ELBE II lightship
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:10 pm
The stamp issued by Paraguay in 1977 shows the German lightship ELBE II at station in the entrance of the River Elbe.
The stamp is designed after a painting made by the German painter Hans Bohrdt (1857-1945) and shows the lightship during bad weather, with in the foreground the pilot boat (rowed) with the pilot on board underway to the sailing ship in the background of the stamp. Normally at that time the ELBE I was used for the Elbe pilot service, but when the weather got too bad the pilot service shifted to Elbe II.
The depicted lightship is the CASPAR a three-mast wooden hulled schooner, built in 1845 by the shipyard of Johann Hinrich von Somm in Hamburg. Not a tonnage or dimension given.
She was named after the Hamburg senator Caspar Hartung.
In use as ELBE I from 28 September 1845, where after a new lightship the GUSTAV HEINRICH took over CASPAR shifted to the position of ELBE II where she replaced lightship NEPTUN. In service there till 1905, where after she shifted to the position of ELBE IV till March 1911.
March 1911 out of service.
She was sold to the merchant J.D. Schlichting in Hamburg, her fate is not known, but most probably she was scrapped after she was sold.
The painting is in the Hamburg Museum of Hamburgische Gesichten.
Paraguay 1977 15g sg?, scott1764g
http://www.feuerschiffseite.de/SEEKISTE ... lbe2gb.htm and various internet sites.
Navicula.
The stamp is designed after a painting made by the German painter Hans Bohrdt (1857-1945) and shows the lightship during bad weather, with in the foreground the pilot boat (rowed) with the pilot on board underway to the sailing ship in the background of the stamp. Normally at that time the ELBE I was used for the Elbe pilot service, but when the weather got too bad the pilot service shifted to Elbe II.
The depicted lightship is the CASPAR a three-mast wooden hulled schooner, built in 1845 by the shipyard of Johann Hinrich von Somm in Hamburg. Not a tonnage or dimension given.
She was named after the Hamburg senator Caspar Hartung.
In use as ELBE I from 28 September 1845, where after a new lightship the GUSTAV HEINRICH took over CASPAR shifted to the position of ELBE II where she replaced lightship NEPTUN. In service there till 1905, where after she shifted to the position of ELBE IV till March 1911.
March 1911 out of service.
She was sold to the merchant J.D. Schlichting in Hamburg, her fate is not known, but most probably she was scrapped after she was sold.
The painting is in the Hamburg Museum of Hamburgische Gesichten.
Paraguay 1977 15g sg?, scott1764g
http://www.feuerschiffseite.de/SEEKISTE ... lbe2gb.htm and various internet sites.
Navicula.