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SCHARNHORST (1904) The SCHARNHORST boarding troops and sailors. Source: Edwin Drechsel, Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, 1857-1970; History, Fleet, Ship Mails, vol. 1 (Vancouver: Cordillera Pub. Co., c1994), p. 343, from the collection of Robert Potts. To request a larger copy of this scan, click on the picture. |
The steamship SCHARNHORST, the first of two vessels of this name owned by Norddeutscher Lloyd, was built by J. C. Tecklenborg, Geestemünde (yard #181), and was launched on 14 May 1904. 8,131 tons; 143,79 x 17 meters (length x breadth); 1 funnel, 2 masts; twin-screw propulsion, triple-expansion engines, service speed 14 knots; accommodation for 75+39 passengers in 1st class, 107+8 in 2nd class, 122 in 3rd class, and 2,059 in steerage (later 151 in 1st class, 167 in 2nd class, and 648 in 3rd class); crew of 170.
31 August 1904, maiden voyage, Bremen-Suez Canal-Australia. 25 May 1905, first of 3 roundtrip voyages, Hamburg-Suez Canal-Far East. 5 December 1908-21 February 1914, five roundtrip voyages, Bremen-New York. 8 April 1914, last of 19 roundtrip voyages, Bremen-Australia. 1914-1915, hospital ship. 20 February 1915, returned to Norddeutscher Lloyd. Transport 11 in the 1917 Oesel and 1918 Finland Expeditions. 6 February 1919, seized by France at Cherbourg while in prisoner exchange service; managed by Messageries Maritimes. 1921, to C.G.T.; renamed LA BOURDONNAIS; 8,287 tons; 13 knots; accommodation for 122 passengers in cabin, 500 in 3rd class. 2 April 1921-20 January 1923, Havre-New York. 3 March 1923, first voyage, Bordeaux-New York. 31 January 1931, last voyage, Bordeaux - Vigo - Halifax - New York. 5 March 1931, laid up at Bordeaux. 1934, sold to Petersen & Ahlbeck, Copenhagen, for scrap; resold. 11 October 1934, arrived at Genoa for scrapping.
Sources: Arnold Kludas, Die Seeschiffe des Norddeutschen Lloyd, Bd. 1: 1857 bis 1919 (Herford: Koehler, c1991), p. 130 (photograph); Edwin Drechsel, Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, 1857-1970; History, Fleet, Ship Mails. vol. 1 (Vancouver: Cordillera Pub. Co., c1994), p. 343, no. 204 (photograph); 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. 1 (1975), p. 569.
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SCHILLER (1842) Model "Wilhelm von Bremen" of the ship SCHILLER, by Friedrich Wilhelm Junghans, Bremen, helmsman, 1840's. 30 x 13 x 31 cm. Focke-Museum, Bremen, Inv.-Nr. B.1040a, purchased from the Junghans family in 1916. Source: Johannes Lachs, Schiffe aus Bremen; Bilder und Modelle im Focke-Museum (Bremen: H. M. Hauschild, [1994]), p. 85, no. 59. For a copy of this picture, contact the Focke-Museum. |
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The Bremen ship SCHILLER was built at Vegesack/Grohn by Johann Lange, for D. H. Wätjen & Co, and was launched on 9 July 1842. 227 Commerzlasten; 35,0 x 9,0 x 5,7 meters (length x beam x depth of hold). Under captains Hans Peter Gabriel Johannsen and Claus Bahr, both from Vegesack, the SCHILLER served in the North Atlantic trade, carrying emigrants to North America and returning with cargoes of tobacco and wool. In 1861, the SCHILLER was sold for 13,250 taler to J. Ekman & Co, of Goteborg, Sweden, and renamed PENELOPE (511 tons register). Her captains under Swedish registry were, in turn, N. O. F. Thulin, J. Moolbach, T. Overgaard, and Andersen. In November 1874, the PENELOPE ex SCHILLER, bound from Bjorneborg to Cartagena with a cargo of wood, was found floating, abandoned, in the North Sea; she was taken to Blaavand, Denmark, and condemned. No trace of the crew was ever found; in all probability, they abandoned her on the assumption that she would sink, and in the effort to save themselves were drowned.
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), p. 204, no. 172.
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SCHILLER (1861)
The Bremen bark SCHILLER was built at Motzen, on the Weser River, by William Waller of the shipbuilding firm of D. Oltmann W[it]we, for the Bremen firm of D. H. Wätjen & Co (the second of three vessels of this name to belong to the company), and was launched on 21 August 1861. 265 Commerzlasten / 590 tons register; 42,7 x 9,6 x 5,1 meters (length x beam x depth of hold). Like the first SCHILLER, she was engaged primarily in the transport of emigrants to the United States, returning with a cargo of either tobacco or cotton. Her captains were Claus Bahr, from Vegesack (who had been the last master of the first SCHILLER), Windeler Wischhusen, from Mittelsburen, and H. Gloistein. In 1878, the SCHILLER was sold to the shipbuilding firm of H. F. Ulrichs, in Vegesack; as Ulrichs had just built a new, iron bark, also named SCHILLER, for Wätjen, this sale most probably represented at least partial payment for the new vessel. The new master was H. Fettjuch. In 1883, the SCHILLER was sold to W. Maack, of Rostock, and Jacob Zeplien, of Wustrow; the new master was Albert Zeplien. On 5 October 1889, the SCHILLER, bound from Savannah for Buenos Aires with a cargo of wood, was severely damaged, and on 8 October 1889, entered the harbor at St. George, in the Bermuda Islands, where on 10 February 1890, she was condemned and dismantled.
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), p. 456, no. 78.
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