Pisagua (ship)

The Pisagua was a steel four-masted bark of F. Laeisz and belonged to the fleet of the famous Flying P -Liner.

Launched and most important data

The 2850 GRT ship was built in 1892 at the shipyard John C. Tecklenborg in Geestemünde. It had a length of 95 meters and it was 13.58 meters wide and had a draft of 7.94 meters. The Pisagua was measured with 2,850 GRT. It sailed the seas from 1892 to 1913. It was named after the city Pisagua in Chile.

South America service, and circumnavigation

His maiden voyage took under Captain J. Früdden in 92 days to Valparaiso (Chile ) and on to Iquique. In the following years it was used exclusively between Europe and Chile. Only in 1897 was the Pisagua on a global journey across Kolkata to Boston and Philadelphia, before they sailed home via Iquique in the Elbe estuary.

Accident, selling and beaching

1912 ended the winning streak of Pisagua: On March 16, she rammed at Beachy Head on the south coast without own fault the British passenger steamer Oceana the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, which had driven her into the course. The Oceana fell, the Pisagua had to be brought in for repair to Dover.

In June 1912, the barque was sold to the Norwegian shipping company A / S Örnen in Sandefjord and converted into a whaler. On 12 February 1913, the Pisagua stranded on the trip in their fishing grounds off Iceland Low, one of the South Shetland Islands.

Source

• Bruzelius.info