Shipping company Barthold Richters
The shipping company Barthold Richters was a Hamburg shipping company that was founded by the shipowner and captain Barthold Richters in 1919 and managed until it went bankrupt in 1979.
history
The shipping company operated 50 ships during its existence. The four-masted schooner Flottbek , built in 1927 by the Neustädter Slip-Werft and bought by Richters in 1933, became famous . The ship was lost with Barthold Richters as captain on September 5, 1935 on a voyage from Danzig to Riga about 10 nautical miles northeast of Hela . Nine crew members and one passenger died, only three crew members survived, including the master.
Barthold judge was the first West German shipping company that ships from the GDR - shipyard Neptune was built and decreased total of 40 ships, especially the ships of the ILRI -series. However, many of the ships were only owned by the shipping company for a very short time before they were resold. The orders for the last six ships were no longer called and went to the shipping company F. Laeisz .
Individual evidence
- ^ Wreck Site: Flottbek
- ↑ Ulrich Schaefer: Gaffelschoner in North and Baltic Sea , Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-8225-0124-7 , pp. 82–86
- ^ Deutsche Reederei , Volume 10, Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen, 1999, ISBN 978-3-928473-52-1 , pp. 6-53
literature
- German shipping companies , Volume 10, Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen, 1999, ISBN 978-3-928473-52-1
- Ulrich Schaefer: Gaff schooner in the North and Baltic Seas , Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-8225-0124-7