Mneme

A four-masted barque built of steel in 1903 by J. Reid & Co., Port Glasgow, Scotland. Her dimensions are 94,67×13,2×7,47 meters [302'0×43'2×24'7] and with a tonnage of 2376 GRT and 2144 NRT. Rigged in jubilee fashion, i.e. with nothing above double top- and top-gallant sails.

1903 February 24
Launched at the shipyard of J. Reid & Co., Port Glasgow, for B. Wencke Söhne, Hamburg. Assigned the German identification signal RNCK. Her first master was Captain J. Hansen.
1905-1906
Captain P. Petersen.
1905 February 8 — April 28
Sailed from Port Talbot to Tocopilla with a cargo of coal in 79 days.
1905 July 5 — October 21
Sailed from Tocopilla to Hamburg with a cargo of nitrate in 103 days.
1905 December 3 — April 8
Sailed from Hamburg to San Pedro in 118 days.
1906 January 30
Sold to Rhederei Akt. Gesellschaft von 1896, Hamburg.
1906 May 2 — June 14
Sailed from San Pedro to Tocopilla in ballast in 44 days.
1906 July 15 — November 6
Sailed from Tocopilla to Rotterdam.
1906 November 27
Sold to F. Laeisz, Hamburg, and renamed Pommern.
1907 — 1912
The first master for the new owner's was Captain M. Allwardt.
1910 June 19 — September 6
Sailed from Hamburg to Valparaiso.
1910 November — Januari 21
Sailed from Tocopilla to Lizard in 77 days.
1911 Januari 26
Collided with the four-masted barque Engelhorn off Helgoland and was towed into Hamburg for repairs.
1913-1914
Captain J. Frömcke.
1914 February 2
The first mate Hans Iversen Ravn relieved Captain Frömcke of his command when the latter became insane.
1914 April 16 — July 3
Sailed from Antwerpen to Valparaiso in 79 days.
1916-1919
Laid up in Valparaiso during WWI.
1920 October 9 — March 1
Sailed with nitrate from Valparaiso to Delfzijl under Captain Ravn.
1921-1923
Handed over as war damage compensation to the Greek Government after the war and was subsequently laid up in Delfzijl.
1923 May 23
Sold to Gustaf Erikson, Mariehamn, Åland, for £ 3750 and was put on the Australia-Europe wheat trade.
1923-1924 June
Captain Valfrid Gustafsson.
1924 June - 1927 May
Captain Edvard Johnsson, Eckerö.
1927 May - 1933
Captain Carl Granith, Sund.
1928 April 29 -
Sailed with a cargo of 3257 tons of salt from Liverpool to Granville.
1928 August 14
Arrived to Sydney.
1928 December 15 - April 17
Sailed from Sydney with a cargo of wheat to Queenstown for orders in 122 days.
1929 July 25 - October 20
Sailed with a cargo of 1057 standards of deals from Larvik, Norway, to Melbourne in 87 days.
1930 February 5 - May 22
Sailed with a cargo of wheat from Wallaroo to Falmouth for orders in 104 days.
1932 October 2 - December 23
Sailed in ballast from Mariehamn to Port Victoria in 75 days from Copenhagen.
1933 February 11 - May 20
Sailed with a cargo of wheat from Port Victoria to Falmouth in 97 days.
1933 September - 1939
Captain Karl Broman.
1938 January 30 - July 26
Sailed with a cargo of 48.872 sacks of wheat at 41/6 per ton from Port Germain to Falmouth for orders in 118 days.
1938 September 24 - December 11
Sailed with 1000 tons of ballast from Belfast to Port Victoria in 78 days.
1939 March 20 - July 15
Sailed from Port Victoria via the Cape of Good Hope to Falmouth for orders in 117 days. The four-masted barque Olivebank which left Port Victoria on the same day arrived to Falmouth two days after Pommern.
1839 August 11 - 21
Sailed with 850 tons of ballast from Hull to Mariehamn in ten days.
1939
Laid up in Mariehamn during the war.
1944 July 9
Towed from Mariehamn to Stockholm, Sweden, to be used as a grain storage.
1945
Towed to Åbo/Turku, Finland, with a cargo of grain and subsequently towed to Mariehamn after the cargo had been discharged at Åbo.
1953
Presented by the Erikson family to the City of Mariehamn and made into a museum.
1968 March
Sprung a leak and had to be towed to Åbo to be drydocked and repaired at Wärtsilä.
1975 June
Exhibited in Stockholm and afterwards drydocked at the Finnboda Varv.
1987
Drydocked in Stockholm.
1996
Drydocked at the Beckholmens Varv, Stockholm.
Presently serving as a museum ship in Mariehamn.

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Updated 1999-10-11 by Lars Bruzelius.


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