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A Brief History
The full-rigged* iron sailing frigate** EUGENIE was built at Hamburg by Reiherstieg Schiffswerfte & Maschinenfabrik in 1864/1865 for the Hamburg ship owner Robert Miles Sloman***. Eugenie was registered 2 June 1865. She weighed 697 net register tons, was 48.7 meters long, 8.8 meters in beam and 4.9 meters depth of hold.
The "Eugenie" was in the New York trade 1865-1867 and afterwards for several years in Australia and New Zealand. In 1888, Eugenie was converted into a bark****. At the end of the 19th century, she served as a Tramp*****. In late 1896 she was sold to Norwegian owners in Sandefjord. In 1906, Eugenie ran aground off Stockholm, Sweden, while on a voyage from Domsjo, Sweden to London with a cargo of wood chips. She was abandoned by her owners but was salvaged by the Neptun Salvage Company and re-sold in Stockholm. It is rumored that she served as a barge until World War II, when she was destroyed in the Battle of Narvik, Norway.
Lloyd's List reports movements under Capt Cohnbley: Hamburg from New York, 9 Aug 1867. Arrived 8 Oct: in 50N 27W (Hamburg for New York) 1 Nov: arrived New York. 25 Dec. 1867 arrived Antwerp from New York. Masters: Voyages:
* - Full-rigged: (of a sailing vessel) rigged as a ship; square-rigged on all of three or more masts.
** - Frigate: a fast naval vessel of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, generally having a lofty ship rig and heavily armed on one or two decks.
*** - Robert Miles Sloman: See Sloman links at left.
**** - Bark: a sailing vessel having three or more masts, square-rigged on all but the aftermost mast, which is fore-and-aft-rigged. Eugenie had her rear mast modified from square-rigged to fore-and-aft-rigged, mainly to reduce the manpower required to sail her.
***** - Tramp: Tramp ship means a ship that goes like a tramp from harbor to harbor, collecting cargo as best as she and the captain and the company can. Tramp steamers were the most common term, but saili8ng ships could do it as well. The opposite is 'line ships' - having a fixed line with a schedule. The tramps could be gone from their home harbors for years, going from one port to another, collecting new cargo for a new harbor further away, and on and on and on....
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