Palmer List of Merchant Vessels
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UHLAND (1847)
SUOMI [1879]
Detail of painting of the launching of the Bremen ship
UHLAND at Vegesack, 23 September 1847. Oil painting by Carl
Justus Harmen Fedeler, 1847. Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven.
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. 213. To request a larger copy of this
scan, click on the picture.
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The Bremen ship UHLAND was built at Vegesack/Grohn by Johann
Lange, for the Bremen shipowner Hermann Henrich Meier (later one of the
founders of Norddeutscher Lloyd), and was launched on 23 September 1847.
She was named after the famous poet Ludwig Uhland, and was intended for
the Bremen-New Orleans packet service. 413 Commerzlasten / 938 tons
register; 43,7 x 10,6 x 6,3 meters (length x beam x depth of hold);
International Signal Code: QBMS. She was at the time of her launching the
largest German merchant ship. Masters: Jürgen Meyer (1847-1850),
Johann Wächter (1850-1853), Christian Lahusen (1853-1862), F. C. T.
Soltenborn (1862-1868), Johann Höljes (1868-....), and B. H.
Janssen. In 1879, she was sold to L. W. Wendelin, of Christinestad,
Finland, who changed her name to SUOMI. The SUOMI ex
UHLAND was abandoned at sea in 1889.
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. 212-213, no. 194.
[29 Nov 1997]