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SHAK[E]SPEAR[E] (1856) Oil painting, by J. & F. Tudgay, 1864. Focke-Museum, Bremen, Inv.-Nr. B.575. 57,5 x 89,5 cm; purchased 1908. Reproduced in Johannes Lachs, Schiffe aus Bremen; Bilder und Modelle im Focke-Museum (Bremen: H. M. Hauschild, [1994]), p. 139, plate 112. For a copy of this picture, contact the Focke-Museum. |
The Bremen ship SHAK[E]SPEAR[E] was built at Quincy, Massachusetts, by G. Thomas, and launched in 1856. 1183 tons (821 Commerzlasten), 180 x 35 x 22 feet (length x beam x depth of hold). On 4 February 1856, she was purchased by the Bremen firm of D. H. Wätjen & Co, to whom she belonged until 1878, when she was sold to Louis Kalkmann, who employed her in the transportation of petroleum from the United States to Europe. She was abandoned in the North Atlantic in December 1889, during a hurricane.
Sources: Lloyd's Register of Shipping, annual volumes for 1876/77-1881/82; Otto Höver, Von der Galiot zum Fünfmaster; Unsere Segelschiffe in der Weltschiffahrt 1780-1930 (Bremen: Angelsachsen-Verlag, 1934), pp. 277 and 322; Rolf Reinemuch, Segler aus Downeast; Die unerschrockenen Männer von der Weser und ihre prachtigen Schiffe aus Neu-England(Herford: Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, c1971), pp. 40 and 138; Johannes Lachs, Schiffe aus Bremen; Bilder und Modelle im Focke-Museum (Bremen: H. M. Hauschild, [1994]), p. 139, no. 112.
Voyages:
[28 Sep 1998]
SHOOTING STAR (1853)
The British ship SHOOTING STAR was built under Lloyd's Register of Shipping Special Survey at Quebec by Thomas C. Lee in 1853. 1518/1362 tons (old/new measurement), readmeasured 1160 tons in 1861. Measurements (1863): 204.5 x 39.8 x 21.8 (length x beam x depth of hold); 1 deck, eliptic stern, scroll figurehead. She was re-registered at Liverpool on 8 April 1854 [Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston, Wallace Ship List, quoting Frederick William Wallace, Record of Canadian shipping; a list of squarerigged vessels, mainly 500 tons and over, built in the Eastern Provinces of British North America from the year 1786 to 1920 (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1929); Canadian Ship Database, No. 9028159, quoting National Archives of Canada, RG 42, Vol. 1408 (original Vol. 197 = microfilm reel C-2062), and No. 91000873, quoting Eileen Reid Marcil, The Charley-Man; a history of wooden shipbuilding at Quebec, 1763-1893 (Kingston, Ont.: Quarry Press, 1993); a microfilm copy of the Lloyd's Register of Shipping survey is held by the National Archives of Canada, microfilm reel A-434, Survey 66]. The annual volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1854/55-1866/67 contain the following additional information on this vessel:
Master:
1854/55-1856/57 - [not given]
1857/58-1858/59 - Gillies
1859/60-1861/62 - [E.] Allen
1861/62-1866/67 - J. Dyer
Owner:
1854/55-1856/57 - "M'Clm'nt"
1857/58-1861/62 - Currie & Co.
1862/63 - J. & T. Johnson
1863/64 - J. & T. Johnson [crossed out]
1864/65-1866/67 - [not given]
Port of Registry:
1854/55-1861/62 - Liverpool
1862/63-1863/64 - Runcorn
1864/65-1866/67 - [not given]
Port of Survey: Liverpool
Destined voyage:
1854/55-1858/59 - [not given]
1859/60-1861/62 - Australia
1862/63-1866/67 - New York
The entry for the vessel in Lloyd's Register for 1866/67 is posted "abandoned".
[19 Apr 1999]