Salvator (ship)

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The ship The Salvator was a merchant from Wismar who was forcibly recruited into the Spanish Armada in 1588.

In the list of ships of the Spanish Armada , vehicles are mentioned several times with a geographical reference. Armada wrecks are explored on the Scottish and Irish coasts, but nothing is known about most of the Armada vehicles. Ship names such as Barca de Hamburgo , Barca de Ancique (Bark von Danzig) or Paloma Blanca (Polonia Blanca) refer to the different origins of the ships bought, rented or confiscated.

The ship sailed to Setúbal in 1587 under the skipper Otto Wilcken . At that time Setúbal and Lisbon were the ports of call for the so-called Baienfahrt , the trade in salt. There the ship was immediately conscripted. It took part in the Armada procession as a supply vehicle and had soldiers and monks on board. After the successful return to a Spanish port, it was equipped for a trip to Brazil under the Spanish flag. In the spring of 1590 the skipper managed to buy himself free from further obligations. The ship arrived in Wismar on November 8, 1590 with a load of Baiensalz.

According to Wismar sources, the ship is a 300-load-bearing kraweel . From the lists of the Spanish Armada published at the time, it is a 650-ton ship carrying 230 soldiers, 60 sailors and 30 cannons. In the fleet it represented the ship of a vice admiral of the squadron.

literature

  • Heinrich Stettner: The Armada procession from 1588 . In: German Shipping Archive . Volume 10, 1987, pp. 153-180
  • Rainer Däbritz: Wismar, light and shadow under sails. Rostock 2002