ship Atalanta- Bremen>NY 1864
Michael Palmer
> Would anyone have information on the ship, Atalanta, that arrived in New
> York from Bremen on January 2, 1864? Also, would anyone know if there is
> a picture of this ship in any books?
The vessel in question is the Bremen bark ATALANTA, [Johann] von Harten,
master, which according to the New York _Herald_ arrived at New York on
31 December 1863, 50 days from Bremen, with merchandise and 282
passengers, to Garrels & Meyer.
The bark (a 3-masted sailing vessel, the 2 forward masts square-rigged,
the mizzenmast rigged fore-and-aft) ATALANTA was built by the the
shipbuilding firm of Hermann Friedrich Ulrichs, in Vegesack/F"ahr (on the
eastern bank of the Weser River, northwest of Bremen), and launched on 26
February 1857. 247 Commerzlasten/565 tons; 40,5 x 9,3 x 5,1 meters/ 143
x 30 x 17.5 feet (length x beam x depth of hold); International Signal
Code QBHD. Principal owners of the ATALANTA were the Bremen firm of
Konitzky & Thiermann, and her masters were, in turn, August Horstmann,
Hinrich Gerhard Bulling, Johann von Harten, and L"uder H"ogemann.
In 1880, the ATALANTA was purchased by C. Hartlaub, of Bremen. In July
1882, in the face of Hartlaub's mounting debts, the ATALANTA was forcibly
auctioned by order of the Amtsgericht Geestem"unde, and was purchased by
the Schiffahrtsgesellschaft "Astra", of Riga. The ATALANTA thus passed
into Russian hands, her new master being Capt. Lindemann. In 1883, she
made a passage from Swansea to Vera Cruz, returning to Europe by way of
Pensacola.
On 8 November 1887, the ATALANTA, Capt. Heimann, collided with the Danish
bark EMIL (ex Bremen bark NORMA, built in Vegesack/F"ahr by Ulrichs in
1859) off Helsing"or, but sustained no major damage.
On 21 November 1888, during a storm, the ATALANTA, bound from Riga to
Antwerp with a cargo of wood, was stranded on the beach at Goeree, in the
Netherlands; 6 members of the crew lost their lives, and the vessel was a
total loss [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), p. 280, no. 43].
No picture of the ATALANTA is known to survive. However, I am sending
you, by separate e-mail, a scan, in .JPG format, of an undated painting,
attributed to Oltmann Jaburg, of the Bremen bark EDUARD, slightly larger
than the ATALANTA (250 Commerzlasten/ 602 tons; 40,5 x 9,3 x 5,2 meters).
Michael Palmer
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Michael Palmer
Claremont, California
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