Richard With

With Richard ( born September 18, 1846 in Tromsø, Norway, † February 9, 1930 in Oslo) was a Norwegian captain and shipowner. He founded the mail-boat line Hurtigruten.

Richard With was born on September 18, 1846, the fifth of nine siblings in Tromso. During his education at Teachers College in Tromsø, he traveled with his father - also a captain on merchant ships - regularly between Vardo and mountains. After completing his first mate exam in Trondheim, he went on different merchant ships several years. In 1875 he moved to Risøyhamn and acquired the local trading post, which he developed further in subsequent years with business acumen. The money generated in this was the basis for his first ship that came for his, along with business partners, newly founded in November 1881 shipping company that Vesteraalske Dampskibsselskab A / S ( VDS) as D / S Vesterålen used. With this ship, sailed as captain With the Lofotengewässer and the coasts of Norway and garnered so vital nautical information to coastal waters. This information, which it procured the decisive edge in the tendering of a new state postal shipping line between Trondheim and Vadsø in 1891 were. So he took on 2 July 1893, the D / S Vesteraalen the first Hurtigrutefahrt. A year later in 1894 he became the sole director of "his" Vesteraalske Dampskibsselskab A / S. In subsequent years, the mail boat route has been continuously expanded and extended. More ships were used. In 1908 he was 62 years old retired and moved to Oslo. There he devoted himself to other nautical projects. Again and again, he made his way back to the Hurtigruten However, when it came to there new projects or the establishment of new shipping lanes, for example. In the years 1910-1912 he was parliamentary representative in Oslo. He died on 9 February 1930.

Two Hurtigruten passenger ships were named after him, in 1909, commissioned in Richard With Vester Aalen Dampskibsselskab and entered service in 1993 Richard With Hurtigruten ASA.

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