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Constance

Post by shipstamps » Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:04 am


The brig, CONSTANCE, 217Gt. was built by M 7. Nieisen in Flensburg, Germany in 1857 for the Royal Greenland Trade Department. During her 46 years in service for the department, CONSTANCE, managed 48 transatlantic voyages.
She was not a large ship, but many regarded this as an advantage in Greenland navigation because it is easier to maneuver small ships in ice-covered waters and narrow fiords. In 1903, the ship was laid up, and in 1908, she was sold.
Subsequently, CONSTANCE was for some years used by Dansk Dampskibsrederiforening (the Danish Steam Ship Owners Association) as a stationary training ship for ship's cooks, then laid up again. In
1937, the 80-year old ship was scrapped in Sweden.
Source: Greenland Post Collector No. 3-04, Jean-Louis Aroignon;

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