Emanuele Accame

Date of launch1891
Place of launchPertusola
Type4-masted steel barque
GRT2142
NRT1843
DWT3000
Length82.9 m (272.0 ft)
Beam12.3 m (40.5 ft)
Draft7.6 m (25.0 ft)

Later names: Ferm (1912), Elsa Olander (1916), Svecia (1920), C.B. Pedersen (1922)

  • 1891
    Built of steel by the Continental Lead & Iron Company Ltd., Perusola, Italy, for Fratelly Accame fu E, Genoa. She was given the name Emanuele Accame and was rigged as a four-masted barque carrying royals over double topgallant sails.

  • 1912
    Sold to Skibs A/S Grimstad and renamed the Ferm.

  • 1915
    Sold to Rosørs Seilskibs A/S.

  • 1916
    Sold to Rederi AB Sydatlanten, Stockholm and renamed the Elsa Olander.

  • 1917
    Sold to Rederi AB Mimosa, Stockholm

  • 1920
    Transferred to Rederi AB Svenska Lloyd, Gothenburg and renamed the Svecia. Soon thereafter laid up in Gothenburg.

  • 1922
    Sold to Rederi AB Portanus, Gothenburg and renamed the C.B. Pedersen. Used as a cargo-carrying schoolship on the Australian wheat trade.

  • 1937
    Run down by the steamer Chagres and sunk.


References:
  • Alex A. Hurst: Hur all världens råtacklade fyr- och femmastade skepp slutade sin levnad, Longitude - tidskrift från de sju haven 23 pp. 76 - 93, ISSN 0024-6328, published by Carlstedt Förlag AB, Stockholm 1987
  • Alex A. Hurst: En lista på all världens 4- och 5-mastade råtacklade skepp, Longitude - tidskrift från de sju haven 22 pp. 7 - 31, ISSN 0024-6328, published by Carlstedt Förlag AB, Stockholm 1986

Vessel database
Alphabetic listing
Chronological listing

Articles and nautical terms

Search the site (with Google):
Support the site:



Copyright (C) 2000 Fredrik Sandström <fs@iki.fi>