Glückauf (1886)

The Gluckauf was an oil tanker of the transport company Wilhelm Anton Riede man in Geestemünde, which was taken in 1886 in the operation. It shall, together with the simultaneously built Petrolea, the world's first sea-going oil tanker of modern design.

History

After the haulage firm Wilhelm Anton Riede man let retool his ship Andromeda in the yard Tecklenborg in Geestemünde for oil tankers, he was in Germany no shipyard, ready found himself, to create an oil tanker with a steam engine as a new building according to his plans. The first shipyard, found himself ready to was Armstrong & Mitchell in Low Walker, Newcastle on Tyne, United Kingdom. This built the Gluckauf 1886 Yard No. 473 for Riede 's forwarding companies. After it was first strike on their first trip to New York by the port workers, who saw their jobs at risk, the Gluckauf for its owner to a great success was. The following numerous new buildings on the principle of Gluckauf ensured within a short time that the price of petroleum in Europe fell by half.

End

On March 4, 1893 Good luck stepped in ballast from Świnoujście to New York. The ship sailed under the command of Captain Borger, who made ​​his first trip as captain. On 22 of the month one of the steam boiler was leaking, then you belittle its steam power and on 23 March the ship took its pilots for final passage on the North American east coast on board - this was confirmed when boarding by the part of the ship's officers calculated ship's started but not with his advice. On March 24, around 3 clock the helmsman Kuhlemann was applied by the captain, to begin sounding when the Gluckauf stranded at high water in dense fog at Blue Point Beach, Fire Iceland, New York. The guessed due to ship drifted in the strong surf continues on the beach and could be refloated with own neither measures nor with tug assistance. Since mortal danger for the crew consisted that Good luck was finally abandoned and a total loss.

The Maritime Authority met on 27 May and 3 June in 1893 and complained in his statement that the trip had not been lowered far enough to the looming fog and that was started too late with the solders.