Ships info and pictures
Michael Palmer
> Seeking source of a picture of these ships:
>
> Ship Ocean, Ship's Master J. H. Gätzen
> Bremen to New Orleans
> Arr. 25 May 1857
According to the New Orleans _Daily Picayune_, the Bremen ship OCEAN,
[Johann Hinrich] G"atjen, master, arrived at New Orleans on Sunday, 24 May
1857, from Bremen 19 March, in ballast, with 317 passengers in steerage.
The OCEAN was a 3-masted, square-rigged ship, built by Johann Lange,
Vegesack/Grohn, and launched on 23 April 1850, for the Bremen firm of J.
D. K"oncke Hermanns Sohn. 293 Commerzlasten/697 tons; 37,9 x 9,6 x 5,9
meters (length x breadth x depth of hold). In 1867, the OCEAN was
registered in the name of J.D. K"oncke, Bremerhaven; from 1879, she was
owned by the Bremen shipping firm of D. Cordes & Co. Captains of the
OCEAN under the Bremen flag were, in turn, Johann Elias Janssen, Simon
August Kl"opper, Johann Hinrich G"atjen, Berend G"ardes, H. Riefe, A.
Sch"utte, and H. D. Vagt. 1885, sold to Westergaard & Hannevig,
Christiania, Norway; Captain Andersen. 1888, registered to C. Hannevig,
Christiania; Captain A. Moe. 1891, registered to C. M"oller,
Christiania; Captain A. Moe. In the mid 1890's, sold to A/S Ocean (A.
L. Wetlesen) in Fredrikstad; Captain P. J. Andersen. 1897, wrecked
[Peter-Michael Pawlik, _Von der Weser in die Welt; Die Geschichte der
Segelschiffe von Weser und Lesum und ihrer Bauwerften 1770 bis 1893_,
Schriften des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums, Bd. 33 (Hamburg: Kabel,
c1993), pp. 217-218, no. 207}. Pawlik's work contains a reproduction of
an oil painting of the OCEAN, dated 1863, by Oltmann Jaburg. I am sending
you a scan of this picture, in .JPG format, by separate e-mail.
> Ship St. Nicolas, Ship's Master John Bragdon (need history and
> description of this ship, too)
> Havre to New York
> Arr 2 Jan 1854
According to the _New York Times_, the packet ship St. Nicholas, Bragdon,
master, from Le Havre 20 November 1853, with merchandise and 292
passengers to Boyd & Hincken, entered New York's Lower Bay on Sunday, 1
January 1854, but did not reach the Upper Bay until Tuesday, 3 January
1854. "Dec 23, in a gale ... from W.N.W., lost foretopmast staysail and
foretopsail yard. Dec 27, in a gale from N.N.W., lost foretopsail, mizzen
topsail, foresail, and jib. The St N has been blown off the coast three
times, and the crew badly frostbitten. Took a pilot on the 29th, the
Highlands bearing W.W.N. 60 miles. Has had 4 deaths and 1 birth on board
during the passage."
The ST NICHOLAS was built in 1841 in New York by Westervelt & Mackey. 797
tons; 148 ft x 34 ft 6 in x 21 ft 5 in (length x beam x depth of hold).
She sailed in John J. Boyd and Edward Hincken's Second Line of packets
between New York and Le Havre from 1841 to 1859, during which time her
westward passages averaged 38 days, her shortest being 23 days, her
longest 63. She is said to have burned at New York in 1859, following an
explosion, but this is a mistake for the Mississippi steamship of the
same name, which exploded and sank at New Orleans in June of that year:
the packet ship ST NICHOLAS continued to sail between New York and Havre
until at least the outbreak of the Civil War [Robert Greenhalgh Albion,
_Square-riggers on Schedule; The New York Sailing Packets to England,
France, and the Cotton Ports_ (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1938), pp. 226, 286-287]. I have no reference to a picture of the ST
NICHOLAS. For information on possible surviving pictorial
representations of her, contact, in order, the following institutions:
South Street Seaport Museum
207 Front St.
New York, NY 10038
http://www.southstseaport.org/index.htm
The Mariners' Museum
100 Museum Drive
Newport News, VA 23606-3798
http://www.mariner.org/mariner
Peabody Essex Museum
East India House
Salem, MA 01970
http://www.pem.org
> Ship: S. S. Hansa, Captain G. Brickenstein
> Bremen to New York
> Arr. 24 May 1869
According to the New York _Herald_, the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship
HANSA, Capt. Brickenstein, arrived at New York on 23 May 1869, from Bremen
8 May, and Southampton 11 May, with merchandise and 971 passengers, to
Oelrichs & Co. "Experienced heavy W.S.W. gales and high seas almost all
the passage."
