GUSTAV HOLM
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 8:20 pm
Built as a wooden Barquentine in 1893 by Forenede Oplags og Værfert at Copenhagen for Kryolith Mine og Handels Selsk., at Copenhagen.
Launched as the FOX II.
Tonnage 405 gross, 262 net, 440 dwt., dim. 144.7 x 28.0 x 15.1ft (draught).
One B&W compound steam engine 250 hp.
She was special built for the trade between Denmark and Greenland with a strong hull and rigging.
July 1924 sold to A/S Det Østasiatiske Kompagni, renamed in GRØNLAND.
1925 Sold to Styrelsen af Kolonierne I Grønland, Copenhagen (Greenland Government) renamed GUSTAV HOLM, named after a Danish Naval Officer.
When sailing in Arctic waters she carried a seaplane on the poop for reconnaissance flights over the ice.
1949 Out of service.
1951 Sold to Meltola Laiva O/Y (Hugo Helmer Metola) Abo, Finland renamed GRØNLAND.
Refitted in a herring fisher, used as a mothership for a fleet of herring cutters.
1953 Sold to Meltola-Keramia O/Y, Abo. Thereafter all usable parts removed and the empty hull filled with sand and stones was sunk for the use as a quay at Mjosund.
Greenland 1950 50ore/5kr sg33/36, scott32/35. 1958 30 o0re + 10 ore sg40, scott
Source: Navicula. Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1893.
Launched as the FOX II.
Tonnage 405 gross, 262 net, 440 dwt., dim. 144.7 x 28.0 x 15.1ft (draught).
One B&W compound steam engine 250 hp.
She was special built for the trade between Denmark and Greenland with a strong hull and rigging.
July 1924 sold to A/S Det Østasiatiske Kompagni, renamed in GRØNLAND.
1925 Sold to Styrelsen af Kolonierne I Grønland, Copenhagen (Greenland Government) renamed GUSTAV HOLM, named after a Danish Naval Officer.
When sailing in Arctic waters she carried a seaplane on the poop for reconnaissance flights over the ice.
1949 Out of service.
1951 Sold to Meltola Laiva O/Y (Hugo Helmer Metola) Abo, Finland renamed GRØNLAND.
Refitted in a herring fisher, used as a mothership for a fleet of herring cutters.
1953 Sold to Meltola-Keramia O/Y, Abo. Thereafter all usable parts removed and the empty hull filled with sand and stones was sunk for the use as a quay at Mjosund.
Greenland 1950 50ore/5kr sg33/36, scott32/35. 1958 30 o0re + 10 ore sg40, scott
Source: Navicula. Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1893.