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Lofoten, voilier Anna Rogde
Lofoten, voilier Anna Rogde
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ANNA ROGDE AF HARSTAD Anna Rogde is a flat - topped schooner with two masts.
She was launched August 20, 1868, under the name of Anna af Bergen. Rigging for fore - and aft sail was completed the following year.
The boat has a typical clipper hull and was built by Sigbjørn Birkeland from Bakke in Hordaland for a co-operative shipping company.
The freight business was expanding rapidly at the time Anna af Bergen was built. Perishable products such as fruit, tea and fish called for better ships which could get things to the markets faster. This led builders away from the prevailing rounded and flat hulls that sailed poorly in favor of more streamlined ones. This new type of schooner was also better at negotiating the skerries and islets, and it required a smaller crew than the former square-sailed boats.
The newly-developed boats thus reduced both sailing costs and sailing time.
In 1872 the Hardanger shipper Isak Rogde purchased the vessel. The following year he moved to Kjøtta near Harstad and there started a family shipping business with the Anna Rogde that spanned three generations and continued until 1972.
The ship has made several trips to Spain, Portugal, and other lands on the Atlantic coast and on the Baltic Sea. Most of its sailing, however, has been in northerly waters, as far north as Archangelsk and Murmansk.
There have also been dramatic moments, such as in 1889 when Anna Rogde was in a hurricane off the coast of Finnmark. The storm destroyed the rigging and the shipper had to order the mast cut down. But Anna Rogde made it though that time, too!
One is filled with great awe when one remembers the conditions under which sailors of tha time lived: Vessels were driven by the wind; there was no communication between the ship and land; hudrographic charts were quite inaccurate; and the network of lighthouses was not built up in the North.
The sextant was the only intrument they had.
In 1919 Anna Rogde received a one-cylinder Bolinder motor with 40 hp which functioned as makeshift when there was no wind. A wheelhouse was built; the main mast was shortened; and the foresail was fitted with a derrick.
The ship was laid up in 1972 by Per and Wilhelm Rogde, after having been used in freighting continuously since 1868.
The Anna Rogde is probably the oldest schooner in the world. She is a year older than the famous Cutty Sark.
Anna Rogde has now been returned to Harstad and is a beatiful attraction for the whole area. She has permanent anchorage at the Cultural Center wharf in Harstad
Lofoten, voilier Anna Rogde
Lofoten, voilier Anna Rogde
www.annarogde.no/default.asp?cmd=60
ANNA ROGDE AF HARSTAD Anna Rogde is a flat - topped schooner with two masts.
She was launched August 20, 1868, under the name of Anna af Bergen. Rigging for fore - and aft sail was completed the following year.
The boat has a typical clipper hull and was built by Sigbjørn Birkeland from Bakke in Hordaland for a co-operative shipping company.
The freight business was expanding rapidly at the time Anna af Bergen was built. Perishable products such as fruit, tea and fish called for better ships which could get things to the markets faster. This led builders away from the prevailing rounded and flat hulls that sailed poorly in favor of more streamlined ones. This new type of schooner was also better at negotiating the skerries and islets, and it required a smaller crew than the former square-sailed boats.
The newly-developed boats thus reduced both sailing costs and sailing time.
In 1872 the Hardanger shipper Isak Rogde purchased the vessel. The following year he moved to Kjøtta near Harstad and there started a family shipping business with the Anna Rogde that spanned three generations and continued until 1972.
The ship has made several trips to Spain, Portugal, and other lands on the Atlantic coast and on the Baltic Sea. Most of its sailing, however, has been in northerly waters, as far north as Archangelsk and Murmansk.
There have also been dramatic moments, such as in 1889 when Anna Rogde was in a hurricane off the coast of Finnmark. The storm destroyed the rigging and the shipper had to order the mast cut down. But Anna Rogde made it though that time, too!
One is filled with great awe when one remembers the conditions under which sailors of tha time lived: Vessels were driven by the wind; there was no communication between the ship and land; hudrographic charts were quite inaccurate; and the network of lighthouses was not built up in the North.
The sextant was the only intrument they had.
In 1919 Anna Rogde received a one-cylinder Bolinder motor with 40 hp which functioned as makeshift when there was no wind. A wheelhouse was built; the main mast was shortened; and the foresail was fitted with a derrick.
The ship was laid up in 1972 by Per and Wilhelm Rogde, after having been used in freighting continuously since 1868.
The Anna Rogde is probably the oldest schooner in the world. She is a year older than the famous Cutty Sark.
Anna Rogde has now been returned to Harstad and is a beatiful attraction for the whole area. She has permanent anchorage at the Cultural Center wharf in Harstad