Wandsbek (ship, 1892)

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The Wandsbek shortly after 1900 (painting by TG Purvis)

The Wandsbek was a steel four-masted barque that initially sailed under the British, from 1900 under the German flag and was destroyed in a severe storm in the Gulf of California in 1923 .

Construction and technical data

The ship was launched in July 1892 with the hull number 303 and the name Ancyra on the yard of Russell & Co. in Greenock ( Scotland ) for the shipping company GT Soley & Co. in Liverpool from the stack . It was 85.07 m long and 12.74 m wide, had a 7.38 m draft and was measured at 2333 GRT and 2198 NRT .

fate

The Wandsbek (1885) aground at Lizard Point, May 1900

The Ancyra drove on the India route.

On September 22, 1900, it was bought by the Hamburg shipping company Knöhr & Burchard and renamed Wandsbek . It replaced the three-masted full ship Wandsbek , which was driven onto the rocky coast not far from Lizard Point on May 26, 1900 and had to be abandoned.

For her new owners, the Wandsbek sailed as a bulk carrier under the captains JB Tadsen, H. Koenke and W. Burmeister and others to Philadelphia , Kobe ( Japan ), Santa Rosalía ( Mexico ), Portland and the Chilean saltpeter ports of Pisagua and Mejillones .

When the First World War broke out in August 1914, the Schürbeck was in Santa Rosalía, Mexico, in the Gulf of California , where it had delivered coke for the local copper smelter of the French Compagnie du Boléo and was supposed to load copper ore. The ship was, along with eleven other German tall ships , by the Mexican government in Santa Rosalia interned and remained there with the other ships until 1921 launched .

Since the German Empire after the Treaty of Versailles had to give up most of its merchant fleet, the ships were due to years of neglected maintenance in very poor condition, eventually confiscated as spoils of war, in 1921 for a total of only 350,000 US dollars to the US -American wood and paper company Robert Dollar & Co. from San Francisco and its subsidiary Dollar Steamship Co. sold. However, since it was difficult to find experienced officers and crews, the Wandsbek initially remained at anchor in Santa Rosalía. There (at position 27 ° 19 ′ 58.8 ″  N , 112 ° 15 ′ 36 ″  W ) it was destroyed by a severe storm on October 15, 1923.

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  1. ↑ http://www.baja-web.com/sta-rosalia/st-rosal.htm
  2. ↑ Among them were the Wandsbek, the Adolf Vinnen , the Helwig Vinnen, the Walküre, the Egon, the Hans, the Orotava, the Reinbek, the Schürbek and the Thielbek . ( history.navy.mil ( Memento from December 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
  3. ↑ 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 .
  4. ↑ 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
  5. ↑ http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Fourmast_ships/Ancyra(1892).html