Dear List,
Seeking any further information on the following schooner Fortuna. Especially interested in the family of Pflugk who owned the vessel between 1839 and 1850.
Thank you
Mike.
The vessel in question is the Hamburg schooner FORTUNA, built in
Finkenwerder by Wriede in 1839 (Bielbrief 29 November 1839). 48
Commerzlasten, 64 x 23.6 x 11 Hamburg F"usse (1 Hamburg Fuss = .28657
meter) length x beam x depth of hold.
Owner:
1839 -1847 - Johann Christian Pflugk
1847 -24 Oct 1850 - Johann Christian Pflugks Erben
24 Oct 1850-12 Jun 1852 - Friedrich Pieper
12 Jun 1852-31 Jan 1854 - David Pieper
31 Jan 1854-1862 - Hans Pieper (David Pieper's father)
Master:
1839-1849 - J. J. Kr"uger
1840-1850 - J. Vil
1851-1852 - J. Witt
1852-1855 - F. Pieper
1855-1856 - D. Pieper
1857-1860 - J. F. Kock
1860-1862 - F. Pieper
Voyages:
1839/1840 - Plymouth/Sunderland
1840 - Le Havre
1840 - Hull/Middlesborough
1840 - New Ray/Malaga
1840/1841 - Bilbao/Cap Haitien
1841 - Dublin/Alicante
1842 - Leith/St Davids, Scotland
1842 - Hull
1842/1843 - San Jose, Guatemala/Liverpool
1843 - Newcastle upon Tyne/St Uebes (Setubal)
1843/1844 - Sierra Leone
1844/1845 - San Jose, Guatemala/Alicante
1845/1847 - La Plata/intermediate ports/Stockton
1847/1850 - La Plata/Antwerp/intermediate ports/New York
(1849)/Aux Cayes, Haiti
1851 - Para
1851/1852 - St Thomas/Santo Domingo
1852/1856 - Rio Grande do Sul/Antwerp/intermediate ports/Penryn,
England
1857/1861 - Buenos Aires/intermediate ports/Cardiff
1861/1862 - St Uebes (Setubal)/intermediate ports/Falmouth/
intermediate ports ...
The FORTUNA was wrecked on (Grand) Turk Island, in the Bahamas, in 1862
[Walter Kresse, ed., _Seeschiffs-Verzeichnis der Hamburger Reedereien,
1824-1888_, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum f"ur Hamburgische Geschichte, N.
F., Bd. 5. (Hamburg: Museum f"ur Hamburgische Geschichte, 1969), vol 2,
pp. 109-110, 113].