History
The Geertruida Gerarda was built between 1902 and 1904 at the J. & K. Smit yard in Krimpen aan de Lek, just east of Rotterdam. The yard, raised in 1847, had some experience building large sailing vessels. [6] The ship was named after an 1890 three-mast barque under the same name, [7] [8] that was abandoned and sank west of Australia in 1902. [9] First owner of the Geertruida Gerarda (2) was Pieter van der Hoog, a former skipper and an entrepreneur who had been in shipping since 1877. [7] The ship made her maiden voyage from Rotterdam to Batavia carrying a load of break bulk cargo, departing 20 April 1905. [7]
In 1906 Van der Hoog died and the ship came under the management of Cornelis Lels, a ship owner in Rotterdam. He sold the vessel in 1910 to the Hamburg, Germany based Rhederei AG von 1896, [10] that renamed her Olympia. [11] At the onset of World War I the ship was in Iquique, Chile and she was interned. After the war the owner was forced to hand her over to the Italian government as war reparation. The Italians never did much with the ship and she was demolished in Genoa in 1926. [7]
Krimpen aan den IJssel is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality had a population of 29,376 in 2019, and covers an area of 8.95 km2 (3.46 sq mi) of which 1.26 km2 (0.49 sq mi) is water.
Ridderkerk is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality had a population of 46,241 in 2019, and covers an area of 25.26 km2 (9.75 sq mi) of which 1.54 km2 (0.59 sq mi) is covered by water.
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts having the fore- and mainmasts rigged square and only the mizzen rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen is only partly fore-and-aft rigged, bearing a square-rigged sail above.
A full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel's sail plan with three or more masts, all of them square-rigged. A full-rigged ship is said to have a ship rig or be ship-rigged. Such vessels also have each mast stepped in three segments: lower mast, top mast, and topgallant mast. Other large, multi-masted sailing vessels may be regarded as a ships while lacking one of the elements of a full-rigged ship, e.g. having one or more masts support only a fore-and aft sail or having a mast that only has two segments.
Iron-hulled sailing ships represented the final evolution of sailing ships at the end of the age of sail. They were built to carry bulk cargo for long distances in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They were the largest of merchant sailing ships, with three to five masts and square sails, as well as other sail plans. They carried lumber, guano, grain or ore between continents. Later examples had steel hulls. They are sometimes referred to as "windjammers" or "tall ships". Several survive, variously operating as school ships, museum ships, restaurant ships, and cruise ships.
Peking is a steel-hulled four-masted barque. A so-called Flying P-Liner of the German company F. Laeisz, it was one of the last generation of cargo-carrying iron-hulled sailing ships used in the nitrate trade and wheat trade around Cape Horn.
Lekkerkerk is a town and former municipality on the Lek River, now part of the municipality of Krimpenerwaard, South Holland province, the Netherlands. Since 1 January 1985 Lekkerkerk is no longer an independent municipality.
Van der Giessen de Noord was a shipyard that mainly built ferries, located in Krimpen aan den IJssel, a town in the western Netherlands. The yard was especially suited to the construction of large vessels due to its developed undercover facilities.
Kankō Maru was Japan's first steam-powered warship. It was presented to the Tokugawa shogunate ruling Japan during the Bakumatsu period as a gift from King William III of the Netherlands to assist Janus Henricus Donker Curtius, head of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij in Japan in his efforts to establish formal diplomatic relations and the opening of Japanese ports to Dutch merchant vessels.
Krimpen aan de Lek is a town on the Lek River in the municipality of Krimpenerwaard, province of South Holland, the Netherlands. It had 6,607 inhabitants in 2008.
Potosi was a five-masted steel barque built in 1895 by Joh. C. Tecklenborg ship yard in Geestemünde, Germany, for the sailing ship company F. Laeisz as a trading vessel. Its primary purpose was as a "nitrate clipper" collecting guano in South America for use in chemical companies in Germany. As its shipping route was between Germany and Chile, it was designed to be capable of withstanding the rough weather encountered around Cape Horn.
Krimpenerwaard is a municipality of the Netherlands. It is a rural area located in the east of the province of South Holland, just south of Gouda and east of the Rotterdam conurbation. It is bordered on the north by the river Hollandse IJssel, on the south by the river Lek and on the east by the stream Vlist.
De Lek was a heerlijkheid (manor) and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the province South-Holland. It is named after the Lek River.
Afon Alaw was a four-masted sailing ship which served from 1891 until 1918. She had a sister ship, Afon Cefni. Afon Alaw was built by Alexander Stephen and Sons at their yard in Glasgow for Hughes & Co based at Menai Bridge in Anglesey. The vessel was named for a river in Anglesey. The vessel remained in British service until 1915, moving between three owners before being sold to a Norwegian company which renamed the vessel Storebror. Norway was neutral during World War I, however the German surface raider SMS Wolf did not want its position known and sank Storebror on 4 January 1918 to prevent the Norwegian ship from disclosing it.
Van der Schuyt, Van den Boom en Stanfries NV, or S.B.S. NV was a Dutch transport company. It was founded in 1948 in a period of change, when shipping companies were becoming trucking companies. It was a merger of three of the biggest inland shipping companies, originally offering scheduled and combined services for passengers, livestock and freight:
The Titan was a steam tug that was built in 1894 and sailed for three Dutch tug companies until it was decommissioned in 1935.
Ronald Johan Gottlieb Bandell was a Dutch civil servant and politician of the Political Party of Radicals (PPR) and later the Labour Party (PvdA).
Wim van Krimpen is a Dutch art historian, art dealer and gallery owner of Galerie Wim van Krimpen, and art gallery director. He was director at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden and the Kunstmuseum Den Haag in The Hague.
The Ardjoeno class was a ship class of paddle-steamers of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The class comprised Ardjoeno, Gedeh (1850), Amsterdam and Gedeh (1874).
