Vega (ship, 1873)
 The Vega in a painting by Jacob Hägg
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The Vega was an auxiliary sailor of the Swedish polar explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld . This ship was the first to sail the Northeast Passage .
The Vega
The later Vega was under the name of Jan Mayen than 355 tons of large Bark m with a length of 43 in the Wencke shipyard in Geestemünde built for CB Pedersen and ran in January in 1873 by the stack . In addition, she was with a 60 PS strong steam engine equipped. The Vega was designed for the Arctic Ocean voyage and initially served as a whaler .
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld and his captain Louis Palander chose it for the first time on the Northeast Passage from 1878 to 1880. After the end of this long voyage, which the ship survived without serious damage, the old shipping company used her again as a fishing vessel off Greenland . Your further fate is lost in the dark. On her last voyage, she was trapped in the ice in Melville Bay and sank on May 31, 1903.
The Vega also had a sister ship , the Groenland , built a year earlier by the German Polar Shipping Company , with which, under the command of the later polar explorer Eduard Dallmann, during a fishing trip in the South Pacific in 1874, among other things, the Bismarck Strait , the Neumayer Canal and the Kaiser Wilhelm Island were discovered. From 1893 it also served as a falcon for the polar explorer Robert Edwin Peary as an expedition ship.
Some geographical locations are named after the Vega , e.g. For example, the Vega Island in Antarctica , the Vegafonna Glacier on Northeast Land in the Svalbard Archipelago and the Vegasund, a strait between the islands of Traill and Geographical Society Ø in East Greenland. The Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography awards the Vega Medal in memory of the first trip on the Northeast Passage , which Nordenskiöld himself was the first to wear.
The Vega Monument
The Vega Monument was erected in front of the Naturhistoriska riksmuseet in Stockholm , Frescativägen 40, Frescati on April 24, 1930 (fifty years after the Vega returned from the Northeast Passage ) . It is the work of Ivar Johnsson (1885–1970) and shows a black granite block with the copper vega .
Quote
At the age of 15, Sven Hedin experienced the triumphant return of the Swedish polar explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld with the Vega after sailing the Northeast Passage for the first time . He describes it as follows in his book My Life as an Explorer :
On April 24, 1880, the Vega entered Stockholm's Ström. The whole city was illuminated. The houses around the harbor were blazing in the glow of innumerable lamps and torches. The constellation of Vega glowed in gas flames on the castle . In the middle of this sea of lights the famous ship glided into the harbor. I stood with my parents and siblings on the mountains of Södermalm , from where we had a commanding view. I was gripped by the greatest tension. I will think back to this day all my life, it became decisive for my future path. Thunderous cheers boomed from the quays, streets, windows and roofs. "That's how I want to come home one day," I thought.
literature
- Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik: The circumnavigation of Asia and Europe on the Vega. With a historical look back at previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World. Authorized German edition. 2 volumes. With a preface to the German and Swedish editions. Leipzig, FA Brockhaus 1882.
- Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik (ed.): The scientific results of the Vega expedition. Edited by members of the expedition and other researchers. Leipzig, Brockhaus, (1883).
- Friedrich von Hellwald: A world-historical problem . In: Vom Fels zum Meer: Spemanns Illustrierte Zeitschrift für das Deutschen Haus Vol. 2 (April – September 1886), pp. 970–986, with 22 illustrations, 3 of them on Vega.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard A. Krause, Ursula Rack (ed.): Journal, kept on board the steamship GROENLAND, Captain Ed. Dallmann, on the journey from Hamburg to d. Whale and Seal fishing on the coasts of South Shetland Islds. Coronation Isld. Trinity Land & Palmerland, run by Rud. Küper, Hamburg (PDF; 5.1 MB), Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven 2006, accessed on July 13, 2013
- ↑ a b The Vega in the Miramar Ship Index. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 3, 2009 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ William James Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers - A Historical Encyclopedia . tape 2 . ABC-CLIO, 2003, ISBN 1-57607-422-6 , pp. 673 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Vegafonna . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
- ↑ Vega Sound . In: Anthony K. Higgins: Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland. (= Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21, 2010). Copenhagen 2010, ISBN 978-87-7871-292-9 (English), accessed January 31, 2015
- ^ Staffan Helmfrid: Geography in Sweden . In: Belgeo . tape 1 , no. 1 , 2004, p. 163-74 ( online [accessed August 11, 2014]).
Web links
- The Vega on Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved on October 23, 2009 (English, currently paid access).
- Search for Vega (Schiff, 1873) in the German Digital Library
- Search for Vega Nordenskiöld in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
