Hermann (1)

The steamship HERMANN was ordered in August 1864 and laid down for Norddeutscher Lloyd as the EUROPA by Caird & Co., Greenock, Scotland (ship no. 124), but was launched in June 1865 as the HERMANN, in honor of the founder of Norddeutscher Lloyd (Hermann Heinrich Meier) and of the Germanic hero. 2,715 tons; 96,92 x 12,19 meters (318 x 40 feet; length x beam); clipper bow, 1 funnel, 2 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, service speed 11.5 knots; accommodation for 76 passengers in 1st class, 107 in 2nd class, and 570 in steerage. 17 December 1865, maiden voyage, Bremen-Southampton-New York. 1872, engines compounded by Day, Summers & Co., Southampton; service speed 12.5 knots, coal consumption cut by 30 percent. 21 April 1884, stranded on the Tegeler Plate off the mouth of the Weser, and broke her keel; complete reconstruction with straight bow, triple-expansion engine. 22 December 1892, last voyage, Bremen-New York. 13 February 1893, sold to Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co., in part exchange for the H. H. MEIER. 1895, sold to H. F. Swan, Newcastle. 1896, scrapped in Genoa. Sources: Edwin Drechsel, Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, 1857-1970; History, Fleet, Ship Mails (Vancouver: Cordillera Pub. Co., c1994-c1995), vol. 1, p. 18, no. 13 (illustration); Nigel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd. ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 2 (1978), p. 545. Photograph in Michael J. Anuta, Ships of Our Ancestors (Menominee, MI: Ships of Our Ancestors, 1983), p. 124, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museu, East India Square, Salem, MA 01970 -

Citation: [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 28 February 1998]

Hermann (2)

The "Hermann" of 1881 was built by the Sunderland Shipbuilding Co (engines by G.Clark, Sunderland) for the D.G.Pinkney & Sons but was bought on the stocks by the White Cross Line of Antwerp. Her details were - 2,879 gross tons, length 322.2ft x beam 40ft, clipper stem, one funnel, three masts, rigged for sail, iron construction, single screw and a speed of 11 knots. Launched on 28/4/1881, she sailed from Antwerp on her maiden voyage to New York on 30/6/1881. On 3/12/1894 she commenced her last crossing from Antwerp to Boston and New York and was sold to Norwegian owners and renamed "Hero" the same year. In 1907 she went to US owners and was renamed "Success" and was resold to US owners in 1908 and named "Jacob Luckenbach". On 5/7/1916 she was sunk in collision with the "Eddystone" near Downs light vessel in the English Channel. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.2,p.825] -

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John Hermann

The JOHN HERMANN was built by the shipwright Hermann Friedrich Ulrichs, in Vegesack/Fahr (now part of Bremen), for the Bremen firm of Gildemeister & Ries, and launched on 10 April 1850 as the VICTORIA. 200 Commerzlasten/ 488 tons register; 36,2 x 8,1 x 5,2 meters (length x beam x depth of hold). Her maiden voyage, Hermann Otto, master, was to Batavia. On 15 December 1851, the VICTORIA was sold to Hanna Dorothea Eleonora Langnese Wwe, of Hamburg, who renamed her JOHN HERMANN. Master: 1851-1854 - K. J. Diekmann; 1854-1855 - G. C. Speckhahn; 1855-1858 - H. J. Bornholdt; 1858-1861 - K. J. Diekmann. Voyages: 1852-1853 - New York (4 times); 1853/54 - New York/Belfast; 1854 - New York; 1854/55 - New York/Waterford, Ireland; 1855-1857 - New York; 1857/58 - New York/London; 1858/61 - New York/intermediate ports/Bremerhaven. In 1861, the JOHN HERMANN was "sold Norwegian", to H. Parr, of Drobak, who renamed the vessel HENRY PARR; her masters were, in turn, Christoffersen, Wang, and Larsen. On 13 March 1887, Larsen, master, bound from Christiania to London with a cargo of ice, she stranded on Shipwash Sands, off Harwich, and became a total loss [Peter-Michael Pawlik, Von der Weser in die Welt; Die Geschichte der Segelschiffe von Weser und Lesum und ihrer Bauwerften 1770 bis 1893, Schriften des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums, Bd. 33 (Hamburg: Kabel, c1993), p. 274, no. 27; 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, p. 10]. - [E-mail from Michael Palmer to Clara Kress; Submitted by Clara Kress 18 April 1998]

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