Schürbek (ship, 1902)

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The Joseph Dollar ex Schürbek , 1929

The Schürbek was a German four-masted steel barque . Confiscated as war compensation, it came into US possession after the First World War and when it was retired in 1929, it was the last still active four-masted steel barque flying the American flag.

Construction and technical data

The ship was launched in May 1902 with the hull number 324 at the shipyard of J. Reid & Co. in Whiteinch, Glasgow , from the stack . The client was the shipping company Knöhr & Burchard in Hamburg .

The Schürbek was 89.52 m long and 13.12 m wide, had a 7.51 m draft and was measured with 2405 GRT and 2266 NRT . The ship was rigged with a so-called anniversary rig , i.e. H. with five square sails on each of the three front masts , without royal sails over the top sails .

history

The freighter sailed mainly between Germany and ports on the west coast of the USA , Canada and Mexico . He got z. B. Wheat from North America, brought coke to Santa Rosalía for the local copper works of the French Compagnie du Boléo and brought copper ore back from there.

At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, which was Schürbeck in Mexico , and was, along with eleven other German tall ships , in Santa Rosalia in the Gulf of California interned . She stayed with the other ships until 1921 launched .

At the end of the war, the ships were in very poor condition due to years of neglected maintenance. Since the German Reich had to surrender most of its merchant fleet after the Versailles Treaty , they were finally confiscated as spoils of war, in 1921 for a total of only 350,000 US dollars to the US wood and paper company Robert Dollar & Co. from San Francisco or its subsidiary Dollar Steamship Co. sold. The Schürbek was first brought to Sausalito in the Bay of San Francisco , was named Joseph Dollar in 1922 , and was put back into service to transport wood from the northwest coast of the USA to East Asia.

However, the tall ship era was soon over and it also became too difficult to find experienced officers and crews for them. Dollar repelled his sailors, and most of them were only dismantled as barges or hulks afterwards . The Joseph Dollar was the last four-masted barque still in service under the flag of the USA. On 15 February 1929 already sold to Chinese owners, they ran from Tacoma and Port Angeles in the US state of Washington for the last time with a load of wood to Japan and China from. In Shanghai arrived, she was discharged and dismasted and a storage ship on the Yangtze anchored.

figurehead

The figurehead of Schürbek was taken before the last drive and in the MH de Young Memorial Museum located in San Francisco. It was there until it was badly damaged in the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, after which it was exhibited in the Oakland Museum of California . In 2012, she was at a auction for more than 150,000 $ sold. Erna Grohmann (1874–1963) is said to have served as a model for the 2.62 m high figure, the eldest daughter of Heinrich Grohmann, partner in the important sailmaker AK Schmidt & Co. in Altona .

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/John_Reid_and_Co
  2. ↑ Whiteinch is a borough of Glasgow, on the north bank of the Clyde .
  3. ↑ Walter Laas: The great sailing ships: their development and future (=  historical shipping . Volume 67 ). 1st edition. BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-86195-067-7 , pp. 105 (127 p., Limited preview in the Google book search - changed reprint of the original edition from 1908, Berlin, Verlag Springer).
  4. ↑ http://www.baja-web.com/sta-rosalia/st-rosal.htm
  5. ↑ Among them were, in addition to the Schürbek, the Adolf Vinnen, the Helwig Vinnen , the Walküre , the Egon , the Hans , the Orotava , the Reinbek , the Thielbek and the Wandsbek . ( history.navy.mil ( Memento from December 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
  6. ↑ Photo #: NH 50725 ( Memento from September 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) and Photo #: NH 50726 ( Memento from September 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) - Photos of the interned tall ships , taken from the gunboat USS Vicksburg .
  7. ↑ The Schürbeck was handed over to Italy . ( http://northeastauctions.com/search/detail.php?l=580&a=marine12 )
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 20, 2012 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.angelfire.com
  9. ↑ Sea breezes: the ship lovers' digest, Volume 12, p. 95
  10. ↑ The former Janet Dollar , ex Egon , had held the same position there since 1928.
  11. ^ Carved and Painted Figurehead of a Young Women from the Four-Masted Bark Joseph Dollar.

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