Red Lion (ship, 1597)
Roter Löwe (also Güldener Löwe , Goldener Löwe , Der Rothe Leu , Rother Löwe , Roth-Löwe or Goldener Leu ) was the name of a galleon that was in Prussian military service from 1601 to 1608 . The final fate is unknown.
Technical specifications
- Galleon , two-decker
- Keel laying: Unknown, completed in 1597
- Builder: Unknown, Netherlands
- Size: approx. 120 salt loads , d. H. 240 to 250 tons
- Length: approx. 98 Amsterdam feet , d. H. approx. 28 m
- Width: approx. 28 Amsterdam feet, d. H. approx. 8 m
- Masts: 3
- Armament: 18 cannons , including 6 pieces of stone
- Crew: Unknown
history
The ship, built in the Netherlands in 1597 , was bought against the backdrop of the Swedish-Polish War in 1601 by the councilors of the city of Königsberg , at that time the capital of the Duchy of Prussia , for the Duke or administrator of the Duchy of Georg Friedrich I , to make Pillau the port of Königsberg to protect against Swedish warships. The purchase price was 5000 guilders . (Pesch, p. 4)
From 1601 and 1602 as well as 1605 and 1606 she served as a watch ship off Pillau, in 1601 under Captain Peter Hintze (also written as Hinzen). In winter the ship was dismantled and lay in Pillau. The rear flag was the black and white striped flag of the home port of Königsberg, and on the main top there was also a black and white striped flag, which, however, also had the red Brandenburg eagle. Apparently, in 1601, another ship, either called Admiral or Samson, was rented from unknown for 333 guilders. At this time the Roter Löwe was apparently serving as the flagship under Admiral Georg von Eppingen. (Pesch, p. 4)
In 1608 the galleon sailed under the skipper Johann Fett with a cargo of wood to Lisbon , where it was sold with the cargo. The final fate is unknown.
Reconstruction history
Apparently in the 1950s Rolf Hoeckel reconstructed the history of the galleon and made plans for the model building. These were with other plans in 1957/58 under the title “Ship cracks for shipbuilding history I u. II ”published in Burg (Robert Loef-Verlag). The Robert Loef Verlag was taken over by VEB Hinstorff Verlag, when it is unknown, and was thus able to expand its maritime program.
Apart from the size of around 120 salt loads, no further technical information is known about the ship. There is also no original graphic representation. All data were extrapolated or estimated around 1969 by Hoeckel, Robert Loef and Hans Szymanski on the basis of comparable Dutch ships.
Web links
literature
- Hans Szymanski: Brandenburg-Prussia at sea 1605 to 1815 , Leipzig 1939.
- Rolf Hoeckel / Robert Loef / Hans Szymanski: Frigate "Roter Löwe" 1597 , in: Lothar Eich (ed.): Cracks of ships of the 16th and 17th centuries , 5th edition Rostock (VEB Hinstorff Verlag) 1979.
- Christoph Links : The fate of the GDR publishers. Privatization and its consequences , Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-86153-595-9
- Kurt Petsch: Seafaring for Brandenburg-Prussia 1650-1815. History of naval battles, overseas branches and state trading companies , Osnabrück (Biblio-Verlag) 1986. ISBN 3-7648-1192-7