Emanuele Accame

A four-masted steel barque built in 1891 by the Continental Lead & Iron Company Ltd., Pertusola, Italy, for Fratelli Accame fu E, Genoa. Her dimensions were 82,92×12,34×7,62 meters [289'0"×40'5"×25'3"] and tonnage 2142 GRT, 1843 NRT and 3000 DWT.

1891

Launched at the Continental Lead & Iron Company Ltd., Pertusola (La Spezia), Italy, for Fratelli Accame fu E, Genoa.

1912 July

Sold to Skibs A/S Grimstad (Marcussen, Jørgensen & Co.), Grimstad, Norway, and was renamed Ferm.

1916 January

Sold to Risør Seilskibs Co. A/S (Alex. Prebensen), Risør.

1916 July 10

Sold to Rederi AB Sydatlanten, Stockholm, for SEK 680.000 and renamed Elsa Olander. Her first Swedish master was Captain Carl Petter Mattsson.

1917 December

Sold to Rederi AB Mimosa (Harald Schüssler), Stockholm.

1920 June 8

Transferred to Rederi AB Svenska Lloyd, Gothenburg, and renamed Svecia. After having sailed to Gothenburg, where she was to be re-built as a sail training ship, she was laid up.

1922 June

Sold for SEK 60.000 to Rederi AB Portunus (Alex. Pedersen), Gothenburg, and renamed C.B. Pedersen. The master was the legendary Captain Jean Hjalmar Dahlström.

1935

At the retirement of Captain Dahlström his place was taken by Captain Harald Olof Bruce.

1937 April 25

Run down and sunk by the Elders & Fyffes steamer Chagres of Glasgow SW of the Azores at position 35°36' N and 35°41' W. The master of the Chagres died of a heart attach at the accident.

References:

• Four- and five masted ships, general references.
• Alvåker, Torsten: Det snöpliga slutet för C.B. Pedersen.
  Longitude 11, Stockholm, 1976. s. 56-63, ill.
• (Axwik, Axel): Fyrmastade barkskeppet C.B. Pedersen av Göteborg, Svecia av Göteborg och Elsa Olander av Stockholm.
  Svenska Segelfartyg årg. 1, Malmö,1937. pp 105-106,108,ill.
• Dahlström, Hjalmar: Seglande skepp och seglande sjömän. Minnesanteckningar från ett liv i segelskutor.
  Svensk Sjöfartstidning, Göteborg, 1958. -8vo, 208 pp, ill.
• Davidsson, Jan: De seglade för Göteborg.
  Signum, Lund, 1979. 8vo, 144 pp, ill.
• Edgren, Eric: Möte på Ekvatorn.
  Kring kajutlampan, Göteborg, 1977. pp 87-89. C.B. Pedersen and Herzogin Cecilie met at the Equator in March 1928 after having left Australia at about the same time.
• Ekman, Örjan & Petersson, Bertil Chr.: Styrmans 314 dagar i C.B. Pedersen.
  Longitude 14, Stockholm, 1978. pp 52-75, ill.
• Lagström, Bertil: Dagboksanteckningar under resa till Australien med fyrmastbarken C.B. Pedersen år 1929/30.
  Longitude 18, Stockholm, 1982. pp 54-67, ill.
• Pettersson, Stig S.: C.B. Pedersen.
  Rospiggen Nr 26, Elmsta, 1965. pp 35-37, ill.
• Johannesson, Tomas: Pedersens rederier.
  Båtologen årg. 25, Viken, 1987. pp 208-213, ill. Med Fleetlist Nr 141;
• Petersson, Bertil Chr.: Elsa Olanders olyckliga resa till Fjärran Östern.
  Longitude 5, Stockholm, 1970. pp 54-66, ill.
• Schale, Ernst: Efter stormen.
  Longitude 16, Stockholm, 1980. pp 78-79.
• Tandberg, Arne: (Personal communication).
  Bergen, 1997.

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