Rudolf Karlowa

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Captain TRF Karlowa about 1883
1st command, the Bark Miranda 1868–70

Theodor Rudolf Ferdinand Karlowa (born August 30, 1844 in Braunschweig , † June 14, 1913 in Vossloch , Pinneberg district , Schleswig-Holstein ) was a German seaman and colonial official.

biography

Rudolf Karlowa did a great job researching ocean waves. He was the first German sailor to systematically resume Benjamin Franklin's almost forgotten attempts to oil the breakwater and then, in his award-winning book The Use of Oil to Calm the Waves (Hamburg 1888), set up rules for calming waves with oil, which subsequently found great application.

Karlowa went to the navigation school in Hamburg in 1866 . During a trip to East India by Bark Miranda , who sailed for the Hamburg shipping company HA & CR Watty , he took over on August 24, 1868 as the first helmsman (at the age of 24) after the death of Captain Joh. Peter Chris. Carl Möller took over the ship's command as far as Shanghai after leaving Hong Kong . Here he officially received his first command as captain on September 14, 1868 and led the ship in Chinese and Japanese waters to Honolulu for the next two years before returning home to Hamburg via Baker Island and around Cape Horn . Returned July 1870.

In 1871 he joined the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft , for which he drove the rest of his life on the North Atlantic route. Initially apparently as a ship's officer , his first command is recorded for 1877 on the Vandalia . On May 1, 1889, he earned merit in rescuing 168 passengers, ship and crew when a cargo of cotton caught fire on his ship Rugia between New York and Plymouth and a disaster was prevented only by extremely determined action. For the shipping company he commanded a. a. the ships Teutonia (2), Thuringia , Allemannia , Bohemia , Rhaetia , Suevia , Wieland , Palatia , Pretoria and, as the last ship in 1902, the Blücher (for the ships see list of HAPAG seagoing ships 1848–1970 ). His brother F. Karlowa was also a ship officer at HAPAG. He lost his life as first officer in the Cimbria disaster in 1883 .

From 1906 to 1908 Karlowa was the district administrator for the Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen district of German New Guinea . Before that he had been on the Gazelle Peninsula on the island of New Pomerania for several years .

literature

  • SEE SHIP DIRECTORY OF THE HAMBURGER REEDEREIEN 1824–1888, Walter Kresse, 1969, part 1–3, edited by Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte
  • Sample roll of the Hamburg barque 'Miranda' 1867–1870, files of the Wasserschout Hamburg, Hamburg State Archives, Sign. 373-1
  • Genealogical data of the Karlowa family, Helmut Wohlfarter, South Africa

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.watty-genealogie.de
  2. ^ National Library of New Zealand: Papers Past - Fire on a Steamer. (Poverty Bay Herald, 1889-07-06) .
  3. ↑ http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00716F8395F15738DDDAB0A94D9405B8384F0D3
  4. ↑ Burkhard cattle track: Big Felolow Man - shell money and South spirits - Authentic reports from German New Guinea 1906-1909 , published by Josef Margraf, Weikersheim 1990, pages 41-43
personal data
SURNAME Karlova, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karlowa, Theodor Rudolf Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German seaman
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1913
Place of death Vossloch , Pinneberg district , Schleswig-Holstein