Omega (barque)
The Omega - to 1898 Drumcliff - was a four-masted barque built in 1887 in Greenock, Scotland with steel hull. It was used as a freighter for transporting oil, guano, nitrate, wheat and other goods.
His fame owes the ship, especially the fact that it is now in use on the Peruvian coast, the last square-rigged ship on cargo ride was worldwide in 1957. Its downfall in 1958 was the last sinking of a cargo carrying tall ship.
History
The Drumcliff was built at the shipyard J. Russell & Co. in Greenock (Scotland ) for Gillison & Chadwick in Liverpool, England. After its launch in January 1887 she was placed under the command of Captain H. Davies.
On July 28, 1898 Drumcliff was sold to the Hamburg Rhederei society act of 1896, from which it was renamed Omega. From 1898 to 1905, they sailed under Captain H. Krause, already her first big journey led them once around the world under the 1898 they broke from Lizard Point in the south of England to Adelaide in Australia. The following year we went back to Newcastle ( Australia) and the Chilean ports Tocopilla and Iquique to Lizard Point. Another great trip took the ship in 1905 from Hamburg to Santa Rosalía in the Gulf of California (Mexico) and Port Townsend in the U.S. state of Washington before they returned to Lizard Point in the following year.
1906-1907 Omega Captain M. Ratzsch was assumed from 1908 to 1910 followed him Captain A. Schellhas. Also under his command overcame the ship long routes between Europe, South America ( Pisagua and Tocopilla in Chile ), Africa ( Port Nolloth in South Africa) and Australia ( Newcastle). From 1910 to 1912, the Omega sailed under Captain G. Oellrich ports on the West Coast of the USA (San Diego, Portland, Oregon ), in Europe (Hamburg, Rotterdam ), Australia (Sydney, Newcastle) and South America ( Chile ) on. 1913-1914 took over Captain P. Hammer command.
During the First World War the ship was interned in 1917 in Peru. In 1918 it was used as a sail training ship.
1920, the Omega was delivered as war reparations to Peru and 1926, passed to the guano company Compania Adminstradora del Guano in Callao, Peru. From then on the ship for the guano transport between islands and the mainland Peruvian was used.
After the sinking of the Pamir and the decommissioning of the Passat - - As were gradually taken by all the tall ships from service in the following decades, the Omega 1957 was the world's last cargo-carrying square-rigged ship.
On 26 June 1958, the Omega slapped on a journey from the Pachacamac Islands to Huacho, both in the region of Lima, in the Peruvian coast with a cargo of 3,000 tons of guano leak and sank. It was the last sinking of a tall ship on freight ride.
Specifications
2381 tons under deck