Bertha

A steel barque built in 1892 by Grangemouth Dockyard Co., Grangemouth, as yard no. 163. Dimensions: 74,11×11,70×6,88 meters [248'2"×38'4"×22'4"] and tonnage: 1653 GRT, 1499 NRT and 2600 DWT.

1892 July 6: Launched at the shipyard of Grangemouth Dockyard Co., Grangemouth, for Joh. H. Soost, Hamburg. Assigned the official German signal RJQD.
1899-1900: Captain M. Dietrich.
1899: Sailed from Rio de Janeiro to Tocopilla in 43 days.
1899/1900: Sailed from Tocopilla to Lizard Point in 91 days.
1901-1904: Captain F.J. Alster.
1902: Sailed from Lizard Point to East London in 62 days.
1903: Sailed from East London to Buenos Ayres in 34 days.
1903: Sailed from Buenos Ayres to Sydney in 62 days.
1903/04: Sailed from Port Pirie - Eddystone in 104 days.
1904: Sold to H.H. Schmidt, Hamburg.
1904: Sailed from Lizard Point to Seattle in 154 days.
1905-1907: Captain E. Wohlers.
1906: Sailed from Lizard Point to Sydney in 117 days.
1906: Sailed from Newcastle, NSW, to Junin in 61 days.
1907: Sailed from Pisagua to Lizard Point in 95 days.
1908: Captain G. Klüß.
1909-1912: Captain D. Michelsen.
1909: Sailed from Lizard Point to Sydney in 114 days.
1910: Sailed from Sydney to Falmouth f/o in 129 days.
1912 May 2: Sold to O.A. Färdig, Nystad. Captain F.I. Rinne.
1915 August 26: Sold to Korsnäs Sågverks AB, Gefle, for SEK 150.000.
1917 March 12: Sold to Emil Löfgren, Stockholm, for SEK 400.000.
1917 April 2: Sold to Förnyade Ångfartygs AB Viking, Gothenburg, for SEK 500.000 and was renamed Bohus. Assigned the official Swedish Reg. No. 5903 and signal KBCV. Captain Ragnar Erik Nyberg, Stockholm.
1920 July 5: Captain Uno Ture Emanuel Jakobsson, Oskarshamn.
1921 June: Transferred to Rederi AB Transatlantic, Gothenburg.
1924 January 9: Sold to Adler Reederei AG (Dönitz, Witt & Co.), Hamburg, for SEK 40.000. The intention was to use the ship as sail training school ship. [Meyer has April 22]
1924 April 23: Sailed from Gothenburg for Taltal in ballast under command of Captain Hugo Ferdinad Blume.
1924 April 26: Wrecked on Otters Wick, Orkney Islands.

References:

Square-rigged ships, general references.
Svenska järn- och stålseglare.
Båtologen Årg. 29-31 (1991-93).
Lille, Sten & Grönstrand, Lars: Finlands djupvattenseglare.
Etelä-soumen kustannus oy, Lieto, 1979. 4to, 224 pp, ill.
Meyer, Jürgen: Hamburgs Segelschiffe 1795-1945.
Heinemann, Norderstedt, 1974. 4to, 296 pp, ill.

Updated 1997-04-16 by Lars Bruzelius

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