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Coaster Frieda

An unidentified coaster.. My restoration and digital hand colorization of an image in the J. Robert Boman´collection in the Swedish Maritime Museum archive. Date, location and name are not known. Her name seems to begin with the letters Fre, and the home port could be Hamburg. Maybe someone is able to identify this beauty? I would like to suggest that Boman took this photo in the early 1950s.

 

PS

Arne Jürgens provided this additional information:

"The pic shows the former german coaster FRIEDA, built in 1911 by Conrad Lühring at Hammelwarden. By the way, the picture was taken in the Kiel canal."

Some additional information from Ships Nostalgia:

1911 Conrad Lühring/ Hammelwarden as FRIEDRICH (No112) for F. Stutz, Brake - L*B= 26,68*5,82m, GT 103/ NRT 57

1914 ADELE, J.H. Winter, Hamburg

1924 vessel get a new motor/ 110hp (2 Cyl)

1935 KATHARINA, Dorothea Schneider, Hamburg

1936 FRIEDA, F. Pott, Hamburg

1936 vessel get a new motor/ 110hp (4 Cyl)

1952 lengthened, 34,24*5,82m/ GT 156/ tdw 250ts

1962 rebuilt and elevated: GT 175/ tdw 270ts

1971 in February sold to a dutch scrapyard

 

I have colorized a number of J. Robert Boman´s photos. This is how the Swedish Maritime Museum describes the man and his collection:

 

"The collection consists of approximately 15,000 photographs of cargo ships, especially smaller ones for coastal and inland waters. The photographs were taken by, or collected by, J. Robert Boman (1926-2002). Boman was born in Lugnvik in Ångermanland and graduated from Härnösand. After studying law and working as a civil servant, he eventually became a professor of procedural law at Uppsala University from 1972 to 1991."

 

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Uploaded on November 8, 2025