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Brandvik
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 Posted - 18/06/2021 : 21:23:21
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| I was wondering if there is a Norwegian registry of boats or articles from the early 1900's along with information about those boats lost at sea. My grandfather, Knut Brandvik and his brother Mathias Brandvik were ship builders in Stord, Norway. They had a ship named Wergeland, after the poet, Henrik Wergeland. The boat was a 55 ton and had a cutter stern. It sank in a storm near a lighthouse in Bergen, Norway. That is all the information I have and was interested in finding more about this boat and incident. |
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Kåarto
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jkmarler
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Posted - 19/06/2021 : 01:21:46
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Sjohistorie.no is a place to search for ship and sailor information. There are about 12 ships with various forms of the name Wergeland, but none are listed as built by Brandvik.
Many Norwegian newspapers are searchable here:
nb.no
Knut Brandvik is mentioned in the Stord bygdebok online at nb, maybe this notorious event gets mentioned, too? Anyone with access want to look?
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Edited by - jkmarler on 19/06/2021 01:30:38 |
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jkmarler
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ToreL
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Posted - 19/06/2021 : 09:48:12
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Note that the vessel is described as a cutter, in agreement with the OP information. It is also being sold "as is", sunk at Tollbodene (by the customs offices) at Bergen harbor. The weight is 45 tons, as opposed to 55, but more importantly it is said to be English built.
The vessel Wergeland (this time described as a slupp; a smaller kind of cutter) is also mentioned in a Bergen newspaper article of 26 January 1907, concerning several incidents during a recent storm. (A customs officer declared that this was the worst storm he had witnessed during his 18 years of service.) It appears that Wergeland had sunk in the storm while moored by the customs offices at the harbor. The boat is described as "probably from Hardanger". Hardanger is an area South of Bergen around the Hardanger fjord, which with some good will can be said to extend West to the smaller neighboring island Huglo of the island Stord. The Brandvik farms are located on Huglo.
It seems unlikely that two ships of approximately the same (moderate) size and with the same name would be operating in the same area at the same time.
So how do these dates match your information? |
Edited by - ToreL on 19/06/2021 17:01:54 |
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ToreL
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Posted - 19/06/2021 : 15:18:06
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| Tollbodkaiene are located in the outer part of Bergen harbor, by the customs offices. Both newspaper articles indicate that Wergeland had sunk there. And here and here are two photos with the title To seilfartøyer knust av stormen 25.01.1907. Ved Tollbodkaiene. Seilfartøy means sailing vessel and knust means crushed/splintered. |
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jkmarler
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Posted - 19/06/2021 : 15:28:42
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One of the dozen or so Wergeland vessels at Sjohistorie.no was built in Ryfylke in 1877 with home port of Stavanger:
https://www.sjohistorie.no/en/skip/13663/
But with a mournful end translated by Google Translate:
[1895] Left Bergen in January for the north coast of France and disappeared with the entire crew. |
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ToreL
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Posted - 19/06/2021 : 17:29:19
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| Clip from a Stavanger newspaper 1905, reporting from the mackerel fisheries, mentioning the slup "Wergeland af Huglen", i.e. Wergeland of Huglen. Huglen is Huglo i old/Danish writing. (Again, Huglo is a small neighboring island of Stord, often administratively included in Stord.) |
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ToreL
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Posted - 19/06/2021 : 17:47:07
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| Clip from the newspaper Søndhordland published at Leirvik in Stord, 30.01.1907, with quite conclusive indications that the slupp/kutter sunk at Bergen harbor five days earlier is the one you are searching. This time, the weight is given as 55 tons, exactly matching your information, and accoring to the newspaper's information, the ship was owned partly by people at Tysnes and partly by people at Huglo. |
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Brandvik
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Posted - 19/06/2021 : 18:22:49
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| Thank you all for your assistance, I am sure this is the boat in question. I put that it was built by Brandvik, it was not, it was Mathias Lokhammar (Laukhammar) who lived in Stord. |
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ToreL
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Posted - 22/06/2021 : 12:34:59
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The original question has not been answered, about registries of boats. At the time there were several local ship registers. The "Wergeland" may have been registered in Bergen, Stavanger or Haugesund, but I would have tried Bergen first. The register for Bergen covering the period 1903-1992 is now kept at the National archives branch in Bergen. It is not digitized, but is available for inspection in the reading room. In cases when the information one is looking for is easlily recovered, the staff may be contacted to find it for you, eliminating a visit in persona.
https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/no-a1450-07000000084576?ins=SAB |
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