Oliver Moses

A wooden fullrigged ship built in 1856 by ..., Bath, ME. Dimensions: ___'_"×__'_"×__'_" and tonnage: ____ GRT, ____ NRT and ____ tons under deck.

1856: Launched at the shipyard of ..., for .... Assigned the official British Reg. No. _____ and signal ____. Employed in the ... trade.
c1862: Sold to British owners, and was renamed Vancouver.
1864 December 14: Sold by Gillespie, Churchill & Co., mortgagees, to Bernhard Wencke, Hamburg, for £ 6500.
1864 December 23: Sold to Robert Miles Sloman, Hmaburg, and was renamed Leibnitz.
1888 April 27: Was renamed Liebig.
18..: Sold to ... and was renamed .
18.. September 17 - December 24: Sailed from ... to ... in .. days under Captain ....
1870 December 12: Wrecked at Baker Island.

LIEBIG This is the Hamburg sailing ship LIEBIG, which was built in Bath, ME, in 1856, and launched as the OLIVER MOSES. I have no information on the early history of the OLIVER MOSES, as there is no reference to her in William Armstrong Fairburn, Merchant Sail (6 vols.; Center Lovell, ME: Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation, [1945-1955]). However, there should be some information in George A. Preble and F. S. Partridge, A complete schedule of vessels built and registered in the district of Bath, Maine, commencing at 1783, giving rig, name, tonnage, where built, first master, registering owner, and hailing port (Bath, ME: Fen G. Parker, 1878), and the Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St., Bath, ME 04530, may have additional information not available elsewhere. In 1861 or 1862, the OLIVER MOSES was sold to British interests, and renamed VANCOUVER, under which name she appears in the annual volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1862/63-1867/68: ship VANCOUVER, R. Peck, master, 1101 tons, 179.1 x 36.2 x 23.7 feet (length x beam x depth of hold), built in the United States in 1856, owned by "W de M'ttos" [crossed out in the Register for 1867/68], registered in London, surveyed in Cardiff, destined voyage Vancouver. It is important to note that Lloyd's Register often continues to print outdated information on vessels sold abroad for several years after the sale. In fact, on 14 December 1864, the VANCOUVER was sold by Gillespie, Churchill & Co., mortgagees, for 6,500 pounds sterling, to the Hamburg shipowner Bernhard Wencke, who in turn ceded her, on 23 December 1864, to the Hamburg shipowner Robert Miles Sloman, who renamed her LEIBNITZ. On 22 April 1865, Sloman sold 1/8 shares in the vessel to J. C. Jorgensen, Fr. L. Loesener, and Bernhard Wencke, for a total of 33,129/4/- Marks Banco, which probably represents a mortgage on the unpaid balance of the purchase price; on 10 May 1867, Sloman re-acquired Wencke's 1/8 share, to increase his share in the vessel to 6/8. The LEIBNITZ was rated in Hamburg records at 446 Commerzlasten, and 192.4 x 34.8 x 23.4 Hamburg feet (length x beam x depth of hold). She was renamed LIEBIG on 27 April 1868. Master: 1865-1866 - J. P. M. Stolzenberg; 1867-1870 - H. F. C. W. Bornhold. Voyages: 1865-1867 - La Plata/intermediate ports/Valparaiso/Baker Island, South Pacific; 1867 - Quebec; 1867-1868 - New York/Liverpool; 1868-1870 - Quebec/intermediate ports/Callao; 1870 - Baker Island; On 12 December 1870, the LIEBIG became a total loss at Baker Island [Walter Kresse, ed., Seeschiffs-Verzeichnis der Hamburger Reedereien, 1824-1888, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Hamburgische Geschichte, N. F., Bd. 5. (Hamburg: Museum fur Hamburgische Geschichte, 1969), vol. 2, pp. 213 and 215; Ernst Hieke, Rob. M. Sloman Jr., errichtet 1793, Veroffentlichungen der Wirtschaftsgeschichtlichen Forschungestelle e.V., Hamburg, Bd. 30 (Hamburg: Verlag Hanseatischer Merkur, 1968), p. 376].[Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 10 November 1997]

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