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Götheborg of Sweden is a sailing replica of the Swedish East Indiaman Götheborg I , launched in not to be confused with the larger Götheborg II built some decades later.
All sailors survived [ 6 ] when the original ship sank off Gothenburg , Sweden, on 12 September , while approaching the harbour on her return from a third voyage to China. Construction of the replica started in , with the hull launched in , and the rig fully tested for the first time in Much of the time was spent researching how to rebuild the replica.
In , Götheborg completed the first Baltic Sea Tour. On 26 April the Götheborg effected a rescue at sea, coming to the aid of a yacht that had lost its rudder and was adrift. Situated in Gothenburg, the company secured a year monopoly on far eastern trade, exchanging Swedish timber , tar , iron and copper for tea , porcelain and silk. The company existed for 82 years and its vessels made voyages using 37 different ships.
Ostindiefararen Götheborg - HISTORIEN OM ETT WRAK 1738-1992
Götheborg was built at the Terra Nova shipyard [ sv ] in Stockholm and launched in According to writer Björn Ahlander, it only took about one and a half years to build a ship of this size in the s. It was built in the Swedish capital and named Götheborg because the Swedish East India Company resided in Gothenburg, and all expeditions began and ended at this port. The ship had a tonnage equivalent to about t 1,, lb.
On its maiden voyage in , the ship carried 30 cannons and an initial crew of The ship made three journeys to China and in , it sank on its way into Gothenburg harbor. After 30 months at sea, and with only m 3, ft to go before the vessel reached its berth, it crashed into the Knipla Börö, a well known rock.
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Although it remains a mystery how this could happen theories abound. The ship remained stranded on the rock while much of the cargo, consisting of tea, porcelain, spices and silk was salvaged. The ship was clearly visible above the surface of the water for many years, but in time the remains sank to the bottom. It is still unclear what caused the ship to run aground due to the scarcity of contemporary written sources.
Götheborg had a very experienced pilot on board, Caspar Matthisson — from Brännö , who had been a pilot for seven and a half years at the time of the accident. Even so, the ship suddenly ran aground, or crashed into, the underwater rock the Hunnebådan —in the 18th century known as the Knipla Börö and later the Götheborgs-grundet "the Götheborg's rock" or the Ostindiebådarna "the East India shallow".
Ostindiefararen Götheborg III - How it all started.
Excerpt from a contemporary transcript of Captain Eric Moréen's ship's protest, 19 September The joint statement by captain Eric Moréen and the crew to the Göteborgs Rådhusrätt "the Municipal Court of Gothenburg" on the 19 September states that the weather on 12 September was fair and clear, the wind amenable and blowing from south-west or west-southwest.
These were ideal conditions since the wind would be coming almost straight from aft. Crossing the Rivöfjorden the ship met with the current from the northern part of Göta älv , Nordre älv. Navigation and sailing seems to have been correct up until the time of the accident. Sailing at a speed of 3 kn 3.
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The cause may have been a now almost forgotten hydrographic phenomenon called dead water. Hydrographic conditions at the mouth of the Göta älv in September , are well known. The discharge of the Göta älv was unusually large due to heavy snowfall during the winter of — The water level of Lake Vänern was also extremely high in These factors combined into an increase in the volume of fresh water flowing into the Älvsborgsfjorden , affecting the layers of fresh and salt water, making the conditions for dead water very favorable on 12 September Water temperature 6 °C 43 °F.
Weak currents. Visibility in the water: Depth 0—2 m 0. Depth 4 m 13 ft , visibility about 3 m 9.