From Somm (shipyard)
The Von Somm shipyard (also Somm'sche Werft or Von Somm'sche Werft ) was a shipyard in Hamburg . Jacob Michel von Somm founded a shipyard on the Großer Grasbrook in 1794 , which was taken over by his son Johann Heinrich von Somm in 1803.
Foundation (1794)
JM von Somm founded a shipyard on the Großer Grasbrook in 1794 and built mostly barges , galiots and schooners with 70 to 160 loads in the ten years in which he managed the shipyard .
Johann Heinrich von Somm (1803-1852)
In the following 50 years his son Johann Heinrich von Somm also mainly built sailing ships, but in 1836 one of the first Hamburg paddle steamers and several lightships was built with the Patriot . In 1858 the shipyard had to be abandoned to make room for the port expansion. Today, the Hafencity is an important and modern business and residential district.
Important ships
- Lightship Jacob-Hinrich (1826)
In 1826 the 27-meter-long wooden light ship Jacob-Hinrich was built at the Somm'schen Werft , and it owes its name to the well-deserved pilot, Jacob-Hinrich Benöhr. The Jacob-Hinrich was used with a crew of ten as the third lightship with the name Elbe 1 from 1826 to 1845. It was then used as Elbe 3 and was sold for scrapping in 1901. Lightships were called lightships at that time.
- Lightship Caspar (1845)
The lightship Caspar was built in 1845 and got its name from Caspar Hartung, a Hamburg senator. It replaced the lightship Jacob-Hinrich as the fourth Elbe 1 . It then served as Elbe 2 and Elbe 4 .
- Germany (1847)
On October 15, 1848, the Somm'sche Werft delivered the first HAPAG ship with Germany . The full ship , 40 meters long and 9.5 meters wide, had 239 loads and was measured at 538 GRT . In addition to the cargo hold, there was space for 20 cabin passengers and 200 emigrants in the intermediate deck . With Germany , HAPAG began liner service between Hamburg and New York in 1848. She sank in the Atlantic in 1857.
Rhine (1848, 1849)
The Rhein , HAPAG's third ship, was measured with 450 GRT and was also delivered by the Somm'sche Werft. The Rhine capsized when it was launched in mid-November 1848. Two people lost their lives in the process. It therefore did not begin its service until the spring of 1849. It was sold to Wencke in Hamburg in 1858.
See also
Literature and other sources
- Witthöft, HJ: Hamburg-America Line , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, 1997
- NN: 100 years of shipping , shipbuilding ports: 1964 Hamburg, shipping publisher "Hansa"
- Arnim Clasen: The ships of the Chile emigration via Hamburg 1850-75 and the von Somm shipbuilding family, magazine for Low German family studies, 38 year, Hamburg, January 1963, ( PDF )