HERZOGIN CECILIE
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:24 pm
Built as a four-masted steel barque under yard No. 122 by Rickmers AG, Bremerhaven for the Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen.
22 April 1902 launched under the name HERZOGIN CECILIE.
Tonnage 3.242 grt, 2.786 nrt., dim. 103.17 x 14.02 x 7.21m.
Call sign QHLK.
Built as a sail-training cargo ship, her crew of 80 men included 60 cadets, 4 deck officers, 2 teachers, doctor and housekeeping personnel.
25 June 1902 her maiden voyage under command of Captain Max Dietrich from Bremerhaven to Astoria, Oregon
During this maiden voyage around Cape Horn she made a call at Monte Video with severe rig damage, after repair she continued her voyage to Astoria, which she reached after a passage of 111 days.
17 August 1904 HERZOGIN CECILIE left Gravesend under tow of the RETTER for the Weser.
1905 Made for days a speed of 16 knots on a voyage to Australia.
1908 Command was taken over by Captain Otto Walther, and Captain Dietrich Ballehr took over command in 1913.
14 May 1914 sailed from Bremerhaven and arrived on 25 July at Guyacan, Chile, after a passage of 81 days. After discharging her cargo of coal, she was interned in this port.
04 November 1918 taken over by the Chilean Navy and towed to Coquimbo on 18 November.
December 1919 the German Sailship Agency was formed to supply and return the German sailing vessels still in Chilean waters back to Europe.
12 August 1920 she sailed from Coquimbo 360 miles north to Caleta Colosa, Antofagasta to load 3.900 tons nitrates.
30 September 1920 sailed for “Orders” to Falmouth.
23 December 1920 arrived off Falmouth and got orders to proceed to Oostende (Ostend), Belgium where she arrived on the 26 December.
From there the crew was sent to Germany, and the HERZOGIN CECILIE as part of the war indemnity was on 05 June 1921 assigned to France, and handed over on 20 June.
When end 1921 Ruben de Cloux a very trusted captain of Gustaf Erikson traveled to Marseille to inspect a other German vessel, he passed through Oostende and after inspection of the HERZOGIN CECILIE he travel not farther, but bought for Erikson the HERZOGIN CECILIE.
21 November 1921 sold to Gustaf Erikson for £4250, after Cloux bought the vessel he took command of her.
Registered under No. 703, tonnage then given as 3.111 grt, 2.584nrt. Call sign TPMK. Homeport Mariahamn, Åland Islands, Finland.
18 June 1927, during thick fog stranded off Vorupor, Hanstholm, Denmark. Refloated the next morning after pumping out the water ballast.
During the ten years owned by Erikson she was mostly used in the grain trade from Australia to Europe, her return voyage around Cape Horn, her averaged passage was about 90 days.
01 January 1934 got the new call sign OHAU.
She was winning the annual grain race from Australia to Europe eight times in succession.
27 January 1936 sailed from Port Lincoln, South Australia with on board 4.295 tons of wheat for “Orders” to Falmouth, arrived after a passage of 86 days on 22 April.
23 April 1936 at Falmouth was arrested because of a collision with the German trawler RASTEDE, against a bail of £2.500 she was released, and received orders to proceed to Ipswich on the East coast of the U.K. for discharging. Sailed on Friday 24 April.
During foggy weather and a high sea running she got off course and stranded early the next morning while under all plain sail, she ran hard aground under the cliffs of Sewer Mil Cove near Salcombe, Devon. The Salcombe lifeboat that was called by the coast guard after observing flares and distress rockets at around 03.00 Saturday morning sailed out. The lifeboat due to a high sea running in the cove had considerable problems to bring her alongside the stranded vessel.
One woman and 23 crew were taken off, but Captain Leiv Erikson and his wife and 6 crew remained on board, after the survivors were landed in Salcombe the lifeboat returned to the HERZOGIN CECILIE but due to the weather and seas she could not come alongside and was stand-by near the vessel. After the lifesaving crew on the cliff, fired a line over the ship and rigged the breeches-buoy, the lifeboat returned to Salcombe.
Two French tugs the ABEILLE No 24 and ABEILLE No 16 with salvage gear and pumps arrived the same day but due to the weather it was the 28th before one of the tugs could come alongside, but after inspection of the vessel she returned to bases, and reported the situation hopeless, and the ship total loss.
10 May, Captain Erikson and the rest of the crew left the vessel and she was official abandoned, the captain left as last the vessel, taken with him the shipsdog.
After Captain Erikson made an appeal to the British public for money to save the vessel, the response was good, pumps were hired and on 19 June after a large part of her rotten wheat was discharged she was towed free, thereafter towed around to Storehole Bay where she was beached. During a storm in July her bow and stern were sinking in the sand, but the midsection most probably had settled down on a rock. She started hogging and in the end she broke her back on 17 July 1936.
She was sold for breaking up for £200 where she lay, breaking her up was a very slow job, and during a gale on 18 January 1939 she capsized and disappeared under the waves in a few minutes.
Her cabin and figurehead are preserved at the Ålands Sjöfartsmuseum.
Aland Islands 1992 2m10 sg55, scott 63.
http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships ... 1902).html
Sail Training and cadets Ships by Harold A. Underhill. The Australian Run by Jack Loney & Peter Stone.
Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen 1857-1970 by Edwin Drechsel.
22 April 1902 launched under the name HERZOGIN CECILIE.
Tonnage 3.242 grt, 2.786 nrt., dim. 103.17 x 14.02 x 7.21m.
Call sign QHLK.
Built as a sail-training cargo ship, her crew of 80 men included 60 cadets, 4 deck officers, 2 teachers, doctor and housekeeping personnel.
25 June 1902 her maiden voyage under command of Captain Max Dietrich from Bremerhaven to Astoria, Oregon
During this maiden voyage around Cape Horn she made a call at Monte Video with severe rig damage, after repair she continued her voyage to Astoria, which she reached after a passage of 111 days.
17 August 1904 HERZOGIN CECILIE left Gravesend under tow of the RETTER for the Weser.
1905 Made for days a speed of 16 knots on a voyage to Australia.
1908 Command was taken over by Captain Otto Walther, and Captain Dietrich Ballehr took over command in 1913.
14 May 1914 sailed from Bremerhaven and arrived on 25 July at Guyacan, Chile, after a passage of 81 days. After discharging her cargo of coal, she was interned in this port.
04 November 1918 taken over by the Chilean Navy and towed to Coquimbo on 18 November.
December 1919 the German Sailship Agency was formed to supply and return the German sailing vessels still in Chilean waters back to Europe.
12 August 1920 she sailed from Coquimbo 360 miles north to Caleta Colosa, Antofagasta to load 3.900 tons nitrates.
30 September 1920 sailed for “Orders” to Falmouth.
23 December 1920 arrived off Falmouth and got orders to proceed to Oostende (Ostend), Belgium where she arrived on the 26 December.
From there the crew was sent to Germany, and the HERZOGIN CECILIE as part of the war indemnity was on 05 June 1921 assigned to France, and handed over on 20 June.
When end 1921 Ruben de Cloux a very trusted captain of Gustaf Erikson traveled to Marseille to inspect a other German vessel, he passed through Oostende and after inspection of the HERZOGIN CECILIE he travel not farther, but bought for Erikson the HERZOGIN CECILIE.
21 November 1921 sold to Gustaf Erikson for £4250, after Cloux bought the vessel he took command of her.
Registered under No. 703, tonnage then given as 3.111 grt, 2.584nrt. Call sign TPMK. Homeport Mariahamn, Åland Islands, Finland.
18 June 1927, during thick fog stranded off Vorupor, Hanstholm, Denmark. Refloated the next morning after pumping out the water ballast.
During the ten years owned by Erikson she was mostly used in the grain trade from Australia to Europe, her return voyage around Cape Horn, her averaged passage was about 90 days.
01 January 1934 got the new call sign OHAU.
She was winning the annual grain race from Australia to Europe eight times in succession.
27 January 1936 sailed from Port Lincoln, South Australia with on board 4.295 tons of wheat for “Orders” to Falmouth, arrived after a passage of 86 days on 22 April.
23 April 1936 at Falmouth was arrested because of a collision with the German trawler RASTEDE, against a bail of £2.500 she was released, and received orders to proceed to Ipswich on the East coast of the U.K. for discharging. Sailed on Friday 24 April.
During foggy weather and a high sea running she got off course and stranded early the next morning while under all plain sail, she ran hard aground under the cliffs of Sewer Mil Cove near Salcombe, Devon. The Salcombe lifeboat that was called by the coast guard after observing flares and distress rockets at around 03.00 Saturday morning sailed out. The lifeboat due to a high sea running in the cove had considerable problems to bring her alongside the stranded vessel.
One woman and 23 crew were taken off, but Captain Leiv Erikson and his wife and 6 crew remained on board, after the survivors were landed in Salcombe the lifeboat returned to the HERZOGIN CECILIE but due to the weather and seas she could not come alongside and was stand-by near the vessel. After the lifesaving crew on the cliff, fired a line over the ship and rigged the breeches-buoy, the lifeboat returned to Salcombe.
Two French tugs the ABEILLE No 24 and ABEILLE No 16 with salvage gear and pumps arrived the same day but due to the weather it was the 28th before one of the tugs could come alongside, but after inspection of the vessel she returned to bases, and reported the situation hopeless, and the ship total loss.
10 May, Captain Erikson and the rest of the crew left the vessel and she was official abandoned, the captain left as last the vessel, taken with him the shipsdog.
After Captain Erikson made an appeal to the British public for money to save the vessel, the response was good, pumps were hired and on 19 June after a large part of her rotten wheat was discharged she was towed free, thereafter towed around to Storehole Bay where she was beached. During a storm in July her bow and stern were sinking in the sand, but the midsection most probably had settled down on a rock. She started hogging and in the end she broke her back on 17 July 1936.
She was sold for breaking up for £200 where she lay, breaking her up was a very slow job, and during a gale on 18 January 1939 she capsized and disappeared under the waves in a few minutes.
Her cabin and figurehead are preserved at the Ålands Sjöfartsmuseum.
Aland Islands 1992 2m10 sg55, scott 63.
http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships ... 1902).html
Sail Training and cadets Ships by Harold A. Underhill. The Australian Run by Jack Loney & Peter Stone.
Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen 1857-1970 by Edwin Drechsel.