arica on May 19, 1837 and arrival in Callao on May 25, 1837
    • Departure from Callao on June 29, 1837 and arrival in Arica on July 13, 1837
    • Departure from Arica on July 18, 1837 and arrival in Iquique on July 25, 1837
    • Departure from Iquique on August 1, 1837 and arrival in Arica on August 2, 1837
    • Departure from Arica on August 5, 1837 and arrival in Callao on August 11, 1837
    • Departure from Callao on August 25, 1837 and arrival in Honolulu on September 29, 1837
    • Departure from Honolulu on October 3, 1837 and arrival in Canton on November 12, 1837
    • Departure from Canton on December 11, 1837 and arrival in Manila on December 16, 1837
    • February 3, 1838 departure from Manila and arrival in Cuxhaven on June 12, 1838

Fifth circumnavigation

  • 5th circumnavigation of the Princess Louise from December 19, 1838 to June 8, 1840 (Captain: JT Rodbertus)
    • 19 December 1838 departure from Hamburg and on 24 March 1839 arrival in Valparaíso
    • April 28, 1839 departure from Valparaíso and arrival in Arica on May 4, 1839
    • Departure from Arica on May 18, 1839 and arrival in Callao on May 23, 1839
    • Departure from Callao on August 16, 1839 and arrival in Honolulu on September 17, 1839
    • Departure from Honolulu on September 24, 1839 and arrival in Canton on November 11, 1839
    • February 10, 1840 departure from Canton (four months before the outbreak of the First Opium War ) and arrival in Hamburg on June 8, 1840

Sixth circumnavigation

  • 6th circumnavigation of the Princess Louise from November 24th 1842 to June 1844 (Captain: JT Rodbertus)
    • November 24, 1842 departure from Hamburg, after 61 days at sea on January 25, 1843 stopover in Santos and on March 27, 1843 arrival in Valparaíso (Chile)
    • May 4, 1843 Arrival in Callao (Peru)
    • 29 August 1843 departure from Callao, after 32 days at sea stopover in Honolulu and on 3 November 1843 arrival in Manila
    • 8 December 1843 arrival in Macau
    • February 3, 1844 Start of the return journey from the Far East via Sundastraße and stopover in St. Helena. A storm in the English Channel hindered travel
    • June 1844 arrival in Cuxhaven

Later missions

On the 15th voyage of the Princess Louise on the return voyage from Rio de Janeiro to Hamburg, Captain Rodbertus died on December 13, 1844 and was buried at sea on December 15, 1844. After the death of Captain Rodbertus, the chief helmsman Johann Christian Ferdinand Schutt took the Princess Louise home in December 1844 . The last in command of the ship under the sea trade was Captain Wilhelm Ferdinand Meyer. At a public auction carried out by Oswald & Co on May 1, 1846, the Princess Louise from the Prussian Maritime Trading Company was sold to Johann Marbs' Hamburg shipyard for 15,050 Courantmarks . Now the Princess Louise sailed under the Hamburg flag and was under the command of Captains H. Bähr and HGD Meufing. Trips were made to the west coast of South America, with emigrants to Australia, the Dutch East Indies, Rio de Janeiro and New York. Marbs sold the ship, which had been converted to a barque, to Norway in 1855. The new owner of the ship was Hans Jacobsen Apeness from Åsgårdstrand . The command was now his son, Captain Jacob Harlef Apeness. In 1862 Hans Christian Erichsen from Svelvik bought the ship, which ran aground on the west coast of Jutland in autumn 1863 and was lost as a wreck. The crew affected by the final accident on the Princess Louise were able to save themselves.

literature

  • Heinrich Berghaus : Six trips around the world of the royal Prussian sea trading ships Mentor and Prinzess Louise within the years 1822–1842 . Verlag von Grass, Barth &. Comp., Breslau 1842
  • Lars U. Scholl : The Princes Louise of the Royal Prussian Sea Trading Society: two unpublished documents . In: Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 9, 1986, pp. 117–122
  • Heinz Burmester: circumnavigation under the Prussian flag. The Royal Prussian Sea Trade and its ships. Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 978-3-8225-0062-0
  • Peter-Michael Pawlik: From the Weser into the world . Writings of the German Shipping Museum, Volume 33, Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-8225-0256-1 , p. 122 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Lars U. Scholl : The Princes Louise of the royal Prussian sea trading society . In: Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 9, 1986, p. 117
  2. ^ Heinz Burmester: Circumnavigation under Prussian flag , Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1988, p. 38 f.
  3. ^ Heinz Burmester: Circumnavigation under Prussian flag , Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1988, p. 40 f.
  4. ↑ a b Heinz Burmester: Circumnavigation under the Prussian flag , Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1988, p. 25
  5. ^ Heide Gerstenberger: From country to country: From the history of Bremischer Seefahrt. Edition Temmen, ISBN 978-3-926958600 , p. 160
  6. ↑ Johann Friedrich Meuss: The undertakings of the Royal Sea Handling Institute to bring up the Prussian trade at sea. A contribution to the history of the maritime trade (Prussian State Bank) and the maritime affairs in Prussia in the first half of the nineteenth century . Publications of the Institute for Oceanography at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin, Verlag ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1913, p. 167
  7. ↑ Heinz Burmester: Circumnavigation under Prussia's flag , Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 978-3-8225-0062-0 , p. 26
  8. ↑ Peter-Michael Pawlik: From the Weser into the world . Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-8225-0256-1 , p. 123
  9. ↑ Web link to the document on the Princess Louise in the German Shipping Archives