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The “Bremen Barque Fortuna” was the sailing vessel on which the George and Margaretha (Kraus) Schuetz family made the crossing of the Atlantic from Bremerhaven (which is the Port of Bremen) to the Port of New York in 1862.
Ship Name
A barque (also bark) is a sailing ship with from three to five masts, all of them square-rigged except the after mast, which is fore-and-aft rigged. (See The Free Dictionary by Farlex). There were many ships with the name “Fortuna”. From the above passenger manifest, the ship of interest was named “Bremen Barque Fortuna”.
Passages of the ship “Fortuna” From BremerHaven
| date | vessel’s name | Agency / shipping company | captain | destination | Number of passengers | Arrivals | Remarks | |||||||
| 05/21/1852 | Fortuna | Prussia | Long | new York | 127 | Jul 11 | ||||||||
| 04/19/1858 | Fortuna | Dewers, W. | Galveston | 67 | june 10 | |||||||||
| 09/22/1858 | Fortuna | Dewers, W. | Galveston | 78 | nov 25 | |||||||||
| 08/27/1860 | Fortuna | CLBrauer & Son | Dewers, W. | Galveston | 262 | Oct 29 | ||||||||
| 08/20/1862 | Fortuna | Franke | new York | 56 | ||||||||||
| 03/10/1865 | Fortuna | CL Brewer & Son | Friday | Galveston | 45 | |||||||||
| 05/03/1866 | Fortuna | CL Brewer & Son | Friday | Galveston | 169 | |||||||||
| 08/10/1867 | Fortuna | LL Brewer & Son | Freytag | Galveston | 229 | |||||||||
| 03/10/1868 | Fortuna | CL Brewer & Son | Freytag, G. | Galveston | 247 |
Information Source
Downloaded 13 Mar 2018 from Staats Archiv Bemen, Passagen des Schiffes “Fortuna” at http://212.227.236.244/auswanderung/abfahrtsdaten/passagen.php?s=s&v=Fortuna&lang=de
Notes
In the source list, there are additional passages listed for 1937-1936 by Nordd. Lloyd with destination Copenhagen. This is believed to be different ship also named “Fortuna” that was primarily for shipping cargo.
Ship History
No history for the “Bremen Barque Fortuna” could be found besides the above list of “Passages of the Ship “Fortuna“ From Bremerhaven”. From the above, it is presumed that the “Bremen Barque Fortuna” was built around 1852. For departures from Bremerhaven beginning in 1860, the Fortuna was apparently owned by the CL Bremer & Son shipping company. Most of the passages were from Bremerhaven to Galveston, Texas except two which were to the Port of New York. The ship carried various combinations of passengers and cargo.
Ship Picture
No picture of the “Bremen Barque Fortuna” was found. The following are images of two barque sailing vessels which were also named “Fortuna”.
The above painting illustrates that a “Barque” sailing vessel had from three to five masts, all of them square-rigged except the after mast, which is fore-and-aft rigged.
The following article describes one shipment by the above “Barque Fortuna” sailing vessel:
THE BARQUE FORTUNA.
Fortuna, barque, is to proceed to South Africa with a cargo of timber. She commenced taking in stlffleuling yesterday morning, The timber is being stowed in grating fashion for a depth of about 6ft. from the bottom, so that the vessel will rlde easier in a seaway than she would do if the timber wore stowed solid in the bottom The Fortuna having been accepted as flagship on Regalia Day, will be towed to an anchorago off the Domalu tomorrow morning.
Source: The Mercury (Tasmania) Tue 24 Jan 1899 Page 2 . Down loaded 12 Mar 2019 from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9439775
Transatlantic Crossing Time
As was noted in Chapter George and Margaretha (Kraus) Schuetz Immigration, the 1862 transatlantic crossing time was 6 weeks. A sailing vessel typically required 6 weeks of sailing but varied from less than 5 weeks to 8 weeks or more as reported in Statistics concerning the transatlantic crossing.