The Bremen bark INDUSTRIE was built at Vegesack/Grohn by Johann Lange, and launched on 8 July 1857. She was built for a consortium consisting of Anton Papendieck, Bremen (3/8); Arend Hilken, of Vegesack (2/8), who was also master of the vessel; and Lüder Stelljes, Johann Raschen, and Hinrich Wehmann, all of Vegesack (1/8 each). International Signal Code: QBMT; 262 Commerzlasten / 596 tons register; 38,8 x 9 x 5,3 meters (length x beam x depth of hold).

In 1865, the INDUSTRIE was sent to pick up the passengers of the Bremen ship JULIA, which had stranded in the Orkney Islands on 24 September of that year, and to transport them to their intended destination, New York, where she arrived on 24 November. The Wochenschrift für Vegesack und Umgegend for 13 December 1865 reported:

Die Bremer Bark INDUSTRIE, Capt. Hilcken, welche die Passagiere des auf den Orkney-Inseln gestrandeten Schiffes JULIA abholte, und über welche seiner Zeit beunruhigende Gerüchte in den Zeitungen coursirten, ist laut eingetroffenen Nachrichten am 13. Novbr. glücklich in Newyork angekommen. Dieselbe brachte gleichzeitig die Besatzung der Brig ALMORE, welche ihr Schiff in See abandonirt hatte und von der INDUSTRIE gerettet worden war.

For his rescue of the crew of the American vessel ALMORE, Capt. Hilcken received a gold watch from the American government.

In January 1877, the INDUSTRIE, under the command of Capt. Lakemann, was anchored 3 miles off the coast of Tamarindo, on the west coast of Nicaragua, loading cedar for Bremen, when she drifted onto an uncharted reef and sank; the crew was landed safely. The INDUSTRIE was later got off and towed to the port of Corinto, where divers enlarged the hole made by the impact with the reef and discharged the cargo. The vessel itself, however, must have been condemned as irreparable, as she is listed in Bremen records for 1877 as a total loss.

Source: 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. 233-234, no. 237.