The steamship HANSA (I)--the first of three of this name built for
Norddeutscher Lloyd--was built by Caird & Co, Greenock (ship #92,
contract price 65,000 pounds sterling), and launched on 23 August 1861.
2,992 tons; 96,92 x 12,19 meters (length x breadth); clipper bow, 1
funnel, 3 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion (low-pressure
tandem engine with surface condensers; 750-1500 hp), service speed 11.5
knots; accommodation for 76 passengers in 1st class, 107 in 2nd class,
and 480 in steerage; crew of 102.
24 November 1861, maiden voyage, Bremen-Southampton-New York. 1864, given
Krupp steel shaft and air preheating. 13 June 1868, boarded 630 Mormons
in Copenhagen for Hull (and New York). 28 November 1871, sailed
Southampton for New York; engine failure; arrived St. John 18 December
under sail; after minimal repairs continued 23 December for New York. 12
November 1878, last voyage, Bremen-New York. Fall 1879, sold to Oswald,
Mordaunt & Co, Southampton, in partial payment for the HANSA (II); resold
to shipbroker E. Bates, Liverpool. 1880, registered to T. R. Oswald & R.
Gebbs, Liverpool. 1881, registered to T. R. Gebbs, Liverpool. 1881,
compound engines by J. Howden & Co, Glasgow. May 1881-March 1882, 6
roundtrip voyages, London-Boston, chartered to Adamson & Ronaldson. 1883,
purchased by the White Cross Line, Antwerp, and renamed LUDWIG; 3,087
tons. 2 July 1883, sailed from Antwerp for Montreal with 27 passengers,
43 crew, and 433 head of cattle; went missing after making contact on 3
July with Prawle Point, 20 miles southeast of Plymouth [Edwin Drechsel,
_Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, 1857-1970; History, Fleet, Ship Mails_, vol.
1 (Vancouver: Cordillera Pub. Co., c1994), pp. 16-17 (picture); Noel
Reginald Pixell Bonsor, _North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of
the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New_ (2nd ed.;
Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 2 (1978), pp. 512
(photograph), 544-545, and 825]. I am sending you a scan of this
photograph, in .JPG format, by separate e-mail. You can obtain a high-
quality reproduction of this photograph from the Peabody Essex Museum,
East India Square, Salem, MA 01970, http://www.pem.org.
> Ship S.S. Plantyn, Ship's Master Robert Scott
> Antwerp to New York
> Arr. 4 Aug 1882
According to the _New York Times_, the Belgian steamship PLANTYN, Capt.
Scott, arrived at New York on 3 August 1882, from Antwerp 20 July 1882,
with merchandise and passengers, to Funch, Edye & Co.
The steamship PLANTYN was built by A. Stephen & Sons, Glasgow, for the
Engels Line, of Belgium, and was launched on 17 September 1879. 2,328
tons; 97,62 x 10,97 meters/320.3 x 36 feet (length x breadth); straight
bow, 1 funnel, 3 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, service
speed 10 knots.
17 September 1879, maiden voyage, Glasgow-New York-Antwerp. 27 November
1879, first voyage, Antwerp-New York, in Engels Line-White Cross Line
joint service. 19 October 1883, last voyage, Antwerp-New York. 6
December 1883, bound from New York for Antwerp, abandoned at sea with the
loss of approximately 10 lives; sank the same day [Noel Reginald Pixell
Bonsor, _North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger
Services Linking the Old World with the New_ (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel
Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 2 (1978), pp. 821, 823, and 825;
vol. 3 (1979), pp. 995 and 996-997; vol. 5 (1980), p. 1891].
I have no reference to a picture of the PLANTYN. For information on
pictorial representations of her, contact the
Steamship Historical Society of America
Langsdale Library
University of Baltimore
1420 Maryland Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21201
http://sshsa.org/index.html
Michael Palmer
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Michael Palmer
Claremont, California
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