Mneme

A four-masted barque built of steel in 1903 by J. Reid & Co., Port Glasgow, Scotland. Her dimensions are 94,67×13,2×7,47 meters [302'0×43'2×24'7] and with a tonnage of 2376 GRT and 2144 NRT. Rigged in jubilee fashion, i.e. with nothing above double top- and top-gallant sails.

1903 February 24: Launched at the shipyard of J. Reid & Co., Port Glasgow, for B. Wencke Söhne, Hamburg. Assigned the German identification signal RNCK. Her first master was Captain J. Hansen.
1905-1906: Captain P. Petersen.
1905 February 8 — April 28: Sailed from Port Talbot to Tocopilla with a cargo of coal in 79 days.
1905 July 5 — October 21: Sailed from Tocopilla to Hamburg with a cargo of nitrate in 103 days.
1905 December 3 — April 8: Sailed from Hamburg to San Pedro in 118 days.
1906 January 30: Sold to Rhederei Akt. Gesellschaft von 1896, Hamburg.
1906 May 2 — June 14: Sailed from San Pedro to Tocopilla in ballast in 44 days.
1906 July 15 — November 6: Sailed from Tocopilla to Rotterdam.
1906 November 27: Sold to F. Laeisz, Hamburg, and renamed Pommern.
1907 — 1912: The first master for the new owner's was Captain M. Allwardt.
1910 June 19 — September 6: Sailed from Hamburg to Valparaiso.
1910 November — Januari 21: Sailed from Tocopilla to Lizard in 77 days.
1911 Januari 26: Collided with the four-masted barque Engelhorn off Helgoland and was towed into Hamburg for repairs.
1913-1914: Captain J. Frömcke.
1914 February 2: The first mate Hans Iversen Ravn relieved Captain Frömcke of his command when the latter became insane.
1914 April 16 — July 3: Sailed from Antwerpen to Valparaiso in 79 days.
1916-1919: Laid up in Valparaiso during WWI.
1920 October 9 — March 1: Sailed with nitrate from Valparaiso to Delfzijl under Captain Ravn.
1921-1923: Handed over as war damage compensation to the Greek Government after the war and was subsequently laid up in Delfzijl.
1923 May 23: Sold to Gustaf Erikson, Mariehamn, Åland, for £ 3750 and was put on the Australia-Europe wheat trade.
1923-1924 June: Captain Valfrid Gustafsson.
1924 June - 1927 May: Captain Edvard Johnsson, Eckerö.
1927 May - 1933: Captain Carl Granith, Sund.
1928 April 29 -: Sailed with a cargo of 3257 tons of salt from Liverpool to Granville.
1928 August 14: Arrived to Sydney.
1928 December 15 - April 17: Sailed from Sydney with a cargo of wheat to Queenstown for orders in 122 days.
1929 July 25 - October 20: Sailed with a cargo of 1057 standards of deals from Larvik, Norway, to Melbourne in 87 days.
1930 February 5 - May 22: Sailed with a cargo of wheat from Wallaroo to Falmouth for orders in 104 days.
1932 October 2 - December 23: Sailed in ballast from Mariehamn to Port Victoria in 75 days from Copenhagen.
1933 February 11 - May 20: Sailed with a cargo of wheat from Port Victoria to Falmouth in 97 days.
1933 September - 1939: Captain Karl Broman.
1938 January 30 - July 26: Sailed with a cargo of 48.872 sacks of wheat at 41/6 per ton from Port Germain to Falmouth for orders in 118 days.
1938 September 24 - December 11: Sailed with 1000 tons of ballast from Belfast to Port Victoria in 78 days.
1939 March 20 - July 15: Sailed from Port Victoria via the Cape of Good Hope to Falmouth for orders in 117 days. The four-masted barque Olivebank which left Port Victoria on the same day arrived to Falmouth two days after Pommern.
1839 August 11 - 21: Sailed with 850 tons of ballast from Hull to Mariehamn in ten days.
1939: Laid up in Mariehamn during the war.
1944 July 9: Towed from Mariehamn to Stockholm, Sweden, to be used as a grain storage.
1945: Towed to Åbo/Turku, Finland, with a cargo of grain and subsequently towed to Mariehamn after the cargo had been discharged at Åbo.
1953: Presented by the Erikson family to the City of Mariehamn and made into a museum.
1968 March: Sprung a leak and had to be towed to Åbo to be drydocked and repaired at Wärtsilä.
1975 June: Exhibited in Stockholm and afterwards drydocked at the Finnboda Varv.
1987: Drydocked in Stockholm.
1996: Drydocked at the Beckholmens Varv, Stockholm.

Presently serving as a museum ship in Mariehamn.

Pictures:

At sea under tow [20 kB];
Bow and figurehead [19 kB].
At quay in Mariehamn. From Finlandia Net 2000.

Bibliography:

Four- and five masted ships, general references.
Clayson, Ernest R.: A Round Voyage in the s.v Pommern.
Sea Breezes Vol. XVIII (1934), pp 101-105, ill.
Jansen, Thorwald: Jungman Jansen går till sjöss.
Särtryck ur Salén-Nytt 1981:6-1982:5/6, Stockholm, 1983. ?? pp.
Svensson, Björn O.: Pommern, Mariehamn. Från lastdragare till museifartyg.
Söderström & C:o Förlags AB, Borgå, 1984. 8vo, 193 pp, ill.

Updated 1999-10-11 by Lars Bruzelius.

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