FRANKFURT (1869)
The steamship FRANKFURT, the first of three steamships of this name owned by Norddeutscher Lloyd, was built by Caird & Co, Greenock (yard #151), and was launched on 18 June 1869. 2,582 tons; 94,76 x 11,90 meters (length x breadth); clipper stem, 1 funnel, 2 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, low-pressure, single-expansion, inverted engine, service speed 10 knots; accommodation for 60 passengers in 1st class and 600 passengers in steerage; crew of 61 to 79.
The FRANKFURT was built for Norddeutscher Lloyd's new New Orleans service. 15 September 1869, maiden voyage (and first voyage of service), Bremen - Havana - New Orleans. 30 June 1870, first voyage, Bremen - Havre - New York. Laid up at New York during the Franco-Prussian war. 1871-1874, primarily New Orleans service, but 6 roundtrip voyages to New York. 1880, engines compounded by builders. 10 August 1881, first voyage, Bremen-South America. 8 March 1882, last voyage, Bremen-Baltimore; subsequently to South America. 30 September 1893, last voyage, Bremen-South America; laid up. 1894, with OHIO, traded to Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co in part payment for the PFALZ and MARK; both resold to H. F. Swan, Newcastle. 1895, sold to La Spezia as a coal carrier. March 1896, scrapped by Conti, La Spezia.
Sources: Arnold Kludas, Die Seeschiffe des Norddeutschen Lloyd, Bd. 1: 1857 bis 1919 (Herford: Koehler, c1991), p. 20; Edwin Drechsel, Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, 1857-1970; History, Fleet, Ship Mails, vol. 1 (Vancouver: Cordillera Pub. Co., c1994), p. 50, no. 25; Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 2 (1978), p. 547.
Voyages:
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FRANZISKA (1845) Oil painting (detail), by C. J. Fedeler, dated 1848, depicting the fleet of Friedrich Leo Quentell off Bremerhaven. 101 x 143,5 cm. Focke-Museum, Bremen, Inv.-Nr. B.508. Source: Johannes Lachs, Schiffe aus Bremen; Bilder und Modelle im Focke-Museum (Bremen: H. M. Hauschild, [1994]), p. 94, no. 68. To request a copy of the entire picture, contact the Focke-Museum. |
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The Bremen bark FRANZISKA was built at Vegesack/Fähr by H[ermann] F[riedrich] Ulrichs, and was launched on 23 October 1845. 147 Commerzlasten / 349 tons; 32,4 x 8,5 x 4,2 meters / 106.3 x 28.5 x 13.8 feet (length x beam x depth of hold).
The FRANZISKA was built for the Bremen firm of Friedrich Leo Quentell (succeeded in 1857 by Wm. Eduard Quentell) and Friedrich Wm. Stallforth Wwe, each of whom held a 1/2 share, for the freight and passenger service to the United States. Maiden voyage to Galveston, under the command of A. Hagedorn. Hagedorn was succeeded, in turn, Tönjes Stürje (who in 1849 became harbormaster at Harburg, and founded there the "Erste Rhederei Gesellschaft zu Harburg"), and Mathias Raake. On 23 October 1861, the FRANZISKA was sold to Block, Löwe & Cons., Hamburg, who sold her in 1862 to Captain Dillwitz, of Rostock. On 23 October 1870, it was reported from Dunkirk that the North German bark FRANZISKA, Capt. Dillwitz, bound from Newcastle with a cargo of coal, had been seized a few days earlier by the French naval steamer DESAIX and brought into Dunkirk as a prize of war. Her later history and ultimate fate are not known,
Sources: 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), pp. 270-271, no. 15; Walter Kresse, ed., Seeschiffs-Verzeichnis der Hamburger Reedereien, 1824-1888, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, N. F., Bd. 5 (Hamburg: Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, 1969), vol. 1, p. 58
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Italian 4-masted bark FREDERICO [1894] - See: CHARITY (1853)
FRIEDEBURG (1869)
The Hamburg ship FRIEDEBURG was built at Glasgow by Alexander
Stephen & Sons (yard #130) in 1869 (cerficiate 7 May), for the Hamburg
shipper Robert Miles Sloman. 324 Commerzlasten / 769 net register tons; 185
feet 6 inches x 30 feet 6 inches x 19 feet 9 inches / 55,64 x 9,16 x 5,69
meters (length x beam x depth of hold).
Masters:
1869 - P A. Petersen
1869-1871 - H. D. Boysen
1871-1873 - E. C. R. Kopper
1876-1878 - H. D. A. Höpfner
1879 - O. Kühlbrunn
Voyages:
1869 - Glasgow
1869/1870 - New York
1870/1871 - New York
1871/1872 - Brisbane (arrived 21 August, from Hamburg 20 March)/intermediate ports/Nieuwediep
1872/1873 - Lyttelton (New Zealand)/intermediate ports/Nieuwediep
1873/1874 - Brisbane (departed Hamburg 4 May; report on sickness among the passengers during
the passage in Queensland State Archives, COL 76/1201)/intermediate ports/Rotterdam
1874/1875 - Dona Franzisca/intermediate ports/Greenock
1875/1878 - New Zealand/Glasgow/intermediate ports/Amsterdam
1878/1881 - Brisbane (arrived 19 January 1879, from Hamburg 22 June 1878)/Glasgow/intermediate
ports ...
In 1881, the FRIEDEBURG was sold to Hamilton, of Liverpool. I have no information on her later history or ultimate fate.
There is a picture of the FRIEDEBURG (mistakenly identified as the "Friedenburg") in the Australian National Maritime Museum, Vaughan Evans Research Library, Pamphlet File.
Sources: Walter Kresse, ed., Seeschiffs-Verzeichnis der Hamburger Reedereien, 1824-1888, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, N. F., Bd. 5. (Hamburg: Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, 1969), vol. 2, pp. 215-216; Ernst Hieke, Rob. M. Sloman Jr., errichtet 1793, Veröffentlichungen der Wirtschaftsgeschichtlichen Forschungsstelle e.V., Hamburg, 30 (Hamburg: Verlag Hanseatischer Merkur, 1968), pp. 378, no. 73, and 381, no. 8. There may be additional information on the FRIEDEBURG among the records of her builder, Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd, now deposited in the Glasgow University Archives and Business Records Centre, Reference: UGD 4, UGD 149, UGD 339 and UCS 3.
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