Wilhelmine
An iron full-rigged ship built in 1875 by A.G. Weser, Bremen.
Dimensions: 195'0"×32'0"×19'0" and tonnage: 877 GRT and 846 NRT.
Later re-rigged as a barque.
- 1875
- Launched at the shipyard of A.G. Weser, Bremen, for Fritze & Gerdes [?], Bremen. Assigned the official German signal QCTB.
- 1890 November 15
- Sold to Rederiet Wilhelmine A/S (P.N. Winther), Nordy, Fanø, Denmark, by Oetling Gebrüder, Hamburg, for DEM 138.000.
- 1908 September 21
- Sold to Wilhelm Ernst Schauß, Hamburg, for £ 1525 and was renamed Printz Louis Ferdinand.
Assigned the official German signal RQBL. The new measurements were 57,50×9,78×5,88 meters and 876 GRT.
- 1909 February 12
- Incorporated in the Ovcean-Line Reederei GmbH, Hamburg.
- 1909 September 17
- Renamed Ocean.
- 1910 March
- Sold at auction to Behnke & Sieg, Danzig, and later sold to be broken up.
References:
- Square-rigged ships, general references.
- Holm-Petersen, F.: Maritime minder fra Fanø.
Høst & Søn, København, 1980. Sq8vo, 48 pp, ill.
- Holm-Petersen, F.: Fanø Sejlskibe. Beretningar og breve fra de
hvide sejls dage.
Henning Clausens Boghandel, Aarhus, 1959. 8vo, 334 pp, ill.
Updated 1997-05-11 by
Lars Bruzelius
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